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1) The Catholic Diocese closed these two elementary schools and moved students to the Kateri Academy on the Cardinal Stritch campus.
a) St. Jerome and St. Thomas The Doubter
b) St. Jerome and St. Thomas Aquinas
2) George Pollauf, Owens Community College payroll specialist, has not missed a payroll in nearly 25 years, a total of 646 consecutive pay periods. He is known as:
a) The Rip Van Winkle of payroll specialists
b) The Cal Ripken of payroll specialists
3) This actress, who visited our area, was known during the Vietnam War as “every GI’s favorite blonde bombshell.”
a) Barbie Benton
b) Chris Noel
4) Keith Sadler barricaded himself in his home in this town to protest the home foreclosure process.
a) Stony Ridge
b) Rocky Ridge
5) More than 50,000 visitors came this spring to Northwest Ohio for this event.
a) The biggest Week in American Birding Festival
b) Opening game for the Toledo Mud Hens
6) Jodi Woessner, a Lake graduate, has been setting records in this professional sport.
a) Women’s golf
b) Women’s bowling
7) This nationally known group has taken to the streets of East Toledo to fight crime.
a) The Hell’s Angels
b) The Guardian Angels
8) Crystal Bowersox, our American Idol, may make her home in Elliston, but she attended elementary school here.
a) Toledo School for the Arts
b) Rocky Ridge
9) This local high school team won a state baseball championship in 1939.
a) The Pemberville Redmen
b) The Olney Rangers
10) E. Toledo business owner Rob Croak employs 65 people in a new business that is shipping 150 cartons a day of this hot new product.
a) Silly Bandz
b) Silly Putty
11) This spring, this school won its first TAAC championship in baseball.
a) Northwood
b) Cardinal Stritch
12) The tornado that struck Wood and Ottawa Counties on June 5, 2010 was of this magnitude.
a) 8.7 on the Richter Scale
b) EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita
13) This local school won its second consecutive Ohio State Division II Track Championship.
a) Eastwood
b) Woodmore
14) In 2009, this community issued 1,457 speeding tickets, more than twice as much as the largest suburb in the Eastern Maumee Bay Area.
a) Woodville
b) Northwood
15) Governor Ted Strickland has asked President Obama to construct a barrier to keep this invasive species out of the Great Lakes.
a) The Walking Snakehead Fish
b) Asian Carp
16) This school has won 15 straight SLL all-sports trophies.
a) Eastwood
b) Genoa
Answers: 1.b; 2.b; 3.b; 4.a; 5.a; 6.b; 7.b; 8.b; 9.a; 10.a; 11.a; 12.b; 13.a; 14.b; 15.b; 16.a.
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