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Posted on Sat, Sep 1, 2012 : 10:12 a.m.

News Quiz: Test your news knowledge

By Ann Dwyer

A man called the cops when he found that the contractor he had hired demanded a higher price after he gave them his money. What had he hired the contractor to do?

A) Renovate his kitchen
B) Kill his wife
C) Have sex with him
D) Supply him with crack

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Photo courtesy of U-M

An Ypsilanti Township man was smart enough to do what when the police came to his house?

A) Call his lawyer
B) Sic his pit bull on them
C) Realize they weren't actually cops
D) Shoot at them

What is that guy riding in the photo?

A) A trike decked out with super-bass speakers
B) A trike with a PA system used for Obama's campaign
C) An ice-cream trike
D) A trike used to capture footage for Google Earth

Turns out the DDA has a unique way of making tens of thousands of dollars. What is it?

A) Charging students for "moving in" parking
B) People who pay for parking on Sundays
C) Deals made with tow companies
D) People paying meters after 6 p.m.

Answers: 1-C, 2-B, 3-D, 4-D

Comments

Morris

Sun, Sep 2, 2012 : 1:05 p.m.

That is trivia, not news worthy of Ann Arbor. The police blotter is easy, but there has to be more to the world.

Jim Osborn

Sun, Sep 2, 2012 : 12:21 p.m.

"People paying meters after 6 p.m." What grammar standards do we have here? And what is wrong wih answer "B"; "B) People who pay for parking on Sundays", which is also true, and a better constructed sentence.