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Test your news knowledge in The Berkshire Eagle news quiz.
Questions and Answers
- 1.Massachusetts has legalized casino gambling, but the latest estimate puts the opening of the Bay State's first casino when?
- A.
2014
- B.
2015
- C.
2016
- D.
2017
- 2.The Eagle's letter to the editor section has been blowing up over the politically pejorative term "useful idiots." What is the first documented use of that term in the U.S.?
- A.
Hillary Clinton's 1996 book, "It Takes a Village"
- B.
A 1981 "Saturday Night Live" skit
- C.
A New York Times article in 1948
- D.
A 1952 speech by Joseph McCarthy
- 3.Berkshire County's October unemployment rate was higher than the rates both nationally and statewide. True or false?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.In the Thanksgiving Day game, the New England Patriots scored three touchdowns in the span of how many seconds?
- A.
52
- B.
58
- C.
62
- D.
71
- 5.The medical marijuana referendum that Massachusetts voters passed earlier this month will allow certain patients to grow pot on their property. True or false?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Abundant in the Berkshires, the width of the woolly bear caterpillar’s reddish-brown band indicates what?
- A.
A wet summer is ahead
- B.
It will be a cold winter
- C.
The age of the caterpillar
- D.
It's a Denver Broncos fan
- 7.An Otis homeowners association recently set aside land specifically to build the habitat to accomodat what nearly endangered species?
- A.
The harpoon clubtail dragonfly
- B.
The mountain lion
- C.
The hairy-fruited sedge
- D.
The New England cottontail rabbit
- 8.Pittsfield's Christmas tree-lighting celebration will be held when?
- A.
Friday, Nov. 30
- B.
Saturday, Dec. 1
- C.
Sunday, Dec. 2
- D.
Monday, Dec. 3
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