Kimberly Wipfler Photo
See Question #9.
Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.
1) Yale continued its downtown buying spree, paying $139.6 million to gobble the 300 George St. building, which currently generates taxes for the city. What was the building’s previous use before becoming lab/research/office space?
A) The original Ashley’s ice cream outlet
B) Knight of Columbus insurance claim processing center
C) SNET call center
D) Sargent precision hardware manufacturing facility
E) Orange Julius distribution center
2) The Elicker administration put the registrar of vital statistics on leave pending an investigation into how she ran the office. Which of the following is not among the records the office handles?
A) Births
B) Pet licenses
C) Marriages
D) Deaths
E) Legal name changes
3) Immigrant-rights activists at a City Hall hearing argued for the city to do what?
A) Plan now for a welcome and pipeline-to-work plan for a new potential wave of immigrants coming north after crossing the southern border
B) Redesign municipal ID cards to include flags of holders’ countries of origin
C) Prepare a legal response now in case Donald Trump gets reelected and follows through on a vow to enlist local police departments to identify undocumented immigrants to ship to deportation camps
D) Create a city immigrant small-business initiative
E) Create a city Office of Immigrant Affairs
F) Launch an annual Immigrant Pride Day parade
4) Who this week said, “I’ve seen ceilings caving in, windows rusted out”?
A) LCI chief Arlevia Samuel in reference to code inspections of megalandlord-owned Section 8 housing.
B) Newhallville Alder-Elect Brittiany Mabery-Niblack about knocking on doors of voters in megalandlord-owned Section 8 housing.
C) Nick DiMaria previewing a new song about housing conditions, at his weekly gig at Nolo on State Street.
D) A tenant union representation during a Fair Rent Commission hearing on a megalandlord-owned Section 8 apartment building.
E) An unidentified Spring Street tenant at the latest meeting of the Hill North Community Management Team.
F) Aaron Jafferis reading his latest work at the latest “Free 2 Spit” open mic at the People’s Center.
5) Whom did embattled criminal defense attorney Rick Silverstein hire to represent him in an effort to save his career by contesting a judge’s suspension of his law license?
A) John Williams
B) Shelley White
C) F. Lee Bailey
D) Norm Pattis
E) Bill Bloss
F) Judge Judy
6) New Haven-born TV producer Norman Lear died this week at the age of 101. Which of the following shows did he not create or produce?
A) Rhoda
B) Maude
C) All In The Family
D) The Jeffersons
E) Good Times
F) Sanford and Son
7) What approach is Metropolitan Business Academy’s Dylan Senderoff taking to teach his students French?
A) Immersive dialogue and game-playing
B) A grammar and spelling focus
C) Reading comprehension through single-paragraph printed text samples
D) Translating English-language and French-language rap and pop lyrics
E) Having students write original film scripts in French
8) City officials announced that the federal government is sending New Haven $2 million to …
A) Update coastal flooding maps
B) Add a natural foods court at Tweed New Haven Airport’s terminal
C) Retrain teachers in “balanced literacy” reading instruction
D) Expand a program for helping newly released ex-offenders reintegrate into society
E) Rent space for government offices in the soon-to-be-tax-exempt 300 George St. office building
9) Vincent Mauro Jr. is leaving his day job as State Senate chief of staff to …
A) Serve as chief New England marketing chief for DraftKings sports betting operation
B) Return to cohosting “Cannoli & Knish Sports Hour” on WNHH FM
C) Lobby the state legislature for national law firm McCarter & English
D) Write a monthly column for Cigar Aficionado
E) Devote full time to chairing New Haven’s Democratic Town Committee
F) Work as sommelier at Portofino’s Restaurant & Bar on State Street
G) All of the above
10) Approximately what percentage of grades given to Yale undergraduates were A or A‑minus in the the 2021 – 2 academic year?
A) 67
B) 73
C) 82
D) 87
E) 95
F) 100
G) 0
Karen Ponzio Photo
11) Who is doing what in this photo?
A) Local artist Rhonda Vizz is painting a self-portrait in a weekly art class offered at Firehouse 12
B) Tess Schober is painting a portrait of Patti Smith at an art-and-music event at Cafe Nine
C) Visiting Yale political science professor Valerie Plame is grading end-of-semester A and occasional A‑minus student final papers
D) Painting instructor Rhonda Danger is leading a pop-up event at KNOWN coworking space
E) Pretenders Fan Club President Jane “Chrissy” Willis is hosting a chapter happy hour at New West Cafe
Answers to the puzzle, along with links to the relevant news stories, appear after the following podcast of a “Headlines and Basslines” segment (music and more headline talk) of WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven” program. (Click here to subscribe or here to listen to other episodes of Dateline New Haven.)
Answers
1) C Yale Buys Lab-Office Building for 139.6M
2) B Vital Statistics Registrar Placed On Leave
3) E Advocates To City: Be Bold Again on Immigrant Rights
4) B New Alders Prepare To Dial Downtown
5) D Pattis Slams Judge on Silverstein Suspension
6) A Norman Lear, Whose Comedies Changed the Face of TV, Is Dead at 101
7) A Monsieur Senderoff’s Students Speak, Play, Learn
8) D Anti-Recidivism Program Lands $2M
9) C Mauro to Join McCarter & English Government Affairs Team in Hartford
10) C Nearly Everyone Gets A’s at Yale. Does That Cheapen the Grade?
11) B Artists Create Sound And Vision At Cafe Nine
