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Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.
1) Who is doing what in the above photo?
A) Wilson Zuckerman is distributing incense at the opening of a new meditation center inside the former Roger’s Barn on Winthrop Avenue
B) Harold Melvin is handing out samples of his Blue Note home cocktail-mixture devices at a product debut event at New Haven Museum
C) Andrew Rubenoff is passing out tambourines at the Mardi Gras ball at the public library
D) Unidentified volunteer is offering guests unidentified “experience enhancers” at a Pirate’s Ball Jimmy Buffett tribute at Toad’s Place
2) 33.37% of New Haven’s housing units is classified as“affordable,” according to the most recent state statistics. What is the figure for Branford?
A) 3.19%
B) 5.2%
C) 8.5%
D) 13%
E) 33.37%
F) State didn’t bother calculating
3) Science Park-based Arvinas got FDA “fast-track” designation to develop a new cancer drug called …
A) Indegestant
B) Vanqwest
C) Vegeanaise
D) ARV-D2
E) Vepdegestant
F) Palsant
4) Tirzah Kemp has a new job running a City Hall department. Which one?
A) Weights & measures
B) Parks & recreation
C) Bridge maintenance
D) Community resilience
E) Human resources
5) What is Made In Greenwood?
A) A new documentary production company
B) A new recycled-wood furniture company
C) A new Hill-based music label
D) A new smoke shop
E) A new local-business label
6) What reason did Hopkins School give for suspending its associate director of annual and reunion giving and barring him from campus?
A) He allegedly missed two months of work
B) His wife “engaged in a march to advocate for a ceasefire” and “used antisemitic language” in social media posts and online video
C) He allegedly revealed confidential information about potential donors
D) He was quoted in The New York Times praising the Hamden Hall rugby team
E) No reason was given
7) Who spoke where this week about “looking for seams in the propertized world”?
A) The Connecticut Tenants Union in a release about organizing the city’s 5th local
B) Poet Ross Gay at a reading at Possible Futures bookstore
C) U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro at a labor history association event about Wooster Square garment workers
D) Yale geologist William Frasier at an Earth & Planetary Sciences symposium on fracking
8) How much has the rent risen at Fair Haven Heights’ Sunset Ridge apartment complex since a private equity firm purchased it last June?
A) Up to 10%
B) Up to 27%
C) Up to 45%
D) Up to 55%
E) Up to 66%
9) What is one reason Spinnaker Realty’s Clay Fowler gave for his company renewing consideration of building a hotel instead of apartments at the vacant Orange-Elm lot?
A) The city’s market-rate apartment market has collapsed
B) He doesn’t want competition for apartments Spinnaker has been building nearby on Audubon and on South Orange
C) His company wants to diversify its portfolio
D) 195 Church is too ugly a building to live near
E) The city’s inclusionary zoning ordinance has made it more difficult to secure financing to build new apartments
10) What would New Haven like to spend $553,000 on with the help of a state grant?
A) A second electric garbage truck
B) HVAC systems to replace systems at 2 schools destroyed by neglected maintenance
C) New pickleball courts in Kensington Park
D) A state-of-the-art sound system for press conferences on City Hall’s second floor
E) A Newhallville museum featuring the work of leather artist Winfred Rembert
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 Library Fetes Fat Tuesday
2) A Housing Authority Branches Out To Branford
3) E Arvinas Moves Ahead With 2 New Drugs
4) D City Hires New “Resilience” Chief
5) D New Biz, Made In Greenwood
6) B Hopkins Suspends Protester’s Spouse
7) B Ross Gay Incites Joy
8) C Tenants To Fair Rent: Hear Our Cases
9) E Hotel Might Come To Ex-Webster Lot After All
10 A City Seeking 2nd Electric Garbage Truck
