1. Some East Rowan High students missed lunch completely or found themselves sitting on the cafeteria floor during the first days of school. What led to these lunchtime problems?

A. Scheduling conflicts with Individual Learning Time

B. Mandatory fire drills

C. An unexpected visit to the school by Justin Timberlake

D. The filming of an education-related documentary for PBS

2. All residents have moved out of the old Civic Park Apartments, and Phase I of a new mix of public housing and low-income affordable housing has been built along Brenner Avenue near Standish Street. What’s the name of this new housing?

A. Salisbury Hills

B. Civic Park Village

C. Brenner Crossing

D. Standish Miles

3. Kristen Sabia is the first lower school principal for what school in Rowan County?

A. North Hills Christian School

B. Salisbury Academy

C. Rockwell Christian

D. Sacred Heart Catholic School

4. Salisbury native Liza Towell Boyd, now a resident of Camden, S.C., recently won her third consecutive USHJA International Hunter Derby Championship. What is the name of the horse she has ridden in each of those championships?

A. Vertigo

B. Brunello

C. Indigo

D. Santiago

5. Disabled American Veterans Chapter 96 is trying to raise $1,225 toward the finishing design wrap and detailing of a 2009 Ford Explorer. What does the DAV Chapter use the Explorer for?

A. To provide transportation for its members to and from the monthly DAV meetings

B. To provide members with transportation to Catawba College and Livingstone College football games

C. To take DAV members on shopping trips to Concord Mills

D. To provide transportation for disabled veterans to the Hefner VA Medical Center in Salisbury

6. Food Lion, Catawba College and Open Road Media recently partnered to produce a 50-minute documentary on the life and business career of Food Lion co-founder Ralph Ketner. Food Lion started out as Food Town in what year?

A. 1937

B. 1947

C. 1957

D. 1967

7. The Deal family, owners of the Circle D Farm in southwestern Rowan County, recently won area and district awards a second time for what.

A. Dairy Farming Family of the Year

B. Soybean Growers Family of the Year

C. Conservation Farm Family of the Year

D. 4-H Family of the Year

8. Duke University’s MURDOCK Study in Kannapolis recently helped a scientist at the University of North Carolina Nutrition Research Institute find subjects for an ongoing study involving what?

A. Childhood diabetes

B. Multiple sclerosis

C. Lou Gehrig’s disease

D. Male fertility

9. The Rowan County Planning Board rejected a rezoning this past week that would have allowed the location of what business in the Liberty community of southeastern Rowan County?

A. A CVS drugstore

B. A Dollar General

C. A used car lot

D. A bait shop

10. During a recent informational meeting for Salisbury City Council candidates, it came to light that Police Chief Rory Collins has a second, part-time job. Who does he work for?

A. A private security firm

B. The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office

C. Walmart

D. Salisbury Housing Authority

ANSWERS

1. A. East Rowan High students were finding it hard to combine their Individual Learning Time activities with the 30 minutes they were allotted for lunch.

2. C. Brenner Crossing will ultimately provide 170 apartments, 80 of which will be public housing units.

3. A. Sabia has been a student, teacher and now lower school principal at North Hills Christian School.

4. B. Brunello is a 17-year-old gelding Boyd has ridden in their championship runs.

5. D. The DAV chapter will be providing transportation for its members to the VA, so they can make their appointments.

6. C. Food Town started in 1957 with one store, located at Ketner Center in Salisbury.

7. C. The Deal family won the area and district competitions for Conservation Farm Family of the Year, an award the family also won in the 1980s.

8. D. Dr. Summer Goodson with the UNC Nutrition Research Institute relied on the MURDOCK Study for help in identifying 13 men who have the genetic variant she studies in relation to male fertility.

9. B. Many residents from the Liberty community spoke at a recent Planning Board meeting against a proposed rezoning for a Dollar General.

10. D. Collins confirmed he is working part-time for the Salisbury Housing Authority.