News Quiz for May 12, 2008


Q: What attention-getting step did relatives and career advisers persuade Miami Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor to take off the field?

A. Appear on 'Dancing With the Stars'

B. Appear in a Hollywood feature film

C. Appear in a music video

D. Appear in TV ads for men's skin care items
Q: Students at the private St. Andrew's High School in Boca Raton formed a nonprofit group that sponsored a Miami concert last week featuring Kanye West, Rihanna, N.E.R.D. and Lupe Fiasco. Where will money raised be used?

A. Haiti

B. Zimbabwe

C. Darfur

D. Tibet
Q: Miami-Dade County officials have given a tentative OK for a Fort Lauderdale builder to erect a gigantic environmental billboard where?

A. Alongside the Intercoastal Waterway

B. Next to the Overseas Highway (U.S. 1)

C. In the Evergaldes

D. Underwater in the Atlantic
Q: Twelve young violin students from the Music Institute of Weston were in a South Miami recording studio last week for a CD project with a message about . . .

A. Avoiding drugs

B. Mideast peace

C. Safety helmets

D. Diversity and racial harmony
Q: What's unusual about a South Florida singer's new YouTube video of a song called Maybe, Just Maybe about the environment and global warming.

A. He taped it underwater

B. He wears a wacky penguin costume

C. He's 70 years old

D. He sings it to well-known Miamians


Find the answers online at http://nieonline.com/miami/