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CBC Ottawa news quiz for the week of Oct. 3
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1What did Mayor Jim Watson declare his opposition to this week, calling the idea a "draconian" measure?
- ACancelling next year's Panda Game.
- BLaunching a fraud investigation into the consortium that built LRT.
- CSlashing the police force's 2022 budget.
- DClosing down schools due to rising COVID-19 case totals.
2What has Philadelphia-based company TRA Inc. been hired to do for the City of Ottawa?
- AReview the plan to return LRT trains to service.
- BDesign the interior of the future central library branch.
- CConnect infrastructure to the future Tewin suburb.
- DCreate a 25-year master plan for the future of Bank Street.
3What unexpected discovery greeted Anuj Mittal when he and his wife showed up at their new Barrhaven home last month?
- AAnother family was already living in it.
- BSomeone had plastered it with vulgar graffiti.
- CA small meteorite had crashed through the roof.
- DThe home had no floors.
4Gilbert Dardel, mayor of the small village of Namur, Que., explained this week why council rejected a plan to build which of the following structures in the municipality?
- AA 54-storey luxury condo tower.
- BA new training base for the Canadian military.
- CA wind-and-solar farm that would provide one-sixteenth of Quebec's power.
- DA Church of Scientology retreat.
5In a French-language interview, La Pêche, Que., resident Nicolas Dupont told Radio-Canada this week that he was "clearly the victim of a premeditated sabotage." What happened?
- AHundreds of people showed up for a party at his Airbnb rental.
- BA suspected arsonist burned down his family's sugar shack.
- CA former employee destroyed his café's $9,000 espresso machine.
- DSomeone using his name attempted to defraud the municipality.
6Ontario's police watchdog laid two charges this week against Ottawa patrol officer Const. Sundeep Singh. One was breach of trust. What was the other?
- ASexual assault.
- BForgery.
- CDangerous driving causing death.
- DFraud over $5,000.
7Maude Marquis-Bissonnette is one of six people in the running to take over which of the following positions?
- AMayor of Gatineau.
- BWarden of the MRC des Collines-de-l'Outaouais.
- CCouncillor for Ottawa's Kanata North ward.
- DCEO of the National Capital Commission.
8Why did Jason Baker resign this week as the mayor of Brockville, Ont.?
- AHe'd moved to a new home and no longer lived in the city.
- BSocial media attacks were having a negative effect on his mental health.
- CHe'd accepted his dream job as a landscape architect.
- DHis daughter's country music career is taking off and he wanted to support her.
9This man, seen here after his 2009 arrest, had an appeal of his conviction tossed out Thursday. What was he found guilty of doing?
- AStabbing an Ottawa police constable to death.
- BBurning down a historic restaurant in the ByWard Market.
- CPlotting to carry out a terrorist attack on Parliament Hill.
- DKilling an Ottawa judge, his wife, and their neighbour.
10These early 20th-century artifacts were uncovered during recent remediation work on land that used to be a city dump. What's the land's current use?
- AA west-of-downtown park.
- BA construction site for a future LRT station.
- CA community garden in Old Ottawa South.
- DAn embassy building near the Rideau River.
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- How closely did you follow the past week in local news?
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