Unreal News Challenge 2006

D) Market-priced steroids

A) Meat Loaf

B) Sammy Hagar

C) Ian Anderson

D) Axl Rose

27) During Chuck Berry's 80th birthday celebration at Blueberry Hill in October, who joined him onstage?

A) Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards

B) Real life "Johnny B. Goode" Johnnie Johnson

C) Son Volt singer Jay Farrar

D) Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry

28) On the morning of April 26, Miller Brewing hired a pilot to buzz arch-rival Anheuser-Busch's headquarters in an airplane. What words were emblazoned on the banner the airplane was pulling?

A) "Tastes bad, more filling"

B) "Miller Lite: 2006 World Beer Cup Winner!"

C) "Sire, Sire, Pants on Fire"

D) "Jay-Z is wack"

29) In October Cardinals players David Eckstein and Jeff Suppan, along with Mike Sweeney of the Kansas City Royals, identified themselves in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch print ad as "athletes with moral convictions" and announced their opposition to what issue?

A) The use of animal fur to make coats

B) The war in Iraq

C) Missouri's stem cell initiative

D) Steroid use in baseball

30) During arguments on the floor of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen in January, Alderman Freeman Bosley Sr. was quoted thus: "Here I am with my ten-year-old and they're playing some of the most foul music you ever heard. They're not playing Mozart. They're not playing Paganini. They're not playing anything that you would really want to hear." To what was Bosley referring?

A) A reunited Black Artists Group, which played dissonant free jazz in the City Hall rotunda

B) Drivers who cruise the streets jamming hip-hop at full volume

C) A city-sanctioned rave at Kiener Plaza

D) A Wiggles concert at the Fox Theatre

31) In February sixteen people were arrested on suspicion of stealing thousands of dollars' worth of equipment from Dick's Sporting Goods in Des Peres. Among those charged were members of which area sports team?

A) Fontbonne University chess team

B) Washington University lacrosse team

C) University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball team

D) Vashon High School basketball team

32) In March then-KTRS (550 AM) morning-show personality Dave Lenihan was kicked off the air for accidentally uttering an inappropriate remark about U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. What did Lenihan inadvertently call Rice?

A) "A nasty dyke"

B) "A gap-toothed tool"

C) "A stupid ho"

D) "A big coon"

33) In December a St. Louis man was shot by his wife after she became upset when he delivered her a warm beer. What brand of beer was it?

A) Schlafly Coffee Stout

B) Stag

C) Colt 45 Malt Liquor

D) Budweiser Select

34) Who is the superintendent of the St. Louis Public Schools?

A) Veronica O'Brien

B) Creg Williams

C) Diana Bourisaw

D) Vincent Schoemehl

35) What is the name of the power company that serves most of the St. Louis metropolitan area?

A) AmerenUE

B) LamerenUE