From: David H. Weiner, President, CWA Local 1081
Date: May 27, 2008
Re: No 164th CWA Local 1081 E-mail Trivia Contest Winner
Unfortunately, no members of CWA Local 1081 won last week’s Email Trivia Contest. Most responding members either failed to respond to the first part of question #2 or incorrectly answered question #5. Play again this week!
The auto industry’s longest strike in more than 40 years, a walkout at a parts supplier that disrupted production at 32 General Motors plants, will end within days if the picketing workers ratify a tentative agreement reached late Friday with their employer and their Union. Names both the employer and the Union.
Answer: American Axle and Manufacturing. United Automobile Workers.
Big Brown soared to a five-and-a-quarter-length victory in the 133rd running of the Preakness Stakes. Horse enthusiasts have plenty to be excited about as Big Brown joins which horses from which respective years winning at Preakness as the only colts who headed to the Belmont Stakes undefeated and trying for the Triple Crown. Which of those three colts managed to cement that piece of sports immortality?
Answer: Majestic Prince (1969), Seattle Slew (1977) and Smarty Jones (2004). Seattle Slew.
The founders of which clothing label recently staged a hip-hop fashion show at which troubled New Jersey high school?
Answer: Parish Nation. Camden.
The world’s poor have reportedly suffered the most as what vital research programs have been cut?
Answer: Research.
The Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee, in conjunction with Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. dedicated the Charles F. Cummings Memorial Portrait at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Historic Essex County Courthouse. The bronze bust of Cummings, the official Newark Historian and long-time employee at the Newark Public Library, will be placed in the Park Plaza adjacent to the Historic Essex County Courthouse on Springfield Avenue. The dedication of the memorial coincides with "Newark Founders Day." Which is the only county in New Jersey without its own official Historian?
Answer: Essex County.