To: Gerald Grasso, FSW, OCSE, Floor 6
From: David H. Weiner, President, CWA Local 1081
Date: July 28, 2008
Re: 173rd CWA Local 1081 Email Trivia Contest Winner
Congratulations, you are last week's CWA Local 1081 Trivia Contest winner. Please contact CWA Local 1081 Secretary Treasurer Vera Winns at (973) 623-1081, or preferably by E-mail at vwinns@oel.state.nj.us, to collect your $50.00 prize. You were the first to correctly answer all of the following questions:
1. On the eve of Senator Barack Obama’s visit to Iraq, its prime minister tried to step back Sunday from comments in an interview in which he appeared to support Mr. Obama’s plan for troop withdrawal. Name the prime minister.
Answer: Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.
2. One product from this Mexican border town, though, trumps all others in terms of shock value: death in a bottle, a liquid more potent than even the strongest tequila. Name the town and the liquid deadly drug.
Answer: Tijuana. Pentobarbital or Nembutal.
3. Hundreds of Thai and Cambodian soldiers faced off at the ruins of an ancient Hindu temple for a sixth straight day on Sunday, in a modern-day echo of the age-old clash of empires across Indochina. Name the temple and the city in which it’s located.
Answer: Preah Vihear. Kantharalak.
4. The U.S. Treasury Secretary recently orchestrated a rescue effort for the nation’s two largest mortgage finance companies last week. Names the Treasury Secretary and the two companies.
Answer: Henry M. Paulson Jr.. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
5. The personal computer industry is poised to sell tens of millions of small, energy-efficient Internet-centric devices. Curiously, some of the biggest companies in the business consider this bad news. Why?
Answer: Because their low price could threaten PC makers’ already thin profit margins.