TO: All CWA Local 1081 Members
FROM: David H. Weiner, President
DATE: July 28, 2008
SUBJECT: 174th CWA Local 1081 Email Trivia Contest
Below, please find the following four (4) questions for the 174th CWA Local 1081 Email Trivia Contest, all having to do with recent arts events in the news. The first member of our Union to correctly answer all of the questions, via an E-mail message sent to cwa1081@aol.com, wins $50.00. You must provide your full name, title and the office to which you are assigned. As always, the winner is ineligible to play the contest again for thirty (30) days. Good luck!
1. This weekend, on what island off which state’s coast did which Nobel laureate, and some 300 people, hold a memorial ceremony to dedicate her long-awaited “bench by the road”? Whom were they honoring?
2. MTV is reinvigorating its get-out-the-vote campaign, even though it has scaled back its news and documentary programming in recent years. MTV plans to cover the 2008 election largely by spotlighting a few of the roughly 1.6 million Americans who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq. What is the get-out-the-vote campaign called?
3. The rapper once dubbed “America’s Most Loveable Pimp” by Rolling Stone makes his debut in India this summer, with a guest appearance on the title track of a highly anticipated Bollywood movie, “Singh Is Kinng.” Name him. The song is a fusion of what types of music?
4. The two recipients of this year’s Jerome Robbins Award for excellence in dance, prizes that are worth $100,000 each, will be which choreographer and which ballet company?