1. Two metro cities from what county are fighting over annexing a desirable retail space?
A. Cobb
B. Gwinnett
C. DeKalb
D. Fulton
2. It was recently reported that what county has nearly $250 million in unused SPLOST funds in its coffers?
A. Cherokee
B. Clayton
C. Cobb
D. Coweta
3. Time magazine named a man from what local city as one of the top 11 Santas in the country?
A. Norcross
B. Canton
C. Dunwoody
D. Roswell
4. Keeping with the holiday theme, the VA hospital in Augusta banned what tradition?
A. Religious references in carols
B. Rum in the eggnog
C. Workers dressing as elves
D. Visitors bringing fruit cake
5. Dylan Rosier, a 10-year-old from Conyers who has been fighting cancer for over a year, had a holiday wish come true when he asked for what?
A. A baseball autographed by the Braves
B. A trip to Disneyland
C. A white Christmas
D. Tickets to a Widespread Panic concert
Answers
1. C. The owner of a prime piece of land in DeKalb County has successfully halted being annexed into one city, in a bid to join another. The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that Chamblee couldn’t annex Century Center on Dec. 30, when it grew its southern border by 11,000 people. The court will hear arguments from complex owner Highwood Properties this spring or summer about its bid to become part of Brookhaven instead.
2. B. Clayton County has amassed nearly a quarter-billion dollars in taxpayer money collected for road and building projects, many of which are unfinished or haven’t begun. As of Nov. 30, the county had nearly $103 million in the bank from money collected in the 2004 SPLOST and just over $120 million from the 2009 SPLOST. By next December, when the 2009 collections end, the SPLOST money total could balloon to a quarter of a billion dollars, if major movement on projects hasn’t occurred.
3. D. Thomas Tolbert, 53, named this year by Time magazine as one of the top 11 Santas in the U.S. for his spirit of going the extra mile in his work, developed his skills as a 16-year-old working in a Roswell department store and as a theater student at the former Northside High School of the Performing Arts.
4. A. The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta hospital has taken a stricter stance on its policy banning carolers from singing religious Christmas music in public patient areas. A week before Christmas, the facility prevented a group of high school students from Augusta’s Alleluia Community School from singing to its veterans a number of traditional holiday tunes that celebrate the birth of Jesus, such as “Silent Night” and “O Come All Ye Faithful.”
5. C. Volunteers had 4,000 pounds of ice and a snow-making machines shipped in from Arizona to surprise Dylan with a white Christmas. His mom, Brady Moon, said Dylan was “in total shock” when he woke up, walked outside and saw that his wish had been granted.
About the Author
