1. What national candy company was a sponsor of the New Year’s Eve Peach Drop?
A. Hershey
B. Mars
C. Ferrero Rocher
D. Godiva
2. What NCAA record was tied during the Gator Bowl?
A. Most passing yards per game
B. Most fumbles in a game
C. 99-yard touchdown
D. Longest field goal
3. What local university is conducting a study on e-cigarettes and other tobacco products?
A. Georgia State
B. Emory
C. Clayton State
D. Clark Atlanta
4. A drought in India prompted the U.S. to send a record amount what Georgia crop to China in 2012?
A. Peaches
B. Cotton
C. Watermelons
D. Peanuts
5. What Georgian award-winning athlete appears on a celebrity cooking contest that premiered Monday?
A. Evander Holyfield
B. Herschel Walker
C. Julius Erving
D. Jerome Bettis
ANSWERS
1. B. Mars Chocolate was a presenting sponsor of the New Year's Eve Peach Drop, which draws about 100,000 people to downtown. This year, a giant M&M was mounted on the same tower as the peach. The company paid for headliner and Grammy nominee Janelle Monae, an Atlanta resident and a hot property, to perform. That's a step up from last year, when Beatles tribute band Abbey Road Live headlined. Tito Jackson was the main attraction in 2010.
2. C. The No. 22 Bulldogs came within inches of recording a safety against the Cornhuskers after quarterback Tommy Armstrong couldn't handle a high snap and barely made it out of his own end zone. But on the next play — third-and-14 from the half-inch line — Armstrong hit a wide-open Quincy Enunwa down the left sideline for a 99-yard touchdown, tying the NCAA record.
3. A. A major research project is underway at Georgia State, which was recently awarded a five-year $19 million federal grant from the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health to establish one of 14 national Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science. The Atlanta school will explore the marketing of tobacco and smoking alternatives, including e-cigarettes, dissolvable oral nicotine products and hookahs.
4. D. For peanut farmers in South Georgia, 2012 was a record-setting year. The U.S. exported its largest yield of peanuts in 2012, nearly 265,000 tons valued at $470 million. The record-setting harvest yielded an excess supply that would have sat in warehouses, but Georgia found a new trading partner: China. While China usually imports peanuts from India, a terrible drought in 2012 destroyed nearly all of that country's crop. So the Chinese turned to the U.S., with shipment after shipment heading across the Pacific.
5. B. Known best for the Heisman Trophy-winning career while at the University of Georgia, Herschel Walker spent 16 years in pro football. He has since dabbled in ballet, track, bobsledding and, more recently, mixed martial arts. He runs a Savannah-based food services company appropriately named Renaissance Man. And he opened a restaurant last year in Athens. Now Walker is back on reality TV, courtesy of the Food Network and its competition show, "Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off." This third season, which debuted Monday, featured Walker on Guy Fieri's team with comic Chris Kattan, 1980s pop star Tiffany and early 1990s rapper and current DIY Network reality star Vanilla Ice. Walker is no stranger to this genre. He was on Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" in 2009.
Arlinda Smith Broady
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