“News Quiz” is a weekly feature that lets you test your knowledge of recent Link stories. The correct answers appear at the end.
1. What does the final scene in the video about the new 250 Years of Delivering stamps depict?
a) A USPS employee hanging up a coat
b) A woman writing a letter from her kitchen table
c) Three bicyclists pedaling alongside a mail truck
d) Two young students waving to their letter carrier
2. McDaniel College in Westminster, MD, includes which of the following items in the acceptance packages that it mails to incoming freshmen?
a) Special “cash” to be used in the school bookstore
b) Confetti, balloons and keyboard stickers
c) Laundry detergent and disinfecting wipes
d) A school T-shirt and gift cards to local businesses
3. Whose 1999 photograph was used for the new Elie Wiesel stamp for 2-ounce mail?
a) Sergei Grinkov
b) Sergei Federov
c) Sergey Bermeniev
d) Sergey Lazarev
4. Chicago Letter Carrier Kalani Han included which three items in his postmark celebrating the Ravenswood neighborhood’s ZIP Code Day?
a) Baseball, basketball and football
b) Border collie, hot-air balloon and pinwheel
c) Fire engine, police car and ambulance
d) Raven, larch branch and oak leaf
5. The Postal Service delivered how many mailpieces in 2000?
a) 857 million
b) 75 billion
c) 106 billion
d) 208 billion
Answers: 1) a. 2) b. 3) c. 4) d. 5) d.
