It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

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Celebrate! The week is at an end!
How is it that every week goes by so quickly yet feels like three weeks? Anyhow, that should give us plenty of fodder for this week's Friday Morning News Quiz. You know the deal: Send us a perfect score here and you win a prize. Onward!

1. Guess who was in town this week? J. Edgar Hoover. Nope. Barack Obama. Yep. And what did someone heckle him about during a $2,000-a-pop cocktail fund-raiser?

A. Not doing enough to stem the disastrous Gulf oil spill
B. Not doing enough to allow gays to serve in the military
C. Not doing enough to not be a foreign-born Muslim
D. Not doing enough to save public-sector jobs in California

2. How much did Gavin Newsom pay for a lieutenant governor endorsement in a bogus slate mailer that landed in San Francisco mailboxes this week?

A. $1,500
B. $47,000
C. $116,000
D. $211,500
E. He did not pay

3. Bay to Breakers lost its principal sponsor this week. Who was it?

A. ING
B. IBM
C. AIG
D. AEG

4. What two crimes is San Franciscan Luke Brugnara heading to jail over?

A. Rape and shoplifting
B. Driving under the influence and passing bad checks
C. Illegally poaching an endangered species and tax evasion
D. Money laundering and theft of a zoo creature

5. Why were five San Francisco courtrooms closed for a week?

A. Something to do with Obama's visit
B. They were full of shit
C. Judges walked out in protest over recent imposition of furlough days
D. Evidence from crime lab being stored there.

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