WABE News Quiz, April 21, 2023

Results

#1. Earlier this week, Dr. Devon Horton of Illinois was named as the next superintendent of which Georgia-based school district?

It’s DeKalb.

The DeKalb County School Board voted 6-to-1 Wednesday to hire Devon Horton, current Superintendent of the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 in Illinois.

#2. At a press conference on Wednesday, Mayor Andre Dickens and community leaders voiced their continued support for the construction of which facility?

It’s the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens stood alongside community leaders on the steps of City Hall that afternoon as he said he’d push forward with the project.

 

#3. EMORY HAL offers the world’s first _________ patient simulator designed to train nurses.

It’s artificial intelligence-enabled.

Developed and manufactured by Gaumard Scientific, the Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing is the first in the world to put the HAL model S-5301 human patient simulator to use.

#4. MARTA’s Board of Directors voted Thursday to move forward with an extension of which public transportation sector?

It’s the Atlanta Streetcar.

The proposal extends the streetcar along Edgewood Avenue before traveling along the BeltLine up to Ponce City Market.

#5. One of Georgia’s oldest longleaf pine forests features trees that were planted shortly after this significant historical event.

It’s The Civil War.

One of Georgia’s oldest longleaf pine forests grows in the midst of Ceylon Wildlife Management Area — state-owned land on the coast between Brunswick and Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay.

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