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This was printed in the Dec. 22 edition of the Daily Post.

The Daily Post, the newspaper that doesn’t take itself too seriously, presents the 2025 local news quiz.

1. Atlantic magazine printed a surprising statistic about Stanford students. The magazine said that 38% of students:

a. Take their pets to campus;

b. Claim to be disabled;

c. Are registered Republicans;

d. Hope their degree gets them a job at Starbucks.

2. San Mateo County in January was trying to sell 3 million of what?

a. Face shields that went unused in the Covid lockdown;

b. Tapes of “Seinfeld” episodes bought by former Sheriff Christina Corpus;

c. Parasites found in the county hospital;

d. Chuck E. Cheese tokens a county official bought thinking they were bitcoins;

3. Auditors digging through the records of the Las Lomitas school district discovered that former Superintendent Beth Polito had used her district credit card to pay for:

a. $160 birthday cake;

b. $4,039 in parties at the Left Bank restaurant;

c. $107.57 for wine and an in-room movie while she was staying at the Four Seasons Embarcadero in San Francisco;

d. All of the above.

4. Plans call for replacing the Kelly Moore paint plant in San Carlos with a:

a. Benjamin Moore paint plant. He had obtained the plant in a divorce with Kelly.

b. Campus catering to biotech companies;

c. Drive-in movie theater;

d. Country home for uncle Glidden and his pet Behr.

5. A supporter of San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus went to a public meeting to speak on her behalf wearing a:

A. Super Mario costume;

b. Great American Hero costume (referring to a short-lived 1980s TV show);

c. Gorilla suit;

d. A pink bikini.

6. The FCC investigated KCBS Radio because it:

a. Broadcast where ICE agents were gathering for a roundup;

b. Stole stories out of the paper;

c. Played the “Kars for Kids” song on a loop for hours and hours;

d. Makes WKRP in Cincinnati seem like a professional operation;

7. A realtor was arrested by Palo Alto police after she:

a. Repeatedly opened the doors of cars around billionaire Larry Page’s home;

b. Put up a giant “for sale” sign in front of City Hall;

c. Got into an arm-wrestling match with another realtor;

d. Used her high school yearbook photo in an advertisement promoting herself.

8. The Post discovered that San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus purchased the following:

a. Two soft-service ice cream machines for jail employees;

b. A $74,000 custom table for her conference room;

c. Massage chairs for her employees;

d. All of the above.

9. In April, people using crosswalks in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Redwood City got a laugh when they pressed the crossing button and heard messages from:

a. Captain Kangaroo and Mister Rogers;

b. Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk;

c. Gavin Newsom;

d. Bill Cosby.

10. Why are neighbors of billionaire Mark Zuckerberg in Palo Alto upset with him?

a. They’re tired of years of disruptive construction for his $110 million compound, noise, blocked driveways and security cameras pointing at their homes;

b. He’s never invited them to one of his swinging parties;

c. The Winklevoss twins are always hanging out;

d. He’s got too much money.

11. When the city of Palo Alto released its final 2024 payroll in May, how many employees made over $400,000 in total pay:

a. 1

b. 10

c. 100

d. 5

12. In April, a jury found a former Caltrain executive, Joseph Navarro, guilty of:

a. Fare evasion;

b. Plotting a merger with BART;

c. Building a secret apartment in the Burlingame Train Station;

d. Selling defective trains to foreign countries.

13. In June, a jury convicted a Mountain View optometrist of:

a. Repeatedly getting eye prescription glasses wrong;

b. Selling X-ray glasses;

c. Recording a female employee in the restroom;

d. Stealing trade secrets from Meta.

14. Officials in East Palo Alto got a first-hand view of the homeless situation when:

a. People living in their cars parked in the City Hall parking lot;

b. A court settlement required them to work in a soup kitchen;

c. They were given tents and ordered to camp in an encampment overnight;

d. They all decided to open their homes to the homeless.

15. Caltrans’ repaving of El Camino Real in Palo Alto resulted in the following problem:

a. Longer lines at Jack In The Box;

b. The bike lanes Caltrans added eliminated parking, pushing RVs to adjacent streets. People on those streets didn’t like the RV campers lingering in their neighborhoods or dumping sewage into their gutters.

c. Less room for crowds to watch parades;

d. Lower revenue for collision repair shops now that the potholes are gone.

16. When a hearing in her corruption case ended at the Redwood City Courthouse on June 15, the judges were furious that former Sheriff Christina Corpus did the following:

a. Gave the finger to the audience in the room and yelled “suckers”;

b. Exited through the judge’s door and into a non-public hallway meant for judges and court employees;

c. Answered questions from reporters by barking like a dog;

d. Yelled to a friend, “I hope you booked those tickets to Havana. They don’t have an extradition treaty.”

17. How are Palo Alto’s police chief and San Mateo County’s new sheriff related?

a. They’re brothers;

b. Cousins once-removed;

c. They had the same ex-wife;

d. Just a wild coincidence that they would have the same last name, Binder.

18. Stanford Stadium received permission to have three concerts in 2026. Who will be performing May 16, 17 and 19?

a. Coldplay;

b. It hasn’t been announced;