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This is only a test: Part 1 of our year-end quiz

1. "But he's underage!" Why did parishioners at a Deep Cove church make accusations of theft after a baby, known to be something of a fixture on the church scene around Christmas, was spotted at a New Year's Eve party? 2.
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Liberal leader Justin Trudeau dances with West Vancouver candidate and former mayor Pamela Goldsmith-Jones

1. "But he's underage!" Why did parishioners at a Deep Cove church make accusations of theft after a baby, known to be something of a fixture on the church scene around Christmas, was spotted at a New Year's Eve party?

2. After being unable to ground two under-equipped young men hiking on Crown Mountain, North Shore Rescue's Tim Jones elected to phone what two powerful figures?

3. Why did West Vancouver residents make a racket about not getting any service on a Gordon Avenue parking lot?

4. The L Word: Liberal leader Justin Trudeau didn't seem to have time for a sober second thought when he granted independence to which group of Canadians in January?

5. Olympian snowboarder Maelle Ricker competed at the Sochi games with something no other competitor had. When asked if she'd ever competed with them before, Ricker said she had, "but not this fresh." What was she talking about?

6. Not a fan? Which former tennis great insisted on changing the name of the Grant Connell Tennis Centre?

7. Sentinel Hill residents in West Vancouver protested a new seniors living centre because they were afraid construction would cause what to fall?

8. Ornithologists were largely unmoved when a very large crane was spotted in North Vancouver's shipyard this spring. Why?

9. "To love, honour, and. .. ." Before voting to halt development projects in Seymour, District of North Vancouver Coun. Doug MacKay-Dunn cited which resident's crucial input?

10. "It's not easy being green." Former West Vancouver police chief Kash Heed now works as a security consultant in what budding business?

11. After deserting from the U.S. Air Force in the early 1970s, Squamish resident and future grocery store robber Thomas John Schwartz assumed he'd be OK as long as he lived underneath what?

12. A West Vancouver teen is supremely pumped up to put warning labels on these. Hint: You usually go there when you're low and leave when you're full.

13. This activity won't happen on Gambier Island until a provincial ministry has a sappy conversation with First Nations. What is the activity?

14. It would've been different if they were dealing with a match or a pitcher, but a B.C. Supreme Court judge said government negotiators were wrong to try to get one of these from the B.C. Teachers' Federation. What were they trying to get?

15. Some stern North Vancouver residents thought council lost their Head when they paid $250,000 to get rid of what?

16. "Don't call us. .. ." Dogwood strata council chairman Bill MacMillan got "fired" from HSBC in February but he didn't work there. What happened?

17. Despite his rebellious nature, West Vancouver author Douglas Coupland seemed happy to take an order from the federal government in 2014. Why?

18. The Fair Elections Act was written to eliminate what eight-word practice at polling stations? (It starts with aV but it's not voting.)

19. "Is it hot in here?" The City of North Vancouver loaned $12 million to an energetic entity that's been called a "white elephant." What is the entity?

20. She racked up $350,000 in travel expenses over three years, but Conservative

senator Pamela Wallin said that what she really regretted was something she wrote. It wasn't a speech, a novel or a poem. What did she write?

ANSWERS

1. A thief stole the baby Jesus from the church's nativity scene and took it to the party.

2. The hikers' parents.

3. The parking lot had been converted from a tennis court and not changed back.

4. Liberal senators.

5. Broken radius and ulna bones.

6. Grant Connell.

7. Their property values.

8. It was Seaspan's new gantry crane.

9. His wife's.

10. Medicinal marijuana farming.

11. An assumed name.

12. Gas pumps.

13. Logging.

14. A strike.

15. The stern of Victory ship HMS Flamborough Head.

16. The bank dropped his strata council as a client.

17. It was the Order of Canada. Aviation pioneer Barry Marsden also received the award.

18. Vouching.

19. The Lonsdale Energy Corporation.

20. A cheque to pay back some of the money.