WABE News Quiz, November 17, 2023
Results
#1. It was announced this week that Atlanta will host ______ after losing the 2021 game over objections to Georgia’s voting laws.
It’s the 2025 MLB All-Star Game.
Major League Baseball will play its 2025 All-Star Game in Atlanta, four years after moving the game from Truist Park to Denver’s Coors Field over objections to changes in Georgia’s voting rights laws.
#2. More Georgia locations will offer _________ after a state commission awarded more licenses to producers.
It’s medical cannabis.
The Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission on Wednesday unanimously granted provisional licenses to four more companies to produce low-THC oil to help Georgians with a list of severe ailments.
#3. Beloved LGBTQ-owned Atlanta restaurant ______ announced this week they would close after a decade.
It’s Henry’s.
Henry’s Midtown Tavern is shutting down after 10 years. The LGBTQ-owned eatery at 10th and Juniper is the latest in a series of longtime local staples to close their doors.
#4. Atlanta native and Grammy Award-winner _______ announced his first new album in 17 years.
It’s André 3000.
For the first time in over 17 years, André 3000 is releasing an album of new music. “New Blue Sun” – announced on Tuesday and released on Friday – is a stunning 87-minute mind-bender, minimalist and experimental, tribal and transcendent.
#5. Thousands of _______ workers across Georgia and the U.S. went on a one-day strike Thursday for the “Red Cup Rebellion.”
It’s Starbucks.
Workers at more than 200 U.S. Starbucks — including several in metro Atlanta — walked off the job Thursday in what organizers said was the largest strike yet in the two-year-old effort to unionize the company’s stores.