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SOUTH COUNTY TRIVIA

01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, July 17, 2008

A section of a stained glass window in the Wakefield Baptist Church in South Kingstown.


The Providence Journal / KRIS CRAIG

1. President Ronald Reagan sent congratulations to the congregation of Wakefield Baptist Church on the occasion of that church’s:

a) Centennial

b) Bicentennial

c) Tricentennial

d) Quadricentennial

2. Disturbed because there was no community cemetery — only private burial plots on private land — public-spirited citizens in North Kingstown established Elmgrove Cemetery in the year:

a) 1800

b) 1850

c) 1775

d) 1780

3. In 1982, she was All-American in women’s college lacrosse and a member of the U.S. national team. Competing for URI, her name was:

a) Marion Sweet

b) Ethel Warren

c) Doris Taber

d) Karen Murphy

ANSWERS ON PAGE D2.

1 — b. The church was founded in 1781.

2 — b

3 — d