{"id":598861,"date":"2026-04-12T09:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598861\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T09:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:55:13","slug":"its-time-for-the-weekly-cbc-ottawa-news-quiz-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598861\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time for the weekly CBC Ottawa news quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How closely did you follow the past seven days in local news? Take our quiz to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Test your knowledge of the past week in local news<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/author\/trevor-pritchard-9.14285\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Pritchard<\/a>  \u00b7 CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Apr 12, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Four Scrabble tiles spelling the word &quot;quiz&quot; sit on a wooden surface.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1769940308_580_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Time for the weekly CBC Ottawa news quiz. How closely have you been paying attention over the past seven days? (Trevor Pritchard\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>Which local institution will see its workforce slashed by three per cent in the months ahead?<\/p>\n<p>Why did Ontario Provincial Police lay a dozen charges against a southern Ontario man this week?<\/p>\n<p>And what&#8217;s the story behind a hand-carved chair that&#8217;s been donated to a local museum?<\/p>\n<p>These are just a few of the questions designed to vex and perplex you in\u00a0this week&#8217;s CBC Ottawa news quiz.<\/p>\n<p>On a desktop computer?\u00a0For the best quiz-taking experience, click on the arrows in the bottom right-hand corner of the quiz widget to expand it.\u00a0Not seeing anything on mobile?\u00a0Try\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goconqr.com\/en-US\/quiz\/40933552\/cbc-ottawa-news-quiz-for-the-week-of-april-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">taking the quiz here<\/a>\u00a0by clicking on the graphic.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa How closely did you follow the past seven days in local news? Take our quiz to find&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-598861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}