A "pop quiz" can be just the thing to rouse the waking brain. On WCLV, occasionally I spring a pop quiz on "First Program" listeners from 6-10 am. "Close your books, put your pencils down, no talking to your neighbor," is the routine introduction.
Today's was an elevation quiz: Which of these three Cleveland-area cities has the highest elevation -- Richmond Heights, Broadview Heights, or Bedford Heights?
Congratulations to the first three listeners to get it right: Dale Obran of Avon, Leslie Mason of Fairview Park, and Lily Petrila of Westlake. They correctly guessed that Broadview Heights was the highest. According to City-Data.com, the elevation of Broadview Heights is 1,150 ft. Bedford Heights comes in second at 1,040 ft, with Richmond Heights third at 880 ft.
I've given this quiz, using different area cities, for years. We always get a blizzard of calls. The first time I used this question, the WCLV switchboard was flooded with callers asking us to look up the elevation of their cities. I finally had to make an on-air announcement asking callers to stop calling us. I gently suggested that they call their public library reference departments.
After all, librarians know everything, and if they don't, they know where to look it up.
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Thanks for the compliment, Jackie. :-)
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