How much do you remember about 2010?

Why are these men laughing? Ex-Mayor Joe Kuzminski and Admiral Joe Sestak share a hearty chuckle over....what? at some political shindig.It's been a crazy year, and what wild tidings will 201 bring?

Will you still have a job? Will you be able to stay in your home? Will this blog continue to be irreverent and snarky?

No, no, and yes.

For now, let's look back at 2010 and see if you can score big with tbese multiple-guess puzzlers.

1. Reading Eagle Company kicked off the new year by
a) handing its managers big, fat bonuses
b) firing Larry Orkus
c) sucking up to Albert Boscov to land a huge printing del
d) all of the above

2. 1,538 is the magic number of
a) signatures to get on the ballot to challenge for Mike O'Pake's Senate seat
b) Reading residents without an arrest record
c) overtime hours logged by a city cop each year
d) fans attending an average Reading Royals game

3. Berks County residents were thrilled and delighted when camera crews came to town to film an episode of TV's
a) "America's Most Wanted"
b) "Intervention"
c) "Deadwood"
d) "Extreme Makeover"

4. A Boyertown High student made national headlines at a Phillies ballgame when he
a) was tasered by cops after running onto the field
b) gobbled down 25 of Greg Luzinski's "Bull BBQ"
c) vomited on Shane Victorino
d) hacked into the scoreboard and posted a bulletin that Roy Halladay needs Tommy John surgery

5. Vice cops busted the leader of prostitution ring who went under the moniker
a) Banana Republican
b) Harley Queer
c) Aqua Buddha
d) God

6. According to the FBI, the number of cities more dangerous than Reading is
a) zero
b) only Newark and Detroit
c) too depressing to report
d) 40

7. Alarm bells went off when parents discovered that young people were drinking
a) grain alcohol, straight, no chaser
b) a mix of booze and caffeine
c) wimpy cocktails with an umbrella sticking out
d) Reading tap water

8. City council members were miffed when Mayor McMahon did not attend an important budget session because
a) he was in Peru
b) he had tickets to a Taylor Swift concert
c) he was lobbying in Harrisburg for stricter gun laws
d) he was playing with his new iPad and forgot the time

9. Mayor McMahon hopes to revitalize the city by creating a new midtown arts district that shall be known as
a) Cracktown
b) Ricktown
c) Boscovtown
d) Artes Centro de la Ciudad

10. Movie fans were shocked to see that director M. Night Shyamalan had cut from "The Last Airbender" scenes that were shot around
a) Seventh & Franklin
b) Reading Regional Airport
c) Blue Marsh
d) the Pagoda

11. Reading may be able to pull itself out from the yoke of bankruptcy thanks to
a) Act 47
b) Act 69
c) Method acting
d) raising property taxes 800%

12. Reading School Director Keith Stamm shocked his colleagues by asking another board member if he was
a) going to pay for pizzas for everyone
b) a high school dropout
c) immature and petulant
d) dyslexic

Taylor Swift and others on "The Pinnacle of Berks" in this startlingly realistic artist's deiction13.  Former Lower Alsace Supervisor Tom Orth celebrated 2010 in a big way by
a) being acquitted of charges he kicked a cop in the nuts
b) receiving federal stimulus money for his towing business
c) striking up a partnership with Jon Gosselin to do a TV series on the bars of Berks
d) earning recognition as one of the county's top businessmen in the newspaper's "Pinnacles of Berks"

14. Failed gubernatorial candidate Sam Rohrer thought he might get a boost when he was joined on the stump by
a) a hologram of Ronald Reagan
b) Ron Paul
c) Levi Johnston
d) Joe the Plumber

15. When Elton John returned to the Sovereign Center, his contract specified he must be provided with lots of
a) condoms
b) flowers
c) Dom Perignon
d) corsets

16. The Reading Eagle was stung when several of its advertisers were busted for serving as fronts for
a) crack dens
b) sweatshops
c) distribution centers for Four Loko
d) houses of prostitution

17. Judge Scott Lash ticked off two lesbians very much when he would not
a) seat them on a jury to decide a domestic-violence case
b) grant a restraining order against one, then joked, "There's nothing hotter than a good cat fight"
c) issue a divorce to end their Massachusetts marriage
d) allow them to adopt an infant

18. Tim Holden may have put Barack Obama in a sour mood when he voted against health care, but the congressman delighted the president when he
a) delivered a case of Yuengling beer to the White House to cover a bet with the Canadian prime minister involving the Winter Olympics hockey final
b) acted like a good sport after Joe Biden gave him a wedgie in the Rose Garden
c) laughed when Obama referred to him as a "horn dog" instead of a "blue Dog" at the White House Correspondent's Dinner
d) agreed to sit down for a shot of boilo on the White House lawn to settle matters

19. City residents wondered what the cops were thinking when they
a) tipped off criminals that the department lacks the manpower to conduct major vice and drug investigations
b) deployed all their forces to wrangle aging Deadheads at a Sovereign Center concert
c) revealed they may retire en masse next year to collect lucrative benefits
d) all of the above

20. City Hall had egg on its face after it was discovered
a)  weather seer Lester Boyer had told them two feet of snow was coming and the streets department still didn't have the salt trucks ready
b) somebody had stored rental applications, checks and all, in a recycling bin
c) Fritz's Island had a sprung a leak, but Joe Eppihimer's plumbing team wouldn't plug it unless they're paid upfront
d) the city was still spending $500K a your to try to fix the Y2K bug

ANSWERS: 1-d; 2-a; 3-d; 4-a; 5-d; 6-d; 7-b; 8-a; 9-b; 10-d; 11-a; 12-d; 13-a; 14-d; 15-b; 16-d; 17-c; 18-a; 19-d; 20-b

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