THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, May 21, 2021 Page 19 Beacon Hill Roll Call By Bob Katzen A note from Bob Katzen, Publisher of Beacon Hill Roll Call: Join me this Sunday night and every Sunday night between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. for my talk show “The Bob Katzen Baby Boomer and Gen X Show.” Jump in my time capsule and come back to the simpler days of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. My special guest on Sunday, May 23 at 6 p.m. will be Tony Dow, best known for playing Wally Cleaver on the beloved and iconic television series “Leave it to Beaver.” Listeners are always invited to call in and talk with Tony. There are many ways you can listen to the show from anywhere in the world: • If you have a smart speaker, simply say, “Play WMEX on Audacy.com” • Download the free Audacy app on your phone or tablet • Listen online at www.wmexboston.com • Or tune into 1510 AM if you have an AM radio. • Visit us at www.bobkatzenshow.com THE HOUSE AND SENATE: There were no roll call votes in the House or Senate last week. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports local senators’ roll call attendance records for the 2021 session through May 14. The Senate has held 28 roll calls so far in 2021. Beacon Hill Roll Call tabulates the number of roll calls on which each senator votes and then calculates that number as a percentage of the total roll call votes held. That percentage is the number referred to as the roll call attendance record. In the Senate, 39 of the 40 members did not miss any roll calls and have 100 percent roll call attendance records. It is a Senate tradition that the Senate president only votes occasionally. Senate President Karen Spilka follows that tradition and only voted on 11 of the 28 roll calls while not voting on 17 of them. Sen. Spilka's office did not respond to repeated requests by Beacon Hill Roll Call to comment on her voting record. We specifically asked if Spilka was in the Statehouse building for all the formal and informal sessions; how the tradition developed that the president rarely votes; has she ever thought of breaking that tradition and being recorded on all roll calls; and how does she choose on which roll calls she will vote? The vast majority of the 40 senators are not in the Senate chamber during a session because of the COVD-19 pandemic. Most are watching and listening to the session from their home, business or Statehouse office and voting remotely. Senators’ votes are communicated to Senate officials during the session or prior to the session if senators are informed in advance that there will be a roll call vote. If a member wants to speak on an issue under consideration, they do so on a separate “debate phone line” and their voice is then heard in the Senate chamBHRC | SEE PAGE 22 Office/Commercial Space for Lease 3 Large rooms, each with walk-in storage area. Ideal for Law Office or Aerobics Studio. Like new condition. Second floor elevator direct to unit. Seperate entrances - New Baths - Large Parking Area. On MBTA Bus Route #429. Located on Route 1 South at Walnut Street. Rollerworld Plaza Rte. 1 South 425 Broadway Saugus Call Michelle at: 781-233-9507 1. May 21 is National Bike to Work Day; what inventor brothers operated a bike repair shop in Dayton, Ohio? 2. What is the world’s lowest freshwater lake? 3. What fruit has seeds on the outside? 4. May 22 is National Maritime Day; what are the three Canadian Maritime provinces? 5. How are Poppie Fresh, Biscuit and Bun Bun similar? 6. What First Lady wrote a newspaper column called “My Day”? 7. In what four Shakespearian plays do ghosts appear? 8. On May 23, 1934, Robert Moog was born, who invented what? 9. Mayor McCheese was mayor of what land in commercials? 10. Powhatan was the father of what Native American? 11. Who were the arch enemies of Bullwinkle and Rocky? 12. On May 24, 1883, what bridge over the East River in NYC opened (the world’s only steel-cabled, stone-towered bridge)? 13. In 1958 who received the only Golden Globe Award ever awarded for Most Glamorous Actress? 14. On May 25, 1895, the Republic of Formosa was formed on what island? 15. How are Blue Mountain, Kona and Java similar? 16. May 26 is World Otter Day; what two continents do otters not live on? 17. How are lightsaber, droid and wookie similar? 18. U.S. President Chester Arthur’s whisker style and favorite food were both called what? 19. What advice columnist with a pseudonym said, “The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie”? 20. On May 27, 1937, what bridge opened that has appeared in dozens of movies? ANSWERS 1. Flying airplane inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright 2. The Sea of Galilee 3. Strawberry 4. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island 5. They were characters in the Pillsbury toy line. 6. Eleanor Roosevelt 7. “Hamlet,” “Julius Caesar,” “Macbeth” and “Richard III” 8. An electronic music synthesizer 9. McDonaldland 10. Pocahontas 11. Boris and Natasha 12. The Brooklyn Bridge 13. Zsa Zsa Gabor 14. Taiwan 15. They are horticultural varieties of coffee. 16. Antarctica and Australia 17. They are vocabulary in the Star Wars franchise. 18. Mutton chops 19. Ann Landers 20. The Golden Gate Bridge
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