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There were eight perfect scores in the Sentinel’s news quiz, producing an eight-way split of the prize money.

In total, 21 readers entered the contest, answering 18 questions about the news from the first three weeks of July. Trailing the eight perfect entries, nine people missed just one of the questions.

It was the first time the Sentinel had run such a contest, which owner Larry Persily called a “current events quiz.”

The Sentinel published six questions each of three weeks — July 5, 12 and 19 — based on news stories in the paper. “There were no trick questions, no hidden answers. It only r...