Slate Quiz 11.18.16
8/12 for 323 Lady Liberty silver dollars...
Not a great score, but good enough to beat the average reader and a tech writer...(but then what can a tech nerd be expected to know about the news)
About half successful guesses...very gossip and trivia oriented quiz this week
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Econoline
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10/12 for 396 onion rings...that's some fancy-ass guessin'
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Bicycle Bill
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7/12 for 314 Krispy Kreme donuts.
And since when is a race car driver losing a wedding ring considered "newsworthy"?
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And since when is a race car driver losing a wedding ring considered "newsworthy"?
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4/12 for 179 bits of confetti
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I've never had such a bad week. Maybe I wasn't awake enough. The only reason I got the Joey Logano question right was the previously posted spoiler. Not to brag, obviously, but I got 4/12 and 164 cow chips.
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Since who People Magazine chose as "The Sexiest Man Alive" was considered newsworthy...Bicycle Bill wrote:7/12 for 314 Krispy Kreme donuts.
And since when is a race car driver losing a wedding ring considered "newsworthy"?
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8/12
359 stale, week-old cheetos
359 stale, week-old cheetos
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Bicycle Bill
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8/12, only 360 farthings.
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8/12
342 thin slices of mortadella stacked evenly with no tilt.
342 thin slices of mortadella stacked evenly with no tilt.
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10/12 and 464 miscounted WI ballots
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Econoline
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10/12 for 427 cubic inches of displacement
...continuing my theme of 60s muscle-car engines (which I started a month ago)
...continuing my theme of 60s muscle-car engines (which I started a month ago)
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Guinevere wrote:10/12 and 464 miscounted WI ballots
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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9/12
412 illegal votes from dead people
412 illegal votes from dead people
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MajGenl.Meade
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8 for 356 teeny tiny pizzarettes
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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8/12 and 383 buffalo chips
Better than a lot of weeks.
Better than a lot of weeks.
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Econoline
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*EXACTLY* the same as last week! 10/12 for 427, again.
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