Another Weekly Quiz

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8/12 for 326 eclipse-viewing lenses.
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9/12; 411
Another term used for "information". Hence dialing 411 for information.
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Damn - LJ beat me. Must be getting old and thick and slow.

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7/12, with an Alt-Rock band from Omaha.
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Slate Quiz 8.25.17

8/12
379 statues of Robert E. Lee
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9/12 for 397 flat speeches from Dumpa
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Only 6 this time, and 262 empty Confederate war memorial pedestals.
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6 of 12 for 273 dog whistles...

ETA:

At least I beat their technology writer...

I guess tech nerds don't have time to follow the news...
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8/12 for a whopping' 350

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.


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7/12 and 308.
I got all of the first seven, and blew the last five.
At least I beat the Slate tech writer.
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8/12 and 382 millibars of Mercury.
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7/12 and 324 Order of Lenin medals.
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Slate Quiz 9.1.17

6/12 for 262 inches of rain from Hurricane Harvey...
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6/12 for 256 sensitive and helpful tweets from #45

(just kidding!)

ETA: never heard of the four nobodies who won some award or other
And they never heard of me twice as much
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7/12 and 313 more plastic bags added to the waste stream.
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9 with 393 degrees of freedom. I will cop to one lucky guess.
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6/12 for an uniformed 247 :ok

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7/12 and 297.
I've done worse.
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9/12 and 365 ILGWU union lables. Happy Labor Day.
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5/12
231


Whoo hoo! I'm the champion! Of lowest scores . . .
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Slate Quiz 9.8.17

8/12 for 355 North Korean miniaturized hydrogen warheads...

Which makes me exactly average... :?
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