Friday, March 28, 2008

Have you been paying attention?

BBC's Weekly World News Quiz


Bill got 7 right. "The height of etiquette"
I got 1 right. "Plain rude!"

The quiz can stuff it.

Monday, March 24, 2008

Boneheaded, blundering, birdbrained

I was fooling around with the wayback machine and found this lost post from Friday, September 22, 2006. I wonder what it must have been like then.

Quiz me!
Bill and I got 5 and 6 respectively.
Neither of us could accurately recall which of the Hungarians were Bewitched, Bothered, or Bemildred.

Then they swapped outfits again and admitted that they can't figure it out themselves. At that point we gave up to go fishing in a boat called the "Fiorelllo LaGuardia"

Friday, March 14, 2008

Time to show what you know

BBC Weekly World News Quiz

Can you beat Bill's 6? "6. Lousy drugged-up Bolivians."

If not, can you beat my 3?

And we now know the answer to the question Sundance asked Butch after seeing the destitution in Bolivia:

Butch: "You know, it could be worse. You get a lot more for your money in Bolivia, I checked on it. "
Sundance: "What could they have here that you could possibly want to buy?"