News Quiz

By Melissa August, Matthew Cooper, Rachel Dry, Daren Fonda, Ellin Martens, Benjamin Nugent, Julie Rawe and Josh Tyrangiel

1. These Los Angeles police officers are:

a) tired of Porky Pig's lip b) very partial to pork rinds c) arresting a convention protester d) playing this little piggy went to Chino

2. Jesse Jackson termed racial diversity at the G.O.P. convention:

a) the inclusion illusion b) diversity perversity c) the rainbow fabrication d) Show Boat: the convention

3. An anonymous investor received approval to:

a) build a nuclear plant in Nagasaki b) create a Titanic-themed water park c) open a disco in an Auschwitz building d) put a Sizzler in the Vatican

4. The title of Governor Jesse Ventura's upcoming book is:

a) It Ain't Easy Being Mean b) As Bald as I Wanna Be c) Me Talk Pretty One Day d) Do I Stand Alone?

5. British doctors advocated:

a) the abolition of clotted cream b) therapeutic human cloning c) salt-free kippers d) semiannual flossing

Answers: 1-c, 2-a, 3-c, 4-d, 5-b