News Quiz

By Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Randy Hartwell, Ellin Martens, Jodie Morse, Joseph Pierro, Alex Smith and Sora Song

1. Alaska is putting poetry on beer bottles:

a) because pick-up lines used by men in bars rarely work b) to encourage bottle returns c) because Jewel's verse is more tolerable when you're drunk d) to spur interest in poetry

2. This man is protesting:

a) bad dental work b) the Summit of the Americas meeting in Quebec City c) rumored plans for release of The Blair Witch Project III d) ballpoint pens that leak when you chew on them

3. A new study has found that people with tattoos are more likely to:

a) be married to Pamela Anderson b) drop their nose ring in your smoothie c) be infected with hepatitis C d) realize too late that they won't love Susie 4-Ever

4. This week London will begin spraying:

a) a fragrance in its subway stations b) deodorant on French tourists c) Camilla Parker Bowles with cold water d) America with even worse television game shows

5. Chinese guards asked the 24 U.S. detainees to say:

a) the lyrics to Hotel California b) what exactly is growing on Bryant Gumbel's chin c) why Starbucks charges so much for a macchiato

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