Sunday, April 19, 2009

April 15 Warmup Quiz Answers


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Name all 4 of the Monkees (first names only):
Micky
Davy
Michael
Peter

All 3 of the Jonas Brothers (first names only):
Nick
Joe
Kevin

All 3 authors of The Federalist Papers:
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
John Jay

All 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council:
US
UK
China
France
Russia

9 Reflexive Pronouns:
myself
himself
herself
yourself
itself
oneself
ourselves
yourselves
themselves
thyself 
(That's 10 -- any 9 would do.  "Theirselves" is a regionalism on par with "y'all" and is listed in dictionaries only as "Vulgar English."  Incidentally, the "Vulgar English" lexicon also includes "hisself," at which point you really ought to just start playing the washboard as an instrument.)

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A final challenge asked participants to guess the blacked-out words on these covers:

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Hilarity ensued.  Here are the complete covers:

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In other words: muscle, fat, sex, abs, pains, rich, health, fantasy, confidence, boxers, sex, gay, and rape.  Many people suggested that perhaps the boyfriend had not changed his sheets; one person suggested that there might be a new kind of date "rap" we should know about.

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