WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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528 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
271 | YOGI BEARER | Come up with new Yogi-isms, which seem to make sense, but collapse like a soufflé when you poke it a little | H |
268 | WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? | Take the names of this year's Triple Crown nominees, mate any two of them, a propose a name for the foal. The foal's name must be contained in 18 characters, including spaces. | H H H |
264 | ASK BACKWARDS | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. What are the questions? | H H |
263 | THE GAME OF THE NAME | Propose a bad name for the provided categories. | H |
262 | CAMPAIGN FOR ONE | Design a line for Niels Hoven to deliver in his campaign for a student government office that will wake up a snoozing audience. | H |
260 | IT'S A SNAP | Come up with replacements for the two hackneyed answers: "Is the Pope Catholic?" and "When Hell freezes over. | H H |
259 | SPARE EXCHANGE, BUDDY? | Take any phone number of any business or government office in the Washington area, translate the first two digits into their constituent letters and propose any appropriate one-word exchange. | H |
258 | IT'S A BIRD. IT'S A PAIN. | Choose one or more of the provided super powers and tell us what you would do with it. | H |
253 | IT'S A PITY | Enter any of the provided contests. Winners will be judged entirely on the basis of how pitiful an attempt at humor the entry is. | H |
251 | QUOTH THE MAVEN | Take any famous line, change it by one letter only (add, subtract or change a single letter), and reattribute it. | 5 |
246 | OUR OWN DEVICES | What do these contraptions do? Tell us in 50 words or fewer. | H |
241 | CAN YOU BEAT THIS? | Come up with headlines describing the defeat of one pro team by another. | H 6 |
237 | ASK BACKWARD | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | 4 |
234 | THE JOKE'S ON YOU | Complete any of the provided jokes as it would be told by someone famous, living or dead. | H |
233 | SEEKING PARODY | Take any paragraph appearing on Page A1 of today's Washington Post, and rewrite it in the style of any famous writer. | H |
231 | GIVING QUARTER | Suggest a motto for the "tails" side of any of the state-themed quarters. | H |
230 | TALES FROM THE CRYPTOGRAM | Take any proper noun--a person, a book, a movie, whatever--and create for it an appropriate cryptogram. | 1 |
226 | GOING WITHOUT | Complete some variation of the expression "An A without a B is like a C without a D. | H |
225 | WE RESPECTfully decline to publish any dumb entries by YOU. | Come up with signs for a T-shirt or a bumper sticker that hide the real message in tiny type. | H |