| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | P |
| 252 | MAKE YOUR MOVIE | Propose people who were the secret inspiration for famous movies. | I |
| 176 | WRITE IN THE KISSER | In the style of any famous author, write a description of any one of these people: Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Prince Charles or Sylvester Stallone. | W |
| 158 | SO SUE US | Come up with frivolous lawsuits. | 1 |
| 133 | LIKE, WOW. | Come up with funny analogies. | P E |
| 130 | NICELY STATED | Create a fictional city to be humorously paired with a real state abbreviation. | H |
| 124 | SPOON-FEED US. | Come up with spoonerisms, expressions based on the transposition of the initial sounds of two paired words. | P |
| 121 | IT'S NO USE | Come up with useless products. | H |
| 117 | GIVE 'EM HELOISE | Come up with a tribute to Heloise, that queen of inanely creative recycling. | I |
| 116 | WRITE PURE POETRY | Write a complete sentence using only the letters contained on the top row of a typewriter. Alternatively, you can use the letters of the first four lines of the standard eye chart. | H |
| 113 | WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? | Take a list of horses nominated to the Triple Crown races this year, choose any two, and propose a name for their offspring. | 5 |
| 89 | CHILD'S PLAY | Come up with bad ideas for new toys for the Christmas season. | P |
| 79 | TERROR-DACTYL | Send us a double dactyl. The first line must be a nonsense phrase of five to seven syllables containing exactly two downbeats. The second line must be a name, in five to seven syllables but only two downbeats. The remaining six lines must contain four to seven syllables and two downbeats each, with Lines 4 and 8 rhyming. Somewhere in the poem, one line must consist of only one word. | W |
| 41 | READ-END COLLUSION | Design a Style Invitational bumper sticker to be awarded to all Honorable Mentions. | P |
| 33 | POST IMPRESSIONISM | Give us the opening lines of a big story from American history as it might have been written by someone whose work appears in The Washington Post. Maximum 100 words. You must choose one of three news stories: "Lincoln Assassinated," "Stock Market Crashes" or "Man Walks on Moon. | H |
| 27 | IT'S THE EPONYMY, STUPID | Coin an eponym, a word or figure of speech based on the name of a famous person. You must define the word, and, if you wish, use it in a sentence. | I |
| 16 | I AM ADDICTED TO AN ASININE CONTEST. . . | Come up with sleazy new topics for the daytime talks. | W |
| 14 | COLLECTIVE INSANITY | Modernize collective nouns (as in a "pride" of lions or an "exaltation" of larks), inventing snide new names for groups of things. | I |