WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	INK Types
1119	We want hue so bad	Invent a name for a color and describe it.	H
186	CALLING THE TOON	Who are these people? What are they doing?	H H
128	LIKE, DUH	Come up with snappy answers to stupid questions.	H
125	ASK BACKWARD VI	You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions?	2
124	SPOON-FEED US.	Come up with spoonerisms, expressions based on the transposition of the initial sounds of two paired words.	H
117	GIVE 'EM HELOISE	Come up with a tribute to Heloise, that queen of inanely creative recycling.	L
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.	3
106	DRAWING CONCLUSIONS	Who are these people, and what are they doing?	5
102	HELP! I'M A PRISONER IN THIS CONTEST	Come up with fortune cookie messages that you would love to see, but never will.	H
96	STICK IT IN YOUR ERA	Come up with a catch phrase for the 1990s.	H H
93	I WANT THE MONGOOSE	Tell us, in 50 words or fewer, why you must have this elegant piece of taxidermy featuring a snake being killed by a mongoose.	L
85	PLAY MYTHTY FOR ME	Come up with new urban myths, those vaguely believable, wildly paranoid stories that circulate by word of mouth until they are generally accepted as true.	H
84	THE WASHINGTON IRVINGS	Come up with creative names for the high school football teams of real towns in America.	H
81	HEADS, YOU LOSE	Take any two or more headlines anywhere in today's Washington Post, and combine them to make a funnier headline.	H
77	THE RORSCHACH OF THE CROWD II	What do these ink blots mean?	H
76	ADIOS.	Tell us, in 40 words or fewer, what is great about August in Washington. It's August, and we're out of here.	H H
75	CURSES!	Come up with modern maledictions in the wise and entertaining Yiddish tradition.	L
72	OH, HELL	Come up with the perfect vision of Hell for a famous person, living or dead.	H
56	DO THE HOOKY POKEY	Come up with inventive ways to call in sick or otherwise persuade your employer you must miss a day.	H
55	ESCAPE CLAUSES	Send us self-serving moral loopholes through which the enterprising 1990s transgressor can crawl.	2
53	CRUEL FETE	Tell us how the Invitational has changed America.	R
51	CAPTION CRUNCH, VOL. II	Supply captions for any of these pictures.	H
42	HEY, IT COULD BE WORSE	There are worse things in life than the Washington Redskins. Just tell us what they are.	W
39	WAY OUTSIDE THE LINES	Name a new crayon color for the 1990s, with a description.	3
37	A STATE OF DISGRACE?	Propose any of the following for D.C.: A State Name, A State Flower, A State Bird, A State Slogan, A State Capital, A Governor, An Insulting State Joke.	H
35	LIGHT AT THE END?	Tell the federal government what it should do with the 14-mile-long, 15-foot-diameter sausage-shaped tunnel it dug near Waxahachie, Tex., for the Superconducting Super Collider project that was scrapped by Congress last week.	H H H H H
34	INSPECT A GADGET	What do these machines do?	2
32	FATAL ART ATTACK	In 50 words or fewer, describe a performance art concept that might get public funding. Winners will be audacious enough to seem like art, but pretentious enough to seem to have a social "message.	H
31	INVITATION TO A DUAL	Divide the world into two types of people.	H
30	THE RORSCHACH OF THE CROWD	Interpret any of the provided ink blots.	H
28	MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF INVENTION	Propose some drastic change in government to help the economy or otherwise improve the quality of life in America.	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.	H
25	CAPTION CRUNCH	Write a caption for any of these photos.	H
23	HAPPY ENDINGS	Modernize an old quote or expression by altering its ending.	L 1

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