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Unreal News Challenge 2007

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Match the Missourian with the item he or she put up for auction on eBay:
59) Bill Beeny. B
60) Rochelle Steffen. C
61) Mark Bland. A
A) The North American manager for the Swedish group Rednex, who put the band up for auction.
B) The owner and curator of the Elvis Is Alive Museum, who put the entire museum up for auction.
C) The pet owner who allowed dogs to chew on Michael Vick trading cards, then put the cards up for auction.

62) Sherman George is to Francis Slay as:
A) A cool breeze is to a summer's day.
B) A boat trip down the Mississippi is to a can of Mr. Pibb.
C) A moat is to a castle.
D) A flaccid member is to a drunk man.

63) World Series tickets are to the St. Louis Police Department as:
A) Webster Groves is to Jonathan Franzen.
B) Tasers are to Jono Sanders.
C) A warm Bud Light is to an AA member.
D) Other people's children are to Michael Devlin.

64) The elected St. Louis Board of Education is to the St. Louis Public Schools as:
A) A shepherd is to a flock of sheep.
B) A pair of jet engines is to a 757.
C) Attilio D'Agostino is to ALIVE magazine.
D) An impacted stool is to the mammalian digestive tract.

65) Curt and Lori Drew are to Waterford Crystal Drive as:
A) A pair of sapphires is to a tennis bracelet.
B) Worker bees are to a hive.
C) The two forward wings are to a soccer team.
D) A cancerous lesion is to a healthy lung.

66) What do Lewis Greenberg's neighbors have to say about his outdoor art installation, The Holocaust Revisited?
A) "It's junk."
B) "It's a great reminder that we must never forget the depths to which the human animal can sink."
C) "At least it matches his drapes."
D) "My kid could make that."

67) Who is Gary Lee Jones and why is he facing up to seven years in prison?
A) He is a drug mule who was caught with $15,000 worth of heroin on I-44.
B) He is a preacher from the bootheel who stands accused of embezzling his congregation's funds.
C) He is a competitive fisherman who was arrested for cheating during the 2007 Angler's Choice/Bass Quest Tournament on Lake Wappapello.
D) He is a serial vandal who stole sculptures from Turtle Park.

68) What make of car did kidnapper and child molester Michael Devlin drive?
A) A Rambler.
B) A Toyota pickup.
C) A Camaro.
D) A Hummer.

69) U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway says the U.S. Attorney's office in St. Louis has logged more indictments than any other district for which crime?
A) Possessing or producing methamphetamine.
B) Possessing or producing child pornography.
C) Mail fraud.
D) Failure to use one's turn signal.

Match the executive with the crime(s) for which he has been indicted:
70) Mike Shanahan, Engineered Support Systems Inc. C
71) Henry Allen, Global Power Global Wealth Enterprises. A
72) Gary Kaplan, BETonSPORTS. B
A) Money laundering, mail fraud and wire fraud.
B) Racketeering, wire fraud and tax evasion (to name a few).
C) Defrauding investors by back-dating stock options.

73) Washington University student Susannah Cahalan made headlines in 2007 for what?
A) She was selected as a Rhodes Scholar.
B) She scored two jailhouse interviews with kidnapper and child molester Michael Devlin.
C) She was the first female to swim down the Mississippi River from La Crosse, Wisconsin, to St. Louis.
D) She was featured in a Playboy magazine feature entitled "Putting the ‘Fun' in Fundamentalist Christianity."

74) Why did Brian and Susanna Cox sue ConAgra in federal court in Missouri?
A) They bought a Slim Jim that glowed in the dark.
B) They ate a jar of salmonella-tainted Great Value peanut butter.
C) After purchasing what they thought was a filet mignon, they were shocked to find out that it was "all ligament."
D) While working as temps at ConAgra's Nebraska pork plant, they saw a floor manager mix what he referred to as "the real Red Bull": equal parts pig's blood and cow's milk.

75) Which staff member left Governor Matt Blunt's administration in the wake of the recent controversy over the office's handling of e-mails?
A) Chief of Staff Ed Martin.
B) General Counsel Henry Herschel.
C) Deputy General Counsel Scott Eckersley.
D) All of the above.

76) What body part of what sculpture went missing from Turtle Park shortly before the demolition of the Tamm Avenue Bridge over Highway 40?
A) The head of a turtle (duh).
B) The head of a snake.
C) The head of a frog.
D) The nose on a work called The Brown-Noser.

77) Before being stripped of its authority, the St. Louis Board of Education approved a no-bid contract to which local personality?
A) Lizz Brown.
B) Floyd Irons.
C) Mike Shannon.
D) Ray Hartmann.

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