1. Wisconsin has guns and needs to use them. The latest target to be considered fair game is:
A. Pigeons
B. Cats
C. Wombats
D. Drivers with cell phones
2. The Chicago City Council backed away from an ordinance that targeted:
A. Pigeons
B. Cats
C. Wombats
D. Drivers with cell phones
3. Serial killer Richard Paul White’s father is selling:
A. His son’s childhood artwork
B. His son’s baseball card collection
C. His son’s videotaped confession
D. His own recollections of how he raised a serial killer
Who is he?
4. Andrew Motion
Who is she?
5. Janeal Lee
What is it?
6. Panola
Who said it?
7. “How on Earth could a 40-year sentence be appropriate for this offense? Nobody was hurt.”
Who said it?
8. “Probably the Lord God has called to Himself the majority of them. As to those who are still on this side, may the words of this testament recall them, everyone and everywhere, wherever they are.”
The answers
Photo: C. The sculpture, by Tom Otterness, is indeed Gulliver. It is one of 25 bronzes that make up the largest art display the city has hosted.
1. B. Apparently, a large and resourceful population of feral cats is doing great damage to other species. And this from hunters. Pigeons are probably already legal, wombats are not native to this hemisphere, and drivers on cell phones make very erratic targets. 2. D. “Live by the cell phone, die by the cell phone” seems to work for most people. 3. C. Randolph “Duke” White says the money will go to his grandchildren and the victims’ children. 4. Britain’s poet laureate, who had to turn out a poem for Prince Charles’ marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles. (Do you think he hears a lot of “poetry in Motion” jokes?) 5. The 30-year-old woman with muscular dystrophy who forfeited the crown of Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin on account of not being disabled enough because she can still stand. She said: “I was told that in a few years when my disability progresses, I could enter the pageant again then. I have no plans of doing so.” 6. A hamlet in central Illinois. Panola, population 33, was considering disbanding. But 26 of 27 registered voters showed up Tuesday, and the measure lost in a landslide. 7. Matthew Hale, who was convicted of plotting to kill federal Judge Joan Lefkow. Her husband and mother were slain over an unrelated case. 8. Pope John Paul II, in his last will and testament. The last entry is devoted to thanking the people who moved through his life.
