Pop Quiz

It's time for a short test on some of the media weirdness from the past week! Answers can be found down below.

A. Which of these four photos is not Minnesota's favorite media magnet Michele Bachmann?


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B. What is this WCCO story about?


1. A woman who misplaced her child while petting a deer
2. A woman who miscarried after her car collided with a deer
3. A woman who can't find her child after slipping on some deer urine
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C. Help the Star Tribune rewrite its headline:


1. Crop of choice weed gets man in trouble
2. Marijuana crop means trouble for man
3. A bunch of nice land, man in trouble

And as a secondary thought -- what does "case of" add to the second headline? I read it expecting "Case of" to be followed by "liquor" or something like that, and had to think pretty hard for "case of body" to make any sense at all.
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Answers



A. The Michele Bachmann photo array. If you guessed photo 3, you're right! That AP photo caught my eye in this story from today's Pioneer Press:


But as I glanced across the page, I thought it was Michele trying out a new adventure.


B. The answer is B, as evidenced by this excruciatingly detailed but clear headline from the Star Tribune:




C. Probably the best choice is "Marijuana crop means trouble for man." But that's a judgment call; all I know is I read the headline as "choice lands" -- you know, since "lands" can be a noun as well as a verb. (Words like this are sometimes called nerbs or ambilogisms.)