Third Runner-Up Answer: Cogito Ergo Something or OtherQuestion: What is a Cartesian "well?"? (Jonathan Paul, Garrett Park Jennifer Hart, Arlington)įourth Runner-Up Answer: Cogito Ergo Something or OtherQuestion: What is the Descartes-Heisenberg principle? (George Murray, Vienna Dave Ferry, Leesburg)įifth Runner-Up Answer: Gold, Frankincense and ChicletsQuestion: What gifts were bestowed upon the King of the Chews? Sixth Runner-Up Answer: Gold, Frankincense and ChicletsQuestion: What do you give when you you've given all you can and there just ain't no myrrh? Two excellent responses were too popular to reward with prizes: Answer: "Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Gaithersburg." Question: "Name four places with almost no atmosphere." And: Answer: "Congratulations! It's a Goy!" Question: "What were the first words spoken by the Three Wise Men upon the birth of Jesus?" Report from Week 305, in which we gave you "Jeopardy!" answers and invited you to supply the questions. Employees of The Washington Post and members of their immediate families are not eligible for prizes. Today's Eye Chart No One Reads was written by Ned Bent of Herndon. Editors reserve the right to alter entries for taste, humor or appropriateness. Winners will be announced three weeks from today. Important: Please include your postal address and phone number. Entries must be received on or before Monday, Feb. Also, please do not append "attachments," which tend not to be read. 20071 fax them to 20 or submit them via Internet to this address: Internet users: Please indicate the week number in the "subject" field. Mail your entries to the Style Invitational, Week 308, c/o The Washington Post, 1150 15th St.
Winners will be selected on the basis of humor and originality. Honorable Mentions get the mildly sought-after Style Invitational bumper sticker. Other runners-up receive the coveted Style Invitational Loser T-Shirt. It is worth $40.įirst runner-up gets the tacky but estimable Style Invitational Loser Pen. First-prize winner receives a rare and valuable relic, an "In Gus We Trust" Washington Redskins T-shirt, featuring a likeness of the quarterback who was the glorious future of the franchise for an entire half-season. Acka backa soda cracka / Out goes Y-O-U.") Your rhyme must (1) rhyme and (2) must conform, at least loosely, to a point-and-shoot cadence that permits the elimination of one item from a group. (By the way, a friend who grew up on the South Side of Chicago recalls a far better rhyme: "Acka backa soda cracka / Acka backa boo. Elden says kids need an updated version of those old children's selecting rhymes so they can have a hipper, more relevant way to mindlessly narrow their options by substituting pure chance for rational, critical thought. This week's contest was proposed by Elden Carnahan of Laurel, who wins a tub of Camo-Off, moistened towelettes to remove camouflage paint. Illustration by Bob Staake for The Washington Post
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