Nov 9 -- 15, Friday's Fun Horrifying News Quiz... Name that Place

UPDATED -- D2R2 almost gets all the answers Correct! Five out of 7 isn't bad... 71.4 %
by Pat Darnell
"It came pretty fast," said Tyler Rollema, a 19-year-old sophomore who was eating dinner in the cafeteria when students were told to head to the gym. "We came out and it was just blazing."
Thousands of feet above the flames, footage shot from television helicopters showed what initially looked like a massive campfire with dozens of glowing embers. When cameras zoomed in, however, what appeared to be flaring coals turned out to be houses — many of them sprawling estates — gutted by flame. Palm trees were lit like burning matches.
"It looked like lava coming down a volcano," Leslie Hollis Lopez said as she gathered belongings from her house. (THOMAS WATKINS, AP; today)

A. What place are we talking about here, in the news...

1. Tschernobyl
2. Xoxocotlan, Mexico
3. Gammel Sukkertoppen, Greenland
4. Tony community of Montecito, CA
5. Pompeii
   

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Yesterday, the W$J reported that General Motors may not be able to avoid bankruptcy because of political problems involved in obtaining a bailout loan package from the federal government.

GM is "rapidly burning through cash reserves as car sales plummet and their access to credit tightens. GM has warned it may run out of money within months without outside help."

From what I [SOURCE] can tell, no one is calling for the scalp of GM CEO Rick Wagoner because of confident public statements that he made just a few months ago about his company.

B. Who was prosecuted to death for promoting his company, even though he had a reasonable basis for believing that what he was saying about his company was true.

1. Elvis is dead
2. Oprah Winfrey
3. Ken Lay
4. 40 acres and a mule
5. Jerry Jones

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Over 11,200 people sent photographs ... to be entered in the contest, and their pictures received more than 31.8 million votes. Finalists made their case in a choreographed runway show in Paris. (Nov 14th 2008; By Tom Radle; HERE)

C. What Contest do the pundits speak of?

1. Sarah Palin Undergarments look-alike Contest of Wasilla
   
2. Voici! Le monde des plus belles fesses concours Sloggi d Francais
   
3. Tina Turner Shufflin' Contest of Detroit
   
4. 1 and 3
5. Re-count Florida 2000 Votes Referendum
   
6. We've often wept at the sight of a transcendent one Contest of Brazil
   

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Fire chief was recovering Thursday from an apparent heart attack suffered while battling a fire.. Officials said Marcus Hilton fell ill while working to extinguish the fire at __________. Chief Hilton was taken to hospital, where his condition was upgraded from critical to fair Thursday night. Officials said the fire burned for nearly 10 hours and destroyed the building. A motorist noticed the fire around 6 a.m.

The County Judge Jan Roe [had] denied application for a liquor license in October 2007, saying the business "will likely result in jeopardy of the general welfare, health, peace, morals, safety and sense of decency of the community and general public." (Janet Phelps, 11.14.08; HERE)

D. Where did this torch job happen yesterday?

1. East St. Louis
2. Tschernobyl
3. Xoxocotlan, Mexico
4. Hearne, Texas
5. Gammel Sukkertoppen, Greenland
6. Tony community of Montecito, CA
7. Pompeii

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"If your skin isn't thick enough, ...there were plenty of times I wanted to shout out and say 'Hey wait a minute; that isn't true'"... (SOURCE) "Would you want to do it again, Sister?"

E. Where was this said:

1. Shouted from a Camaro on Booneville Road in Marthasville, MO
2. Sarah at home
3. At a tailgate party in Maine ...
4. Heard from the galley on Ted Kennedy's Yacht

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The club arranged to borrow at least $450 million through Banc of America Securities for its portion, with the first $126 million through the ARS market. But [the owner] agreed to cover cost overruns as part of the team’s share, and like many stadiums in this period, the price has spiraled.

The estimated ... cost $650 million when they announced the project in 2004. With $350 million of public funding and $76 million from the [Football League], it looked like a choice deal for the team. “Everyone is looking at the ... deal. It is a huge bellwether,” said one finance source. “This is one of the only deals, period, in the market ...sports or otherwise.”

The club’s proposed deal would refinance $126 million the team borrowed last year through the now-imploded auction-rate securities market, as well as add new debt to cover cost overruns at the team’s $1.2 billion stadium that is set to open next year, the sources said.

One pundit ponders: "H'mm. I wonder whether the [club] will apply for a portion of the TARP fund, [which is called the Troubled Asset Relief Program, TARP] too?" (SOURCE)

F. Who, What and Where?

1. the New Vienna Red Hot stand at Northwestern Dyke Stadium
2. US Government direct investment in financial firms everywhere
3. America's Team billion dollar stadium
4. Bellwether Deals Anonymous in Salt Lake City, UTe
5. Save the TARP Seals of Snowbound Indochina, because of Global Warming
   

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G. Where is this video taken?

1. su una barca a retro di Angelina O'Lisa
2. Sul traghetto...per la Corsica
3. su una barca a il Papa non mangiare opposum
4. su una barca a Nel corso di una parte posteriore in Maine
5. nessuno di questi sopra
6. nessuno di questi al di sotto
7. su una barca ai filetti distretto di San Francisco [Source]
   

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Next week, Friday Fun Quiz will be about "Hey, all young people learn first to enjoy illicit sexual relations... so what would you expect the divorce rate to be other wise for monogamous marital relations?"

I know: "You can't wait... Just hold onto those thinking caps, and see you beanies next Friday."
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We have an almost right: D2R2 got all but two right and wins this cool T-shirt: Anyone else?