No. 45: "Threes"

By Randy Cohen

What is "the Federal Triangle," and why is it news?

by noon ET Thursday to e-mail your answer (NewsQuiz@slate.com).

Responses to Tuesday's question (No. 44)--"Sixes":

What is the significance of these numbers:

$66,000,000; $600,000; $600.51?

"Amount IRS says I owe it; amount accountant says I owe him if he is to extricate me from IRS's mistake; amount I actually made."--Patty Marx

"Admission prices to Disney's new Animal Kingdom. In descending order: family of four, first date couple, PETA ex who's always wanted to slap around an emu."--Beth Sherman

"They represent the descending street value--tabulated two years ago at her marriage, last Christmas, and yesterday, respectively--of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's pancreas, were it to be illegally harvested by renegade Chinese organ poachers."--David Rakoff

"Amount I fantasize the sex will be worth; amount I realistically think the sex will be worth; amount I actually pay."--Brian Danenberg