No. 145: "Standard Features"

By Randy Cohen

I give the headline, you give the story. From Thursday's London Evening Standard: "Blow to Singer With No Sideways"

by 5 p.m. ET Sunday to e-mail your answer to newsquiz@slate.com.

Responses to Wednesday's question (No. 144)--"Best Dais of Your Life":

A major U.S. corporation will spend three years and $200 million to install customer-friendly equipment, including small, mobile, battery-powered podiums. What are the podiums for?

"Amazon.com will deliver author readings directly to your home, rendering bookstores yet more obsolete. Most of the $200 million is being spent not on the podiums themselves but rather on the small, mobile, battery-powered Frank and Malachy McCourts who will stand behind them."--Daniel Radosh

"Disney World's new 'presidential debates' bumper cars."--Matthew Singer (James Urbaniak had a similar answer referencing poetry at Barnes & Noble.)

"Who cares? It's an Internet company. BUY!"--Doug Ingram (similarly, Ellen Scordato)

"If you're saying they're not urinals, I'm really embarrassed."--Steven Miller

"Mice. It's the cutest darn thing you've ever seen."--Tim Carvell (similarly, with a Ross Perot chaser, Carl Spratt and Russ Evansen)