No. 146: "Funny as a German Banker"

By Randy Cohen

Fill in the blank. Rolf-Ernst Breuer, chairman of Germany's Deutsche Bank, may acquire America's Bankers Trust for $9 billion despite declaring, "Our motto is '__________ first.' "

by noon ET Tuesday to e-mail your answer to newsquiz@slate.com.

Responses to Thursday's question (No. 145)--"Standard Features"--

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

"Cocaine delivery to rock stars has become so urgent that couriers are being given terse, even breathless, instructions to make no detours."--John Shade

"Seamstress Trudie Newell-Poit of Wainscotting, disgusted at her sewing machine's poor cross-stitching, smashed it with a sledgehammer in Piccadilly Circus."--Andrew "Page 3 Girl" Solovay (Jonathan Snow, Martin Willett, Steve Smith, and Karla Nedel had similarly stitcherific answers.)

"A West End hooker who once had noted novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer as a client offers reminiscences of her technique."--Tim Carvell (similarly literary, Dan Simon)

"English translations of Welsh town names."--Doug Ingram

"Don't they know Karen Carpenter is dead?"--Wendy Casey