No. 147: "Australia, Convicts, George III?"

By Randy Cohen

"This seems like the perfect place to release them." Where? What? Says who?

by 10 a.m. ET Wednesday (please note the early deadline) to e-mail your answer to newsquiz@slate.com.

Responses to Monday's question (No. 146)--"Funny as a German Banker":

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.' "

"Our Teutonic sense of order demands that we acquire a company starting with the letter 'A' first."--Sam Coppersmith

"Sell off the hedge funds first."--Steven Levy

"Brat first."--Jennifer Miller (Michael Gerber had a similar answer.)

"If we're going to buy Bankers Trust, let's wait until Bob Hope dies first."--Tim Carvell

"Kill Pvt. Ryan first. (But no, Randy, that's not fair, and you know it. You can be the birthplace of Heidegger, Hegel, Leibniz, Bach, Beethoven, Brecht, and Martin Luther, but you start one little world war ... OK, two.)"--Chris Kelly