"They're taking something that's about as likely to happen as a meteorite falling on your head and telling everybody that it could happen any time," said Dr. Merlin D. Tuttle, about those worry warts at the New York State Health Department. Name that exaggerated (or not) danger.

Send your answer by noon ET Wednesday to newsquiz@slate.com.

Monday's Question (No. 314)--"A Chaucer, Not an Echo":

Fill in the blank as David Mixner, a gay rights advocate, praises President Clinton at a black-tie fund-raising dinner in Los Angeles: "Ever since The Canterbury Tales--strange crew that was--people have been judged by their ____________. And we picked a good one in 1992."

"Grete horses buttokes."--Daniel Radosh (Ellen Macleay and Floyd Elliott had similar answers, but in modern English.)

"Ability to accept specious Pardoner's Tales."--Adam Bonin

"Sely instrument. Hey, look, I made a dirty joke in Middle English! My college English professors would be so proud of me, if they weren't all dead or senile."--Floyd "Loving the Tavern Better Than the Shop" Elliot

"Pandering. No, wait, that's Troilus and Cressida. Hey, somebody call Vernon Jordan and find out where the hell that girl is with the pizza."--Alison Rogers

"Ability to say one thing while doing the exact opposite. (HELLO?? Gay people?? He signed the Preservation of Marriage Act! Christ on a crutch, what does he have to do to lose your support, stab David Geffen with a kitchen knife??)"--Eric Berlin (similarly, Chris Thomas)