No. 357: "2, 4, 6, 8, Who Do We Indoctrinate?"
Federal District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. said it "had the effect of advancing religion through government-sponsored religious indoctrination." What did?
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Monday's Question (No. 356) "Jesus 2000"
One thousand six hundred seventy-eight people from 19 countries entered a contest called "Jesus 2000" sponsored by the National Catholic Reporter, an independent weekly based in Kansas City, Mo. What did the contestants have to do?
"Take a leper to work."--Neal Pollack
"Raise Kevin Costner's career from the dead."--Andrew Milner
"Oh, yuck, is that the spitting thing?"--Floyd Elliot
"Two thousand laps around the city of Bethlehem in really souped-up cool cars."--Merrill Markoe (Marshall Efron, Steven Davis, and Adam Bonin had similar answers.)
"This is one of those tricky SAT math questions, right?"--Ellen Macleay
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