Thursday, April 24, 2008

A number of items

The puzzles were:

1) Kentucky is demographically favorable for Clinton although the state's major cities, Louisville and Lexington, are home to a number of black voters.

Answer: One is a number. So is a googal and three-fifths and even zero. Which one fits the count of black voters in Louisville and Lexington?

2) Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle backs the Illinois senator, as does current Sen. Tim Johnson and Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin, the state's lone member of Congress.

Answer: If South Dakota has only one member of Congress, why did the writer list two? Actually South Dakota has three, two senators and one representative. Herseth-Sandlin is the state's lone member of the House. But she has as many last names as South Dakota's entire Senate delegation.

Today's challenge:
How could you write the following better?
She was awarded the first-place trophy after defeating all the other contestants.

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