Fark's Weird News Quiz (Bong Dynasty Edition)

(July 16) -- Editor's note: How well do you follow weird news? Find out with this strange news quiz from our obsessive friends at Fark.com. Test your knowledge, and check your answers below.

1. Now that it's summer, state fairs are in full swing. Among the new weird foods offered this year, one bizarre new fairground favorite is:
a) Deep-fried cinnamon spaghetti twists
b) Python kebobs
c) Carbonated cola ice cream on gummi sticks

2. A midyear contender for Mother of the Year is the woman who:
a) Was pulled over on the freeway with her baby in a loose car seat in the bed of her truck
b) Hosed blood off the sidewalk after her sons beat up a neighbor, then went inside to play Facebook games
c) Texted over a dozen of her daughter's friends with a naked photo of her daughter "to teach her the consequences of being a slut"

3. The National Institutes of Health announced that it awarded researchers a government grant of nearly $200,000 so they can study:
a) The wave motions of different types of riots
b) The life cycles of Internet memes and Facebook trends
c) The effects of cocaine on the sex drives of quails

4. In Romania, there is a new political party emerging. According to the current spokesperson, the political party's main ideals include:
a) Fines for infidelity, blonde jokes and being overweight, with an emphasis on punishing ugly people
b) That all creatures are sentient, including trees, and deserve parliamentary representation
c) Restoring Romania's musical heritage through new rules established by the "Thousand Notes" party that would require all schoolchildren to learn traditional panpipes

5. Archaeologists excavating a dig site in China's Gobi Desert announced that they discovered a 2,700-year-old grave that had something unusual in it. What was it?
a) A medallion that depicts a face that looks very much like President Obama's
b) A "time pole" made of black glass with astronomical etchings and timeline markings that go through the year 2887
c) A stash of really, really old marijuana

6. A man filed a lawsuit against his former school district, after he suffered a traumatic event while employed by them:
a) His former physics students built a TSA-style body scanner and distributed a "naked" picture of him to their friends
b) He was struck by an unmanned golf cart at a high school football game
c) His name was misspelled in the yearbook, and the typo is a euphemism for sexual inadequacy

7. One forward-thinking designer believes that he has a solution to human shelter for the next century. What is it?
a) Underground cities 230 feet below the surface of the earth, with drip-wells and natural fiber-optic lighting
b) Converting plastic waste into pre-fabricated loc-blocks that are waterproof, are sun-resistant and snap together
c) Home structures built entirely of lab-grown meat, with fat for insulation and bone supports

8. Researchers announced a breakthrough in military technology. Specifically, they were pleased that they had created:
a) Bulletproof custard for armor
b) "Owl vision" infrared windshield coatings
c) Light-bending alloys which mimic invisibility

9. In other military technology news, another country has also rolled out its own new technology. The country is:
a) Israel, which has deployed over 14,000 underwater globes that measure sound, movement and heat
b) South Korea, whose DMZ is now monitored by armed robots
c) The Royal Australian Navy, which has developed a way to store beer in flat sheets at room temperature

10. This week marked a momentous occasion as dozens gathered one evening for a memorial service to honor:
a) Canada geese
b) The symbolic death of Lebron James' Cleveland career
c) A pair of cartoon characters

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