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Writer Jonah Lehrer got in hot water this week for falsifying Bob Dylan quotes in his best-selling (and now recalled) book Imagine: How Creativity Works. I tried to enlist Lehrer to invent the three wrong choices for each question on this week's quiz?always the hardest part?but he didn't get back to me.

Question 1 of 12

Fill in the blanks: More than 200,000 people have fled _______ in the last two days to avoid _______.

Question 2 of 12

"It's unreasonable that we're fighting over rectangles," Kevin Packingham told the press this week. What fight was he referring to?

Apple has sued Samsung, claiming the Korean company's devices borrow too heavily from the iPhone and iPad.

Question 3 of 12

Dictator Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus fired his air defense general Wednesday after a Swedish plane was able to enter the country's airspace and drop its fearsome cargo of what?

The teddy bears wore parachutes and human rights slogans targeting the Belarusian regime.

Question 4 of 12

Mitt Romney announced this week that his choice of running mate will be announced via what unusual means?

Question 5 of 12

Since 1962, Citizen Kane has never trailed in Sight & Sound magazine's every-10-years poll of the greatest films of all time?until this week. What two films led the latest critics' and directors' polls instead?

Question 6 of 12

Angus King, the candidate leading the race in Maine for Olympia Snowe's Senate seat, has made headlines by refusing to disclose what?

Question 7 of 12

NBC News reported this week that Atlanta resident Thomas Tolbert was recently reprimanded by Disney World security for what unusual offense?

Tolbert, a professional Santa, was asked to change his clothes and refuse photos with children. "Santa would never tell people that!" he complained.

Question 8 of 12

Fans of 1990s hip-hop were shocked this week by what unexpected name change?

Question 9 of 12

Harvard and Caltech scientists have created the "Medusoid," an artificial jellyfish made from what?

The creature?genetically a rat, though it swims like a jellyfish?may provide a breakthrough in artificial heart technology.

Question 10 of 12

It was announced Wednesday that the controversial figure John Pike is no longer working for his former employer. What was Pike's 2011 claim to fame?

Question 11 of 12

At a military base protest in Washington this week, members of the Westboro Baptist Church were vastly outnumbered by 300 picketers dressed as what?

Locals organized the zombie counterprotest via a Facebook group and spent the day staggering around just eight church protestors.

Question 12 of 12

Whose unlikely byline appears on the short story "Thanks for the Light" in this week's issue of The New Yorker?

Fitzgerald's story was turned down by The New Yorker in 1936, but his grandchildren recently rediscovered it in his papers.

You got 8 out of 12 answers correct in 20 minutes 30 seconds.

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