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WEEK OF OCTOBER 5

Monday, October 5

The M.C. Escher drawing called "Relativity" is notable because the stairs it depicts go nowhere. In fact, there are three different sources of gravity, one for each stairwell. The painting inspired one of the couch gags in the opening for "The Simpsons" and a gag in "The Family Guy," in which Escher sings MC Hammer''s "U Can't Touch This" within the painting. (Weird Al also joked that his favorite MC was M.C. Escher.)

Countries have their own Internet domains: Canada's is .ca, and Britain's is .uk. Even dead countries have domains. When Czechoslovakia broke up, it gave up .cs and the new bits, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, adopted .cz and .sk. The .cs domain was assigned to Serbia, but the Serbs kept using .yu, the old Yugoslavian domain.

The Soviet Union, by the way, was .su.

You've struck a deal with business contacts in the United Arab Emirates. What is the nationality of your business partners?

A) Arabesque

B) Arabemiri

C) Emirati

D) Uaeian

Previous answer: The letters in "eleven plus two" can be rearranged to spell "twelve plus one." This is an anagram.

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