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Tuesday, March 19

Supposedly, Saddam Hussein donated 50 pints of his own blood over the course of two years to write out a Koran. But this is improbable, since the maximum recommended donation over a year is five or six pints. Either way, he put it in Baghdad's Mother of All Battles Mosque, itself notable for minarets shaped like Scud missiles. After he was removed, the Koran presented a problem: Its creation from human blood was blasphemous, but destroying a Koran is also blasphemous.

In what 1942 movie is everybody after some letters of transit?

A) "Casablanca"

B) "The Maltese Falcon"

C) "The Man Who Knew Too Much"

D) "North by Northwest"

Previous answer: The Police were blond.

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