This week's question: A 100-year-old giant tortoise named Diego is being allowed to retire from a captive-breeding program in the Galapagos after helping to save his endangered species by fathering more than 800 offspring over four decades. If a movie studio were to make a rom-com about Diego's passion-filled life story, what should the film be titled?
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THE WINNER: "The Tortoise and the Harem"
Jon Braunersreuther, Tomball, Texas
SECOND PLACE: "Shellraiser"
Steven David Martin, Healdsburg, California
THIRD PLACE: "When Diego Met Sally, and Maria, and Sandra, and..."
Joe Valetti, San Leandro, California
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Plodding Hill"
Rob Knowlton, Denver, Colorado
"A Century in the Mating"
Harry Gewanter, Richmond, Virignia
"Slow and Steady Saves the Race"
Mary Jo Astrachan, Oneida, New York
"The Slow-thario"
Janine Witte, New Hope, Pennsylvania
"Romancing the Slow"
Guy J. Howell, Rochester, Minnesota
"Menage a 'toise."
Stuart Gordon, Nashville, Tennessee
"Eight (Hundred) is Enough"
Joe Frank, Scottsdale, Arizona
"Plated. Mated. Replicated"
Ivan Kershner, Salem, South Carolina
"50 First Mates"
Haley Gittleman, East Brunswick, New Jersey
"Galapagos Gallop"
Alan E. Marsh, Kirkland, Washington
"The Tortoise and the Heirs"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
"Diego Unchained"
Rob Burr, Hewitt, New Jersey
"Love Comes Slowly"
Nick Muschal, Lake Linden, Michigan
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