This week’s question: Several competitors at the World Stone Skimming Championships in Scotland were disqualified after they were caught with “suspiciously circular” stones that had been shaped with a mechanical grinder. If Hollywood were to make a movie about this sporting scandal, what would it be titled?
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RESULTS:
THE WINNER: “Enhancing the Stone”
Rick Torrence, The Village, Oklahoma
SECOND PLACE: “The Smoothed Operators”
Mary Jo Astrachan, Oneida, New York
THIRD PLACE: “Pebble Breach”
Fred Bingman, Englewood, Florida
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“Every Trick in the Brook”
Jeff Jerome, Northampton, Massachusetts
“Stone Cold Millers”
Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Massachusetts
“The Skim-Scam Man”
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“Skim Shady”
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California
“A Well-Rounded Plot”
Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas
“Dirty Rockin’ Scoundrels”
John Parry, Eldersburg, Maryland
“Operation Blank Slate”
Diane Ross, Hatfield, Pennsylvania
“The Riverbank Job”
Gary Greene, Greenfield, Massachusetts
“The Rock Ness Consters”
Ellen Meshnick and Paul Immerman, Atlanta, Georgia
“The Grind Scheme of Things”
Claire Williams, Louisville, Kentucky
“Skip to the Rules, My Darling”
Robert Pendley, Marietta, Georgia
“Rounding Error”
Alexandra Schmidt, Niskayuna, New York
“Shame of Throwns”
DW Page, Santa Rosa, California
“Throwing Shadiness”
James Pearson, Anaheim, California
“Scotched on the Rocks”
Rob Huffman, Fredericksburg, Virginia
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