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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THE WINNER: “Enhancing the Stone”
SECOND PLACE: “The Smoothed Operators”
THIRD PLACE: “Pebble Breach”
“Every Trick in the Brook”
“Stone Cold Millers”
“The Skim-Scam Man”
“Skim Shady”
“A Well-Rounded Plot”
“Dirty Rockin’ Scoundrels”
“Operation Blank Slate”
“The Riverbank Job”
“The Rock Ness Consters”
“The Grind Scheme of Things”
“Skip to the Rules, My Darling”
“Rounding Error”
“Shame of Throwns”
“Throwing Shadiness”
“Scotched on the Rocks”
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