{"id":97,"date":"2007-02-21T06:28:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T11:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/97"},"modified":"2017-08-01T17:42:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T22:42:56","slug":"the-headline-game-22107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/97","title":{"rendered":"The Headline Game &#8211; 2\/21\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s absolutely nothing to work with today at <a href=http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/ target=_blank><em>The Onion<\/em><\/a>.  The fake headlines are all clearly fake headlines.  So instead, this week I invite you to play a different game.  Sorry for the last minute substitution.<\/p>\n<p>Six of the twelve names below have been the Secretary General of the United Nations.  The other six are characters from <em>Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace<\/em>.  Can you tell the historical names from the fantastical?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Padme Amidala<\/li>\n<li>Kofi Annan<\/li>\n<li>Jar Jar Binks<\/li>\n<li>Boutros-Boutros Gali<\/li>\n<li>Lord Gladwyn Jebb<\/li>\n<li>Qui-Gon Jinn<\/li>\n<li>Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/li>\n<li>Ban Ki-Moon<\/li>\n<li>Trygve Halvdan Lie<\/li>\n<li>U Thant<\/li>\n<li>Chancellor Finis Valorum<\/li>\n<li>Mace Windu<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Bonus Question: Can you pick out the current UN Secretary General from the list?<\/p>\n<p>Answers: <a href=http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120915\/fullcredits#cast target=_blank>Phantom Menace<\/a>, <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UN_secretary_general#Secretaries-General target=_blank>United Nations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How did you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s absolutely nothing to work with today at The Onion. The fake headlines are all clearly fake headlines. So instead, this week I invite you to play a different game. Sorry for the last minute substitution. Six of the twelve names below have been the Secretary General of the United Nations. The other six are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-headline-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6225,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/6225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}