Editor
AUSTIN, Texas - The news this week included a long-awaited match pitting Man against a computer on the popular show Jeopardy! As could be expected in the Era of The Lazy Brain, the IBM computer kicked butt, easily outclassing the show's two all-time champions - Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. So much for Man and his brainpower.
Here, then, we throw some questions at you and allow you the chance to exhibit your smarts. Be honest. You'll only be hurting yourself by cheating.
(1.) It is named after a Spanish priest and is often the ground for cavorting teenagers and adulterers:
a.) What is Brownsville?
b.) What is Matamoros?
c.) What is South Padre Island?
(2.) He is a native of the state of California:
a.) Who is blogger Bobby Wightman-Cervantes?
b.) Who is Blogger Jerry Deal?
c.) Who is Blogger Jerry McHale?
(3.) This Democrat recently changed political parties and is now a Republican:
a.) Aaron Burr
b.) Aaron Pena
(4.) He was convicted of DWI and reckless driving late last year:
a.) Blogger Tony Chapa
b.) Blogger Bobby Wightman-Cervantes
c.) Blogger Juan Montoya
(5.) She is a native of Pleasanton and now a city commissioner in the Rio Grande Valley:
a.) Melissa Vega
b.) Melissa Zamora
c.) Melissa Manchester
(6.) He is a Harlingen blogger known for stirring emotions and alleged to be from Mexico:
a.) Toni Chapa
b.) Big Mama Chapa
c.) Tony Chapa
(7.) He is the face of the border's fight against the Border Wall and the mayor of Brownsville:
a.) Pat Corrales
b.) Pat Ahumada
c.) Patrick Alcatraz
(8.) She is probably the best-known woman to ever come out of the Valley:
a.) Rachel McLish
b.) Kori Marra
c.) Selena
(9.) He moonlights as a P.R. man for semi-pro baseball in the Valley:
a.) Blogger Jerry Deal
b.) Harlingen Mayor Chris Boswell
(10.) The City of Weslaco is named after:
a.) Well-known Pioneer Bob Weslaco
b.) The W.E. Stewart Land Company
c.) A long-lost RGV Indian tribe
Good luck. We'll post the correct answers later today...
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29 comments:
Think i got 7 answers right. Is that passing? Good post.
i got 9 right for sure. the weslaco one threw me. wanna know what that one is. Thanks.
5 here. I should know all of them! these tests keep me humble, Mr. Editor.
I hear TC is from Mexico. He won't produce a birth certificate. pero es un sonso. No one reads his dead blog anymore after Jerry deal silenced his ass.
Interesting test. How much do i know? not everything. i'll check the answers.
Common Patrick, Korry Marra is not famous, well she might be at the local watering holes, and now it is reported the IRS, put liens on her property.
And she is a Commissioner, what??????? HARLINGEN, why am I not surprise, Harlingen, as my good buddy, an inspector for TDH use to say, nothing but, "Salvage", puro scrape.
Looking for answers to the Weslaco question. we'll see.
By the way, who in the world is Korry Marrana??? I had never heard of her, is she the lady with the Mexican hat???
Kori Marra is not the right answer for that question. am I right?
9 out of 10 right! I think. tough test and yes we should know these.
things are heating up in Harlingen. people are getting together to plan the overthrow of the Old Guard. News coming!
Kori Marra went 5 years without paying her payroll taxes? Wow! How could she not know? something's weird here. fess up, Marra. tell the whole truth.
jerry Deal's blog is back but he is not asking Kori Marra the tough questions. How could she let the taxes lag? mystery to Deal. How come, Jerry?
deal comes at Marra with soft hands. He won't go for the jugular and thinks that just by writing something he is off he hook. We need hard-ass journalism! Harlingen cannot support going easy on its elected officials. Come on, Jerry!
They probably drink at the same place. Although, I hope Jerry is past that.
The New Pac, will have to provide a way to take the good golly, mrs. Molly face, and expose Korri for what she is: A fail politician.
She has made a comment on Jerry's blog. Short, but damn, 5 years a long time. Some Character who blogs under factoid, is defending her. Probably, one of her cronies. Vieja loca, she is an embarrassment to harlingen. Politiquera.
Huh? Why did Houston refuse the body of the ICE agent? because he's Mexican? strange shit.
The state of Texas is becoming the old Missippi of the South, nothing but red necks.
ANONYMOUSES:...As we undertand it, Houston could not perform the autopsy because the agent's body was recovered outside Harris County. Doing it would have violated state law. Additionally, officials of the Harris County coroner's office said they feared evidence uncovered in the local autopsy would have been thrown out in court. This, of course, if the agent's killers were ever prosecuted in the U.S. Plus, they said the federal mortuary in Delaware was better-equipped to do the job on a high-profile case with international ramifications. Don't think the agent's ethnicity had anything to do with it.. - Editor
we still don't know what the ICE agents were doing so deep into Mexico. why not? You can't go shaking the bee's nest without expecting a sting. Maybe their supervisor ought to be fired. My guess is they'll neve rfind the killers. Mexico will round up a half-dozen Mexicans and parade them for the press. The agents will still be dead. It's a sham!
ICE being in Mexico is weird. They're immigration. Not CIA.
kori marra won't even say she should've known about the nonpayment of taxes. she blamed an employee. take responsibility!
Chickenbuckets.blogspot.com has the paperwork on her blog. What a fraud, that woman has a screw missing. There is also a picture of her drinking sometype of tea.
Fact oid and couple of defenders are trying to make stories for her. Pinche vieja loca, no vale madre.
Marra is Old Guard, so Old Guard will defend her. She should hold a press conference to explain herself.
She has nothing to defend, everyone knows she parties hard. Just about every picture on the inter-net, she is either with a bucket full of beer and watery eyes, and holding drinks on her hand. What a poor excuse of a woman. Instead of running the city, she should be going to Alcoholics anonymous. Factoid, you're an enabler.
The old codgers, (Patrick's words) are defending her. Korry, has her defenders. There is a saying that says, that a picture is worth 1000 words. Factoid, quit trying to justify her actions, they are indefensible, resign, Korry, please resign.
Perhaps if she go through rehab. Alcoholics anonymous or some other such program. Poor woman.
Missed two answers, don't know Mchale background, and the Weslaco question.
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