2016 MLK: Errata

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2016 MLK: Errata

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Post about errors here.
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The tossup on Jesus Christ from Islam clues didn't list Isa as an answer.
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Packet 5:
8. He posed as an inmate at Folsom Prison to investigate the conditions of schools in a Los Angeles neighborhood following the Watts Riots. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this one-time mayor of San Francisco who became the first, and thus far only, sitting U.S. representative to be assassinated when he was shot in Guyana in 1978.
ANSWER: Leo Ryan [or Leo Joseph Ryan, Jr.]
Leo Ryan was in fact mayor of South San Francisco, a separate and far less important municipality.
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I'm pretty sure Mary's not breastfeeding in Gerard Davi'ds Rest on the Flight into Egypt, at least not the one in DC (is there another one?).
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Short-beaked echidna wrote:I'm pretty sure Mary's not breastfeeding in Gerard Davi'ds Rest on the Flight into Egypt, at least not the one in DC (is there another one?).
It seems you're right, I don't remember where I got that from, but I evidently should have looked more closely at the painting.
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women, fire and dangerous things wrote:
Short-beaked echidna wrote:I'm pretty sure Mary's not breastfeeding in Gerard Davi'ds Rest on the Flight into Egypt, at least not the one in DC (is there another one?).
It seems you're right, I don't remember where I got that from, but I evidently should have looked more closely at the painting.

She is in Caravaggio's painting of the same name.
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