Daily Round Up! Mystery Edition Part Deux
1) “A thirty-five-year-old man on death row in _______ faces execution tonight for a murder he didn’t commit. Jeff Wood is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6:00 p.m., unless Governor ________ grants him clemency. Wood was an accomplice in a 1996 convenience store robbery. He was sitting in a truck outside when the clerk was shot and killed. The man who pulled the trigger was executed six years ago, but Wood was given a death sentence for the same crime under the Texas law of parties.”
2) The ________ state senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would make it illegal for drivers to keep pets on their laps. “If you have an animal that gets in your face or gets tangled up in your steering wheel while you’re driving, you can’t properly control (the car),” _______ told the Sacramento Bee earlier this year.
3) “A _______ Court on Monday said that a terror suspect being held at _____________ had a credible argument that the United States had illegally spirited him away to _______ and that he was tortured there.
4) “An ________ actor has been barred from leaving _____ after closely guarded details emerged of her starring role with Leonardo DiCaprio in a forthcoming Hollywood spy thriller about a hunt for an al-Qaida leader.”
5) _________’s half-brother has been tracked down in a ________ slum.
6) “More than _____ people were killed Thursday when two suicide bombers attacked ________ largest weapons manufacturing complex, just north of the capital…”
7) “Most states don’t recognize ________ but now _______ does. The nation’s largest greeting card company is rolling out _______ wedding cards featuring two tuxedos, overlapping hearts or intertwined flowers, with best wishes inside. “Two hearts. One promise,” one says.”
8 ) “Drinking __________ may not be as healthy an option as thought — they could reduce the effectiveness of some medicines, it is being claimed.”
9) “This new Sundance documentary winner ________ describes the following: On August 7 1974, ________ achieved his masterpiece: walking across the towers of the _____________ in downtown New York as a stunned crowd gathered below. He and his crew had had to creep up both structures in twin teams, and then attach the wire by literally firing across the initial guiding rope from one tower to the other with a bow and arrow. It was the epat to end all epats : a sensational piece of victimless criminal daring which required enormous cunning and discipline…”
10) “Officials say an indigenous _________ reptile regarded as one of the last living remnants of the ______ will become a father for the first time in decades at the age of _______.”
2) California; Assemblyman Bill Maze
3) British; Guantanamo Bay; Morocco
6) 60; Pakistan
7) Gay marriage; Hallmark; same-sex
