It's Still the Olympics

While you digest the answers to last week's quiz, here is a map from the New York Times that shows how medals have been awarded in the Summer Olympics. It's kind of cool. And a medal tally to date. Go USA!

And have you all seen what Michael Phelps is eating these days? I think I need to lie down.



Answers to the quiz

1. The emperor. In China, the dragon is a benevolent, wise, auspicious male power.
2. Jesus. Hong had chanced upon translated scripture and, in a dream, had visions of himself as the brother of Jesus.
3. Soong Mei-ling, wife of Chiang Kai-shek.
4. Diving (nine medals) and shooting (nine).
5. 171.
6. Only children, lavished with attention because of China’s one-child-per-couple policy.
7. 20. But most new releases are available on bootleg DVDs within days.
   
8. “Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung,” estimated at 900 million copies (aka the Little Red Book).
9. 106.
10. Two-thirds, according to the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.