News Quiz Sep. 13, 1999

The object above is the:

a) Backside cache from Apple's new G4 desktop

b) Charred evidence from the Branch Davidian compound

c) Oldest known pencil in the world, owned by Count von Faber-Castell

d) Souvenir French astronaut Jean-Pierre Haignere took when abandoning Mir

e) Toy that Ty Inc. will make instead of Beanie Babies

Answer: c (it's about 300 years old)

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