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What Are Double Headers?
Double Headers® are challenging and confounding one-page puzzles that test your creative ability to manipulate the English language.
You are presented with an image and the first paragraph of a news story. Your job is to write the story’s headline.
But, there’s one catch...
The first half of the headline must phonetically match the second half.
(SEE SAMPLE BELOW...)
Sample
Write a headline for this story
(LXXV BC • Imperial Rome) — Colosseum champion, Spartacus, was interviewed by Roman scribes yesterday after successfully defeating a ferocious lioness in the arena. In a stunning role reversal, the celebrated performance warrior proceeded to cut the beast into pieces with his sword and then devoured its flesh before the cheering crowd. Asked if he suffered any ill effects from ingesting the lioness meat, Spartacus replied: “On the contrary. I feel great and am delighted that I was able to consume that ferocious female feline...before it consumed me!”
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