Lisa Nowak
publication date: Sunday, February 18, 2007 (part of Round XXIX)
category: 
Science
clue: In space, no one can hear the woman having an affair with your boyfriend scream.
explanation: Nowak was an astronaut accused of attempting to murder the woman she believed was having an affair with her boyfriend. The event made headlines two weeks before the goo was published. more…
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Justin Woods, Denise Sawicki, Joanna Woods, Mike Rothstein, Steve Dunn, Amy Austin, Mike Eberhart, Aaron Shurtleff, David Mitzman, Elliot Farney, Jerry Mathis, Tony Peters, Scott Horowitz, Megan Baxter, Chris McKinnon, Mihai Rusu, Michael Paul Cote, Todd Brotsch, Adrianne Rodgers, Kerry Odell, Josh Paddison, and Joy Dunn
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