Actuarial Sightings

National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition for February 1 featured Ruy Cardoso as the on-air player for the program’s "Sunday Puzzle." Cardoso was chosen from a lottery of people who had submitted correct answers to the previous week’s puzzle. The puzzle was to name a two-word phrase appearing in the dictionary that has three sets of double letters and eight letters total. Cardoso answered 15 out of 19 questions correctly, thus, according to Cardoso, sparing his family from embarrassment. Incidentally, the answer to puzzle is goose egg.