We had a fantastic response to our last quiz and we thank everyone who entered. The winner was Clyde North, of Clyde North. For the record, the answers were as follows:
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True. Scott Morrison apologised for the timing of his remarks. He very sensibly realised that the timing of his remarks was offensive and that he might have been wiser to make the remarks at another time. Never, perhaps.
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True. Both the Leader and the Deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition are through to the quarter-finals of the World Staring championships. If things continue to go well, they will meet in the final.
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True. It is very important what Mr Kennett thinks of the national anthem. Say what you like about Jeff, he made the songs run on time.
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True. The decision to allow cattle to graze in national parks in the Victorian high country has been made on the basis that it is ‘a trial.’ If the cattle compact the land, trash the native vegetation and defecate in the water, they will be allowed to stay.
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False. Peter Ryan is not the Premier. Ted Baillieu is the Premier. Peter just helps.
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True. Kevin Rudd and Therese Rein have bought a house. In Australia a great many people live in houses. Please try to remain awake.
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Correct. The Allan Border Medal night is an occasion for women in expensive frocks, and their escorts, who are drawn from all walks of life.
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True. The AFL is completely different from Rugby League, which is plagued by drug issues and sex scandals.
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False. Hosni Mubarak has not been approached by Richmond. He is at the latter end of his career and is thought to be battling weight and salary-cap issues.
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Electricity prices. Say what you like about Jeff, he made the songs run on time.
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True. Large sections of the Australian media were devastated when the recent floods failed to actually catch fire and explode as Cyclone Yasi ‘slammed into’ the Australian coastline several hours' drive from where reporters were modelling raincoats. Fortunately no one had cleaned the drains in Melbourne since 1979, so at least there were road closures locally, and traffic problems and attractive random fountains.
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The photo shows a football team on its annual holiday trip. The other images are the running of the bulls at Pamplona and a cross section of the human brain.
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True. The NSW state election will be on March 26. Anyone who would like to win it should get up there by the 15th. The loser has already been determined.
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False. Harry Lime was not a cricketer. He is a central character in The Third Man, by Grahame Greene.
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Sir William Wallace was a Scottish nationalist. Sir William Orpen was an Irish painter. There was no such person as Sir William Shorten.
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Tony Abbott. The video shows him confirming that he has the party’s full support. That’s Malcolm Turnbull in the background, limbering up, doing a few leg stretches and that Merv Hughes thing with his shoulders.
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True. Gerard Henderson stresses, when expressing his views on climate science, that he is not a climate scientist. There is, one often feels, too little of this sort of courtesy left in the modern world.
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False. Barnaby Joyce did not require a sea-worthiness certificate for his Landcruiser. When he experienced problems with the keel, he headed her up into the wind, got out and walked to the nearest farmhouse.
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True. The most commonly used words in Australia during the first two months of 2011 were ‘inundation’ and ‘redaction’. Inundation is a feature of La Nina and redaction is putting your pants back on.
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True. The news that major book retailers had collapsed was a trending subject on twitter.