We had a fantastic response to the Easter quiz and we thank everyone who entered. The winner was Trav Encore, of Travencore. Great work Trav and very nicely done. For the record, the answers were as follows:
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True. The media’s decision that Australia should tip out the current government and replace it with the Opposition is set to be ratified in mid-September, reports say.
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False. MYKI has not required a series of bailouts. $10 billion is a perfectly reasonable development cost for a new type of tram ticket.
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False. Not all Bernard Tomic’s tennis lessons are broadcast live on national television.
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False. The Drug Loopholes are not an AFL team.
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Incorrect. John Steffensen was not discriminated against on the grounds of race but on the grounds of racing.
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False. Cervantes did not write a novel called Jeff Quixote about a man who expressed mutually exclusive opinions and attacked windmills in the belief that they were giants.
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False. In Australia we don’t have a Fiscal Cliff. We have a Fiscal Glen, which is warm and soft and protected from inclement weather.
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True. 8.5 tons of fireworks were purposely set alight over the Xmas/New Year period at several locations around the metropolitan area. Police say a Mr Doyle is helping them with their inquiries.
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‘Epic Fail’ is an exciting new expression meaning a very slight momentary embarrassment on a matter of no possible importance.
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True. The Tullamarine Freeway is slow and inefficient and there’s no viable alternative. ‘Yes, we’ll certainly get on to that’ said Premier Napthine. ‘Where is it?’
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False. The closure of hospital beds in Victoria has nothing to do with the Government of Victoria.
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False. There is no ‘snooze’ button on the Victorian government.
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True. Radio National is now called RN and most of the programmes are about spirituality, although there are exceptions; The National News, for example, which is about Sydney.
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False. At no time during the conversation between Oprah and Lance Armstrong did either of them speak while the other drank a glass of water.
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True. Waiters used to approach tables, welcome the customers and ask if there was anything they could get them. They now saunter up at some point and say ‘Hey guys’.
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True. Dorothea McKeller was Australia’s leading meteorologist. She produced a beautifully worded and completely accurate 150 year forecast for an entire continent.
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True. Jeff Kennett has warned that if Victoria isn’t prepared to lose millions more each year, it will lose the Grand Prix. Jeff sees this as a complex moral dilemma.
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False. The new pontiff and Bishop of Rome is His Holiness Pope Francis. At no stage is he to be addressed as Pope Frank.
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The marketing of Victorian football to the rest of the country has been so successful there is now enough money to attempt to save the Melbourne team.
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False. The picture is entitled ‘The Scream’, by Edvard Munch. Andrew Demetriou is the head of the AFL.
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