We had a fantastic response to our last quiz and we thank everyone who entered. The winner was Edith Vale of Edithvale. For the record, the answers were as follows:
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Correct. The Bureau of Meteorology has announced Australia has just experienced its hottest decade since records began a century ago. Please; not a word of this to Senator Fielding. It might be best not to mention the tooth fairy either.
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Anti-hoon laws. These are being introduced by Police Minister Tim Holding to distract attention from the Pro-hoon laws being introduced by Planning Minister Justin Madden.
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Alexander Downer. He is the UN Special Envoy in Cyprus, charged with resolving issues between the island’s Greeks and Turks. He works part-time, speaks neither Greek nor Turkish and is from Adelaide. Bookies have him at 400/1 and drifting.
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Kathryn Bigelow. Julia Gillard was busy.
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False. John Howard did not take out the Man of the Match award. He scored a pair, dropped nine catches and his two overs included 63 wides.
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True. It was John Brumby. Someone has since explained to him that knife crimes are not caused by live music any more than tank warfare is caused by the early recordings of Tex Ritter.
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Jim Courier. Nobody knows.
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Hailstones the size of golf balls and serious flooding. Mobile phone videos of locusts, toads, volcanoes and the parting of the Red Sea are not authentic although the dinosaur eating Fed Square is very well done and not a bad idea.
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False. This photo is also obviously a fake. Julie Bishop does not have jets of solid flame coming out of her eyes. Stand up the girl who did that.
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False. When Tony Abbott said ‘Sex is one of life’s great pleasures,’ he was not endorsing the Darwinian view that breeding is an instinctive aspect of natural selection and genetic survival. From the waist up, Mr Abbott is a creationist.
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Also false. Mary McKillop was canonized. Breaker Morant was shot.
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The Rudd health plan is being considered by the states. ‘Up In The Air’ is a George Clooney movie.
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The Luge is an event in which the participant slides downhill feet first at very high speed. Peter Garrett was simply moved to a slightly different portfolio.
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Barnaby Joyce. He is now the Opposition spokesman on regional development, infrastructure and water. Workers in these areas have been asked to hide anything sharp.
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Docklands. It is the envy of the civilized world and is being moved to a new position up behind the Windsor Hotel.
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(l to r) Bog Man, Cro-Magnon Man, Homo Erectus, Wilson Tuckey, Homo Sapiens, Brendan Fevola, Modern Man.
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Melbourne. The other cities, Tokyo, Paris, London and Toronto, all have public transport systems and rail links to their airports.
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The Coalition is made up of the Liberal Party and the National Party. The All Ordinaries is a financial index.
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The Grand Prix. It loses about $50million a year and NSW wants to steal it. Perhaps if all the children join hands.
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False. ‘Whip till frothy, adding sugar’ is part of a meringue recipe. Max Markson is some kind of businessman.