We had a fantastic response to our last quiz and we thank everyone who entered. The winner was Don Castereast of Doncaster East. Fine work Don. For the record, the answers were as follows:
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True. Victoria has a government. There are buildings, offices, letterhead and everything.
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False. The police answering machine does not say ‘Mr Overland is no longer with the firm. To leave a message for Mr Ryan please press 1’.
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A catherine wheel is a firework which, when lit, rotates at high speed, giving off sparks and flames of many colours. Andy Murray is a Scottish tennis player.
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False. The Liberal Party doesn’t have factions. It has competing gangs of high-minded individuals.
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False. The Greek economy is not for sale. The receivers, Eurobail, are confident they can trade their way out of any difficulties provided the concept of a taxation system can be explained to the freedom-loving peoples of the area.
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True. The anniversary of Kevin Rudd’s replacement by Julia Gillard as Prime Minister was huge last week because a year ago the media helped precipitate the crisis and were in Canberra when it happened, explaining its importance.
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False. There is no programme on Australian television in which people cook and lose weight while renovating units for famous people to dance in. Perhaps if all the children join hands….
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False. Bernard Tomic is not available on the approved pharmaceuticals list.
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True. Senator David Bushby was practicing his cat impression during Senate Estimates Hearings. (He is 45)
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Etihad Stadium. The sun sometimes shines in the Antarctic and there are penguins leaping brilliantly out of the water on to icebergs.
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The pictures show (a) Malcolm Turnbull and (b) an aircraft in a holding pattern. There is no connection between them.
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True. NBN is a system for filling the area underneath Australia with blue wire. This is going well.
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The photo shows, left to right; Paul Howes.
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False. ‘Peter Reith and the four vice-presidents’ is not a band. They were just part of the chorus for the hit musical ‘Stockdale’.
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True. Andrew Demetriou’s salary was grounded for several days due to an ash cloud.
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Kim Duthie is a young woman who keeps changing her story and attracting media attention in increasingly implausible ways. Tony Abbott is the Leader of the Opposition.
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False. The ALP was formed in 1891 and exists only in Australia. There are not ‘numerous of them in Switzerland’. The Swiss Alps are a different concept altogether and seem to be working well.
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True. $81,000 for printer toner cartridges is about normal.
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True. Collingwood have played interstate games. Several of them. There was one in 1927, another in the late 1960s and there’s one penciled in for 2015, at Etihad.
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The photo shows Julia Gillard’s media advisors. The crèche is somewhere in the Canberra area.
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