We had a fantastic response to our last quiz and we thank everyone who entered. The winner was Mal Lacoota, of Mallacoota. And great work Mal. Well done. For the record, the answers were as follows:
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False. Andrew Wilkie was not the yellow Wiggle.
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True. Credit ratings agencies have downgraded the credit ratings of European economies which lost money listening to the advice of credit ratings agencies.
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The pictures show an Italian luxury cruise ship. The Italian economy is a three funnel job and is somewhat lower in the water.
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False. It is not possible to vote for Ken Grenda to run Australia.
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True. Julia Gillard and Andrew Wilkie have changed the status of their relationship. She has unfriended him and he has unfollowed her. They don’t unlike each other but are currently offline.
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True. Newt Gingrich is technically sane. The reason he wants to go to the moon and mine minerals is that he has part of Wednesday free and is swimming to Mars on Friday.
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False. The presentations during TV coverage of the Australian Open tennis of betting odds on upcoming matches were not advertising. They were Public Service Announcements.
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False. The betting agency is not called FunLoss. Its name is Sportsbet.
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False. Television is not new. It was developed during the 1920s and one of its greatest writers was Charles Dickens, who would have been 200 last week.
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True. ‘Live coverage’ means actual coverage of anevent which was genuinely happening when it was recorded.
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True. When he played Novak Djokovic, LleytonHewitt had one leg, one hand, a hip injury, calf and groin injuries, three broken arms and a bullet wound to the thigh. The match was held under lights at Tobruk.
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True. The final between Djokovic and Nadal was the greatest event in world history.
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False. The male players did not grunt. The grunt-like sounds they emitted while hitting the ball were simply manly expostulations made for your viewing pleasure.
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False. It was not a Gingrich who stole Christmas. It was a Grinch.
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False. The athlete who recently withdrew from a pole vault event was Steve Hooker. Joe Hockey is tapering nicely for London.
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The picture shows batsman David Warner switch-hitting. Peter Slipper is the Speaker in the federal parliament.
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True. Charges against Lance Armstrong have been found to contain traces of an illegal substance and have been withdrawn.
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False. Anna Bligh does not smoke a cigar, make a V sign or threaten to fight anyone on beaches. She does, however, go very well in a crisis.
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False. Tony Abbott was never a rhythm guitarist in abelow-average British band. It’s just the suit and the way he walks.
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False. Kevin Rudd is not a climate change denier. Climate change is one of three things Kevin doesn’t deny. The other two are the time and the date.