We had a fantastic response to our last quiz and we thank everyone who entered. The winner was Cam Perdown of Camperdown. For the record, the answers were as follows:
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The building, an astonishing feat of engineering, is in Dubai. At 2,727 feet, it is the most bankrupt building in the world.
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False. While it is true that boatloads of asylum seekers cause a song and dance from the Australian Government; and while it is also true that Japanese whaling ships ramming other craft and splitting them in half cause no significant response from the Australian government; it is not valid to conclude that asylum seekers should kill whales and ram other vessels in order to gain approval from the Australian government.
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Also false. The baggy green is a cap awarded for cricketing prowess. Bob Brown is a senator.
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Tony Abbott. He has reversed his previous position and put the smugglers in mothballs. Sadly for his obsession with privacy, photographers have now worked out where he secretly rides his bike before dawn in yellow lycra past their cameras.
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Joel Fitzgibbon. No-one knows. Perhaps he’s glued in.
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True. It is illegal to ride on a tram without paying an amount you don’t understand into a machine that can’t explain, in order to travel on the wrong route to somewhere you don’t want to go.
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It was b)The media coverage of Prince William’s visit. David Cassidy wasn’t in Australia at the time and ‘Bambi’ is a movie about a fawn.
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False. The coal lobby is not a carboniferous reception area. It is the government’s peak advisory body on global warming.
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False. The US Administration has tightened its intelligence procedures and is no longer recruiting counter-tenors. It is now looking for experts in counter-terrorism.
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False. Re-gifting refers to the practice, often undertaken over the period following Christmas, of passing on gifts previously received. The Australian Taxation Office is a different enterprise altogether. It receives money from taxpayers and gives it to business.
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John Alexander. All the others are tennis commentators.
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Channel 7. The highlight of this year’s Australian Open Tennis was the superb men’s quarter-final match between Home and Away.
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The photo shows a Collins Class submarine, a vital part of Australia’s defence capability. There are six of them and in order to retain the element of surprise, four of them work. The one pictured is patrolling the main street of Holbrook.
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John Howard. He has firmed as Australia’s nominee to the International Cricket Council. Australia’s nominee to the International Gymnastics Federation is Amanda Vanstone and its nominee to the International Convention on Crippling Personal Shyness is Gerry Harvey.
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Lyn Kosky was the Arts Minister. ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ is a stage show.
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Correct. The coalition accepts that sea levels have been rising for decades, initially by very small amounts and then by larger increments. These rises are measured scientifically and calibrated as follows: ‘Crap’, ‘A lot of crap’, ‘Complete crap’ and ‘Bullshit.’
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The Office of Police Integrity. It is run by unicorns using invisible nets to catch sea breezes, which they later release into the wild.
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Kevin Rudd’s boredom index was today lifted from Moderate to Extreme. If he gets on to art and literature, authorities are expected to raise the index to Code Red/Catastrophic, in which case residents should leave the area immediately.
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Bernard Tomic. Every other 17 year old throughout history has believed it is deeply unfair and a calculated personal insult to be told to go to bed before midnight.
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The photo shows the crowd enjoying the recent one day cricket fixture at the MCG. They were Dave Ingram and Ian Whittaker. Dave is a gas-fitter and Ian runs an IT business in Clayton. And sorry girls; both are taken.