We had a fantastic response to our last quiz and we thank everyone who entered. The winner was Chelsea Heights of Chelsea Heights. For the record, the answers were as follows:
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True. The new myki public transport payment system, which will be introduced over the next thousand years, is named after its inventor, Mr Michael Mouse
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False. Mary McKillop has not been spotted in pre-season training at the Junction Oval.
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Telstra. Carthage was sacked, the Titanic sank and Dresden was reduced to rubble.
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Copenhagen. Mt Disappointment is up past Kinglake.
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Correct. ‘The rich nations’ include the UK, which is broke, and the US which owes $3 trillion.
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The Berlin Wall. It came down in 1989. Kevin Rudd was unable to attend celebrations but has put in an offer for the wall, conditional upon the completion of sea trials, a strong set of anchors and a suitable parking place north west of Ashmore Reef.
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Correct. The debate on Climate Change will take place at the Town Hall on Tuesday night, between Tony Abbott. He will argue for and against each proposition, making a distinction between his actual beliefs and his political posturing. He will also discuss the term ‘actual beliefs’. It starts at 8. He’ll get there around 9.
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False. Despite having fulfilled the qualifying requirements with flying colours, Tiger Woods currently has no plans to play in the NRL next season.
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False. John Brumby is the Premier of the state. James Packer just runs the casino.
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Nick Minchin. The character who stole Christmas was The Grinch.
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False. Mr Sheen was a cleaning product and hugely popular. He otherwise lived a relatively quiet life and was never arrested, charged or responsible for coke-fueled idiocy.
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False. If children don’t want to eat their greens, they should mount a convincing argument against vitamins. Simply repeating over and over again that lettuce is a massive great big fat huge new tax is just silly.
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Sophie Mirabella. She is the Shadow Minister for Being Opposed to Science.
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False. Salvador Dali did not ever produce a work featuring Phillip Ruddock criticising the Rudd government’s Immigration policy.
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The Heene family. They pretended their son had been swept off in a runaway balloon. He was actually hiding in the house. The Heenes were subsequently convicted on a charge of fooling the media who didn’t check anything and kept filming for four days.
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Tony Blair. He was the British Prime Minister who went into Iraq with George W Bush on the basis of intelligence information which was incorrect. He recently tried to become President of the European Union. He was not successful. The other photographs show a fruitcake and a bag of mixed nuts.
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Barnaby Joyce. He was encouraging the government to scrap its ETS legislation, shut its face and announce the date of the next federal election. The other footage was of Mt Vesuvius.
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Cardinal Pell. His Christmas massage was broadcast around the world live on the internet, in a tradition as old as time itself. The other photos are of Mae West and Isadora Duncan.
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St Paul. He was on the road to Damascus. Justin Madden was coming through Pakenham on his way back from Kilcunda.
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Kevin Rudd. He will speak on ‘Australia’s Moral Landscape’. Take something to read.