We had a fantastic response to our recent quiz and we thank everyone who entered. The winner was Ash Burton, of Ashburton. Great work Ash. For the record, the answers were as follows:
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False. George Pell didn’t actually say ‘I’m only going to say this once. You know what you’re going to ask me and I know the answers I’m prepared to provide. If they bear some relation to each other that will be a bonus and an unexpected delight’.
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True. When Jeff Kennett was Premier of the state of Victoria, he drank 20 cups of coffee a day, secured a car race which loses $50m a year, forfeited control of public transport, gas, electricity and main roads. He’s calmed down a bit since but remains a first class mind.
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True. The headline ‘Great Scott!’ is used when anyone Scottish wins anything and when anyone named Scott wins anything. Andy Murray and Adam Scott have given it a fair workout in the past few months.
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False. Eddie McGuire is not a compulsory element in all material of any kind broadcast in Victoria. He’s not in The Weather, for example*.
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False. Bitcoin is an imaginary but tradable currency. The US$ is real and the British pound will be real again in 100 years if things go really well.
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The ANZAC Day march is a timely reminder that the German and Japanese menace was rolled back by the media, by people carrying photographs and by suburban brass bands.
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The correct answer was ‘ASADA stands for Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority’. The answer ‘Bloody near anything’ was not accepted.
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True. The purpose of the Steward’s Inquiry was to ascertain what was said to the brothel-owner about the prospects of the horse owned by the galah and trained by the bookie’s mother. The important consideration in all this was to safeguard the integrity of racing in NSW.
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False. A developer cannot get approval for a hideous project simply because he’s very tall. It is the hideous development that needs to be very tall, not the developer.
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False. The Australian attack will be led by Siddle, Pattinson and Starc. Dulcie Boling is a retired magazine editor.
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True. Due to a breakdown in negotiations, live odds on the likely outcome will not be broadcast during the anti-gambling debate.
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False. The music at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral was Bel Canto. There was no mention of the Belgrano at the funeral. Australia was represented by Lord Howard of Baghdad.
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False. Stocks do not go up on a Monday. It’s much more complicated than that.
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False. There is no plan to introduce hearing tests for Australian cricket administrators. This follows the failure of the eyesight test which was inconclusive since no-one could find the venue.
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False. The man singing ‘Ground control to Major Tom’ in a capsule was a Canadian astronaut. Wayne Swan is an Australian politician.
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The answer was c). A Palm Reader is a fortune-teller and a Palm Climber is a plant. Clive Palmer is a person.
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A bobcat is a compact loader and bulldozer. A person who uses one is called a bobcat driver. There is no such thing as a bobcatter.
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True. A palindrome is something which reads the same backwards as it does forward. Examples include the name Anna, the sentence ‘Able was I ere I saw Elba’ and Joe Hockey’s budget reply speech.
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True. The premier is referred to as Dr Napthine. This is done so the Victorian community understands that he is running a little bit behind schedule but will see them soon. Just take a seat and read some old golf magazines.
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True. The land speed record from St Kilda to Carlton on an evening when there’s a match at the MCG is held by Mark Weber, in a Red Bull Renault. He covered the distance in an hour and ten minutes.
*Although scattered eddies are forecast in some areas for tomorrow.