We had a fantastic response to our last quiz and we thank everyone who entered. The winner was Tim Boon Of Timboon. For the record, the answers were as follows:
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The Ashes. It is the most famous rivalry in cricket. A test series occurs every four years between the Australian side and a team made up of South Africans, Indians and a couple of English players with names like Badger, Roadworks and Turnip.
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True. Michael McGurk was a Sydney businessman whose name was not Michael McGurk, who was not from Sydney and was not a businessman.
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True. The inquiry looked at the impact on problem gamblers of an additional 150 gambling tables at the Casino. The Inquiry found that the extra tables could go ahead. The Inquiry looked at the matter very seriously indeed. The Inquiry begins on Monday.
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True. The Murray Darling River system, rising sea levels, coastal erosion, the loss of species and increasing oceanic and atmospheric temperatures will be fixed by a market trading in emissions. No worries.
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Elton John. Apparently he doesn’t meet the requirements set down by the Ukrainian authorities for turning up with a phalanx of western media and announcing he’d like to adopt the boy third from the left in the back row. No, not you; next to you. Yes, you.
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AFL Grand Final umpires. Anyone who’d like a run next year, ring Andrew. Must be able to tell the difference between a goal and a point.
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Ron Walker. His place on the Fairfax board will be opened up for development. Plans currently include a luxury boatel with gaming facilities and a car race through a celebrity lion park. STCA.
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The stock market. It’s completely different. There’s no track, no birdcage, the weather is not a huge factor and the brokers are not weighed afterwards.
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Lot 63. A handwritten document. In good condition. Signed at the bottom by Mrs Minchin. ‘Please excuse Nick from Science forever. He has a virus’.
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False. Bart Cummings has never won the Premiership Cup. He is also yet to win the Stawell Gift, the Archibald Prize or the Australian Open. (He has withdrawn from Dancing with the Stars citing some soreness in the off foreleg).
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Ruddabilitation. So far Robert Hill, Brendan Nelson and Peter Costello have entered the programme. All have struggled in pervious employment and with supervision and proper training it is hoped they might all make some sort of return to normal life.
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Kevin Rudd. So little to learn. So much time.
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Amanda Vanstone. For a full scale of our fees go to the website.
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Paint drying. The Brownlow Count is an intensely interesting top-flight television show in which the numbers 1, 2 and 3 are repeatedly read out to a room full of adults for seven hours.
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Alexander Downer. Bob the Builder was unavailable.
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Australian bank charges. The pole vault is an athletics event.
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True. The biggest spectator sport in Victoria is Rain. At the first few drops people rush to their windows and jockey for viewing positions, whooping, yelling encouragement and pointing out highlights. The score is updated live on-line and when it’s all over, kids are often allowed out on the ground to have a few kicks.
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Tiger Woods. He is being paid an appearance fee of over $3m. The Gulf Crisis is a different matter altogether.
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False. Julie Bishop did not appear in ‘The Stepford Wives’ and nor did Wayne Swan feature in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ although Wilson Tuckey did make a brief appearance in ‘Deliverance’ and Barnaby Joyce performed a lot of the stunt-work in ‘Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.’
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Paul Keating. He was expressing his opinion on Peter Costello’s appointment to the board of the Future Fund, when it went off. The fire brigade say the area is now safe.