We had a fantastic response to our last quiz and we thank everyone who entered. The winner was Violet Town, of Violet Town. For the record, the answers were as follows:
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True. Penny Wong agrees with the ALP’s policy position against Penny Wongs.
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True. John Howard was surprised that the African and Asian countries didn’t want him as Vice President of the International Cricket Council.
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False. The ABC is a non-commercial network. The man who is still in awe of the sea, the conductor of coloured bubbles and the woman who pretends to be a novelist are not commercials. A commercial has a purpose.
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False. It is not The Dill Solution. It is called The Dili Solution. It is essentially the Pacific Solution but with auto focus, image stabilization and a better zoom.
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False. The World Giant Slalom Title has never been held at Etihad Stadium. The event on July 23rd was a football match.
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The Tour de France. It is a cycling race over 3,600 kilometres through towns and cities which have in common that Justin Madden was not their Planning Minister.
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Ben Cousins. He described lying comatose for a day and a half in intensive care as a wake-up call.
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False. The 26 homeowners and 84 businesses to whom Premier John Brumby apologized for failing to mention that their properties will be bulldozed for a regional rail link were not in Toorak.
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Kevin Andrews. A petard is small bomb.
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For Sale. Rugby League. Re-stump, rewire and restore or demolish and redevelop as units. STCA. Entire sporting code. Must go. Suit handyman.
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False. Paying off part of a mortgage before full term is called principal reduction. Bill Shorten is a politician.
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Docklands. Now that it has been there for ten years, some thought is to be given to its appearance, design and utility. It has even been suggested the whole area be converted into a human community.
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta. All the others are from the NSW Right.
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The photo shows Tony Abbott, trouser icon and leader of the federal opposition. Isn’t he gorgeous?
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True. The Australian media made it abundantly clear that Kevin Rudd’s downfall was inevitable. For reasons of space, their very lucid explanations were held over until after the event.
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True. Victorians speak a form of English. Doggies Fly, Danii Ethan Drama, Fev Brownlow Shocker and Logie Tweets are all key phrases and should be committed to memory. European Economy, Environmental Crisis, Rational Discourse and History of Ideas mean nothing. Concentrate on the important stuff.
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Clean coal, friendly fire, arts funding and customer services. The unicorn might turn up.
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False. Melbourne rail commuters emerging from a tunnel on foot does not mean the transport system doesn’t work. It means we lead the world in tunnel walking.
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False. The purpose of the AFL is not to give young people access to drugs in a supervised environment. It is to govern and manage the popular sport of Australian football.
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‘Midsomer Murders’. It is a British TV series. Inspector Tom Barnaby arrives in a village to investigate the apparent suicide of a man who is found hanging from a windmill during a Michaelmas celebration. While Tom is investigating what he suspects is actually a murder, nine other murders are committed and a barn catches fire. Eventually even Tom works out that the only person left in the village is the murderer. His assistant, who is even stupider, is amazed.