We had a fantastic response to our last quiz and we thank everyone who entered. The winner was Sandy Point, of Sandy Point. Excellent work Sandy. For the record, the answers were as follows:
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True. Hugh Hefner’s sex life is a key narrative in high-end Australian media.
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False. James Murdoch is not available for functions.
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False. Bernie Ecclestone doesn’t own the Victorian government. He doesn’t need to.
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True. The federal government has some work to do in the mountains. There is no time-trial stage in the carbon debate.
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True. Despite their differences on economic policy, social policy, international policy and the future of the planet, Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott are at one on the big threat facing Australia. They’re both boldly opposed to gay marriage.
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The photos show Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson. Wayne Swan doesn’t wear a poncho or a hat pulled down over his eyes. Nor does he sort things out quite so effectively.
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False. Andy Coulson has not been cleared to play for the Brisbane Lions.
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True. The world still somehow has news despite the fact that The News of The World is no longer published.
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True. Cadel Evans has announced he will defend his Tour de France title although this does not constitute recycling within the meaning of the legislation.
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Christine Nixon. Her assertion that the media hounded her out of office because she is a woman is understandably offensive to the media, since they hounded her successor Simon Overland out of office too and he is a man.
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James Magnussen. He is called The Missile because he follows The Thorpedo and swimming commentators are not yet tested for steroids.
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The Head of FIFA has been returned to office in a genuinely democratic, completely open and independently supervised ballot due to be held next April.
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The US economy. Either it is the most successful in the world or it is 4 trillion in debt. You were asked to tick only one box. It is no use trying to borrow more boxes. There aren’t any more boxes.
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False. 37.11.233 is not a secret code or a mysterious theorum. It is a nice afternoon out in the Geelong area.
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False. The habit developed in the media of labelling a story Something-gate in order to indicate its level of intrigue and importance (‘Carbongate’, for example) is not known as Drivelgate.
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Incorrect. Robert Doyle is not the coach of Melbourne. He is the Lord Mayor.
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The Australian dollar. For the next four nights it can be seen, with a powerful telescope, high in the eastern sky, between Sirius and Uranus.
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False, the Big Bash League has nothing to do with football. It is a cricket competition and promises to be most exciting. Anyone who’d like a game, call Andrew Hilditch by Thursday.
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Dean Bailey. Mike Rann was removed by covert activity within his own leadership group.
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Wivenhoe Dam. It is built above the residential areas it is designed to supply with gravity-fed water services. This works well so long as it doesn’t fill with water.