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ending 31 December 2023
Answers to this week's questions on colours:
1 (b) (Sydney Morning Herald)
2 Brown (2011-12 Australian white pages directories)
3 When defining absence of colour
4 They're all greens. (David Astle)
5 (b) The Eiffel Tower is bronze.
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ending 24 December 2023
Answers to this week's questions on Australian education:
1 (c) James Ruse had topped the NSW Higher School Certificate exams for the previous 27 years.
2 (a) St Paul's College resident students wear full academic dress to dinner every night Monday to Thursday.
3 Victoria - The Education State
4 (b)
5 The word 'The' at the start of their name. They are officially 'The Armidale School' etc.
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ending 17 December 2023
Answers to this week's questions on nominative determinism.
1 Nominative determinism is the theory that a person's name can have a significant role in determining key aspects of job, profession or even character.
2 Larry Writer writes. He is an Australian author. Since 1992 he has been a writer, editor, London bureau chief and executive editor with Time Inc. He authored books including Never Before, Never Again and the history of St George Leagues Club.
3 Because it was headed by Andrew Crook.
4 (c) Mr Stockham's first name is Wiley
5 (a) Emma Whale is head of Hawkesbury Nepean Valley Flood Risk Management Directorate.
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ending 10 December 2023
Answers to this week's questions on crime figures:
1 (c) Reports of up to 97
2 (c) 10,000
3 (b). He received 150 hours community service and was excused from paying compensation to the Commonwealth Bank and Greenline Investor Services.
4 (b) Two packets of lollies
5 (c) By accessing the hold from the plane's toilet, which just required removing panels.
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ending 3 December 2023
Answers to this week's questions on overseas names:
1 (c) Joe Biden's middle name is Robinette.
2 Zsa Zsa Gabor
3 Jain
4 (b)
(5) Jesus of Nazareth, Timon of Athens, Song of Solomon, The Knights of the Round Table, Anne of Green Gables, The Wizard of Oz, Dixon of Dock Green and Joan of Arc (Sydney Morning Herald)
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ending 26 November 2023
Answers to this week's questions on health:
1 (c) Kim Jong Un weighs about 140kg.
2 None of those. It's about 100,000km.
3 (a) When the door of a parked car is opened and a cyclist crashes into it, that's dooring.
4 (a) or (b) In some soaps and aftershaves. It's a fragrance.
5 (a) 13
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ending 19 November 2023
Answers to this week's questions on geography:
1 The Antarctica Desert is the world's largest, as 'desert' is defined as an area without trees or rain.
2 (b) and (c). Congratulations for knowing that it's not (a).
3 They are named after Queen Victoria (Adrian Ross, Place-Names of the World)
4 (b), a district of French Polynesia
5 Yes. You travel north or east from Detroit to Canada.
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ending 12 November 2023
Answers to this week's questions on English nouns:
1 A nook is a secluded corner or area.
2 You were right. What is a cranny? A cranny is a crevice.
3 Flotsam is wreckage found floating and jetsam is goods tossed overboard or washed ashore.
4 It was only about half a second. The dot on the letter "i" is a tittle.
5 They all started out as trade names. (Mensa Family Quiz book)
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ending 5 November 2023
Answers to this week's questions on David Astle cryptic crossword clues:
1 Daintree (DA in tree)
2 Domain ( = do mother in)
3 Obama (BA and MA below O)
4 Singleton (singlet on)
5 Often (of ten times)
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ending 22 October 2023
Answers to this week's questions on basic logic:
1 There are three ducks.
2 Systematic. Each letter is represented by the previous letter in the alphabet.
3 $5
4 Irrespective of whether it's legal, it's impossible. He's dead.
5 Mt Everest. It just hadn't been discovered then.
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ending 15 October 2023
Answers to this week's questions on Christian sects:
1 (a) Silence is the main feature of worship hour in the Religious Society of Friends.
2 Universal Life Church ordains anyone who requests it by email.
3 (a) and (c) Universal Life Church has over 20 million ministers
4 (b) Universal Life Church will elevate you to a status of your choice on application and payment of a fee.
5 (a) 16 attended.
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ending 8 October 2023
Answers to this week's questions on English:
1 They are all palindromes.
2 There is no difference. Similarly with "enquiry" and "inquiry".
3 Yes. The Oxford Dictionary defines "land" as "come down to ground or surface of water."
4 "Cumber" means the same as "encumber".
5 A palindrome is a word, phrase, sentence or number that reads the same backwards or forwards.
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ending 1 October 2023
Answers to this week's questions on backwards cryptic crossword clues:
1 Root
2 Backslap
3 Peep
4 Edit
5 Golf
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ending 24 September 2023
Answers to this week's questions on presidents:
1 Francois Hollande was president of France.
2 (a) (BBC November 2012)
3 China's President Xi
4 China's President Xi
5 China's President Xi
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ending 17 September 2023
Answers to this week's questions on food:
1 The ends of spoon handles face down and forks up.
2 Eat it before it goes stale. It is originally German wholemeal bread.
3 Eat
4 They are all synonyms for head. (Sydney Morning Herald 11-8-09)
5 Cackleberry is a slang term for an egg.
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ending 10 September 2023
Answers to this week's questions on English words:
1 Partly open
2 Incorrectly
3 You know. She also used many 'ums'. A sample sentence, after being asked if President George W Bush's tax cuts on the wealthy should be repealed immediately, was: 'Well, you know, that's something, obviously, that, you know, in principle and in the campaign, you know, I think that, um, the tax cuts, you know, were expiring and needed to be repealed.' (New York Post, New York Daily News and BBC News). In a 45-minute Four Corners interview on 16-10-17 Hilary Clinton paled by comparison with only 80 you knows and 14I I means. Still, only two likes. Aled Jones achieved 58 likes in 24 minutes on Compass on 3-11-18. An adopted Indian child managed 135 fillers, mainly 'you know' and 'sort of', in 25 minutes on ABC-TV 2 on 23-06-19.
4 (b) Whatever (Marist College Institute for Public Opinion)
5 (a), (b) and (c). It is the longest word used in normal speech that has alternating consonants and vowels.
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ending 3 September 2023
Answers to this week's questions on pronunciation:
1 Wednesday
2 The middle part is ignored when we pronounce it: Wensday, Febry and libry.
3 Its pronunciation changes when capitalised.
4 Your choice. If you remove the S you get 'cent' and if you remove the C you get 'sent'. The pronunciation is not affected.
5 (a) Consonants. The word is schwa.
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ending 27 August 2023
Answers to this week's questions on rivers:
1 (a) Mayborough is on the Mary River.
2 Yes, three times, and all within 2km.
3 Yes, through all of them.
4 The Brisbane River
5 Yangtze
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ending 20 August 2023
Answers to this week's questions on clothing:
1 A neckerchief
2 It becomes a kerchief.
3 Most chefs' jackets don't have pockets.
4 (b) The top buttonhole on your shirt is probably horizontal while the others are vertical.
5 (a) Each player wore two different-coloured sweat-bands, instead of the normal same colour on each arm.
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ending 13 August 2023
Answers to this week's questions on AFL players' names:
1 Aliir Aliir
2 Aliir
3 (b) Whiskas
4 For a deal with cat food company Whiskas
5 (a) A week later
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ending 6 August 2023
Answers to this week's questions on oceans:
1 The Black Sea is bordered by Russia, Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria; the Red Sea by Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt; the White Sea is in Russia and the Yellow Sea in China and Korea. You're forgiven for not knowing all that.
2 Yes. It is larger than all of the world's land area combined.
3 The Tasman Sea is part of the Pacific Ocean.
4 Seven. The ninth collapsed on 3-7-05 and the eighth on 25-9-09.
5 (b) There were 9 originally.
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ending 30 July 2023
Answers to this week's questions on road transport:
1 There are no roads between towns in Greenland.
2 California and Texas. It was originally called The California Texas Oil Company.
3 (c) Port Moresby didn't have bus timetables until 2017
4 (a). Hereward is claimed to be the world's shortest highway.
5 (a) The Netherlands prime minister, Mark Rutte, used a bicycle to get to work.
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ending 23 July 2023
Answers to this week's questions on drink:
1 Moraji Desai drank his urine each morning.
2 The eight juices in Campbell's V8 vegetable juice are tomato, carrot, celery, beet, parsley, lettuce, watercress and spinach
3 No. The salt would dry up our insides. Water originally in the body would be used to assist the process of dissolving the salt. (Sydney Morning Herald)
4 Water is Australia's most consumed drink.
5 Tomato juice, at 100%. The tomato is a fruit.
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ending 16 July 2023
Answers to this week's questions on Wimbledon tennis:
1 (b) As a former Australian Davis Cup coach Tony Roche was a supporter of Hewitt and he was current coach of Federer.
2 (b) It's Sir Andy Murray.
3 After every hit Natalija Stevanović screams and after every point she fixes her hair.
4 Fred Stolle lost his three consecutive Wimbledon men's singles finals from 1963 to 1965.
5 (b) She lost the match after starting with four aces.
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ending 9 July 2023
Answers to this week's questions on postcodes:
1 When giving their address the Post Office got their own postcode wrong. (Return of Heroic Failures)
2 The postcode for Success is 6164
3 Victoria's Launching Place is 3139
4 (c) Number One is a small rural area in New South Wales. Its postcode is 2424.
5 Yes 2899
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ending 2 July 2023
Answers to this week's questions on adjectives:
1 (a) It means "something to do with a long word".
2 Permutation, which means "a rearrangement of the contents".
3 Nothing, according to Collins Dictionary, which uses both terms in describing the meaning of "quintessential".
4 Transpose the third and fourth letters to get 'untied'.
5 (c) "Fulsome" means " disgusting".
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ending 25 June 2023
Answers to this week's questions on overseas politicians:
1 (c) The mayor of Guffey, Colorado, was a dog. (Sydney Morning Herald 26-7-97)
2 (b) Colin Powell pronounced his name Coelin, as in "toe".
3 They both died, within hours of each other. (World News and Prophecy June 2002)
4 He was blind.
5 Chancellor of the Exchequer
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ending 18 June 2023
Answers to this week's questions on cryptic crossword clues::
1 A Flat Major
2 after all
3 iron
4 delaying
5 undies
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ending 11 June 2023
Answers to this week's questions on war:
1 (c) The first seven pages of the Herald were all items about Ben Roberts-Smith and the next four were Harvey Norman advertisements.
2 Kabul is the Afghan capital.
3 (a), The Hundred Years War lasted 116 years from 1337 to 1453; the Thirty Years War from 1618 to 1648
4 (a) The other side was loyal to the other prime minister. In an effort to settle an earlier dispute, the United Nations had arranged for there to be two Cambodia prime ministers, jointly running the country.
5 (a) The American Civil War cost 600,000 lives.
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ending 4 June 2023
Answers to this week's questions on foreign language spelling:
1 No countries' names begin with "qu".
2 (c) There are 225 spellings for Leeuwarden.
3 A breve
1 (a) Cwm is the Welsh word for 'valley' and it appears in our Oxford dictionary.
2 (a) and (b). The official Hawaiian alphabet consists of 13 letters: five normal vowels Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo, Uu, five Vowels with macrons Āā, Ēē, Īī, Ōō, Ūū: and eight consonants Hh, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Pp, Ww, 'okina.
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ending 28 May 2023
Answers to this week's questions on personal names:
1. It includes his nationality, Afghan.
2. (a) Ed Currie
3. (c) God
4. (b) The king of Thailand. He was unofficially king from October 2016 and officially from 4 May 2019.
5 (a) The parents of a family held at Christmas Island while awaiting a court decision on their arrival by boat from Sri Lanka
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ending 21 May 2023
Answers to this week's questions on sport:
1 There are not many. The main one is mixed doubles matches in tennis; others include rogaining.
2 There are two Australian Kevin Bartletts who starred in sport—one in car racing, the other in Australian Rules football. (Sunday Telegraph 26-9-04)
3 Australia's fastest ever disabled skier. He had only one leg, but was the fastest abled or disabled skier.
4 The pressure on each arm is equal. (Lyle Brown's Sports Quiz)
5 No. An archer's aiming point might be several metres in front of and below the target. Trajectory must be accounted for as well as wind. (Lyle Brown's Sports Quiz)
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ending 14 May 2023
Answers to this week's questions on plants:
1 Trees have the greatest life expectancy. Some sequoias are thousands of years old.
2 Pitcher plants are carnivorous, trapping insects.
3 (b) Moth larvae scribble on scribbly gum trees.
4 No-one invented the Venus flytrap. It's a carnivorous plant that traps insects.
5 It catches insects and spiders when they trigger two hairs in 20 seconds. This is to avoid wasting energy for no nutritional value.
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ending 7 May 2023
Answers to this week's questions on names:
1 (a) A hyphen, eg Jean-Louis (Sydney Morning Herald 4-1-07)
2 Both. He was Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah.
3 (a), (b) and (c) Her name was Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu.
4 (c)
5 (a) 2.
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ending 30 April 2023
Answers to this week's questions on science:
1 One-ninth of an iceberg shows above water.
2 From your ear, not the shell itself. It is the echo of blood pulsing in the ear. (Absolute Trivia)
3 (a), (b) and (c). In the near-vacuum of space, water at any temperature boils because there isn't enough pressure to keep it liquid. (National Geographic May 2004)
4 In almost all cases, no. If all other factors are nullified, the Coriolis force—produced by the Earth's spin—makes water spiral counterclockwise north of the equator and clockwise south. But this force is extremely weak on small systems like a handbasin. The direction from which water enters, the shape of the basin, or any external movement usually outweighs the Coriolis force in determining the direction water drains. (National Geographic March 2001)
5 The chicken. A team from Warwick and Sheffield universities in Britain examined the formation of a chicken's egg in microscopic detail and discovered that the shell was made from a protein found only in chicken's ovaries. (Sydney Morning Herald 1-7-10)
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ending 23 April 2023
Answers to this week's questions on suburbs:
1 Garden Suburb is a Newcastle suburb.
2 Fiddletown is a Sydney suburb, between Glenorie and Arcadia.
3 The name of the lookout is The Lookout.
4 No Sydney suburb names contain an apostrophe. Some used to, such as Crow's Nest and Hunter's Hill.
5 One suburb name contains one hyphen and two contain two hyphens. There is one in Mount Kuring-gai and, incredibly, two in Ku-ring-gai Chase and Brighton-Le-Sands. In an oral exam where people were asked to record the correct spelling of those three suburbs, what percentage would get all the capital/lower case initial letters and all the hyphens correct?
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ending 16 April 2023
Answers to this week's questions on two drug personalities:
1 (c) Hitler had over 70 different medications. (Hitler's Secret Drug Habit, SBS)
2 (b) 275 police were needed for Schapelle Corby's transfer.
3 (a) and (b) 7 and 9 cancelled normal programming from 7pm to 8pm and dropped all advertising.
4 She changed her booking to another airline leaving a few minutes earlier.
5 (a) and (b). No TV, radio or press representatives were able to locate her.
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ending 9 April 2023
Answers to this week's questions on cartoon history:
1 One person — Mel Blanc — did the voices for 110 Warner Brothers' cartoons.
2 Bugs Bunny was the Washington Post's selection for the greatest actor of the last thousand years. (Telegraph 2-1-96)
3 Yen Sid is Disney spelt backwards.
4 Tweety birds only exist in Warner Bros cartoons.
5 Anything and everything, including Acme kit, anvil, aspirin, atom re-arranger, axle grease (guaranteed slippery), Batman's outfit, bed spring, bingo cannon, bird seed, blasting powder, bomb+balloon+basket kit, boomerang, breakfast cereal, carrot juice, catalogue, cheese, Christmas package machine, costume, cube sugar, dehydrated boulders, deluxe hi-bounce trampoline kit, detonator, disintegrating pistol, integrating pistol, do-it-yourself remote control missile bomb kit, do-it yourself tornado kit, dog sled, dynamite, earthquake pill, electric eye, electric motor, elephant bullets – explosive heads, explosive tennis ball, eye-test chart, female road-runner costume, frisbee disc, giant fly paper, giant kite kit, giant mouse trap, giant rubber band for tripping roadrunners, glass cutter, glue, grease, handle bar, hen grenades, hi-speed tonic, hitch-hiker thumb, indestructo steel ball, instant awakener, instant feathers, instant girl, instant icicle maker, instant road, invisible paint, iron bird seed, iron carrot, iron pellet, jet motor, jet-propelled pogo stick, jet-propelled skis, jet-propelled unicycle, jim-dandy wagon, junior explosive kit, junior size outboard steamrollers, lightning bolt (fat free) gloves included, hi-speed tonic, instant awakener, instant road, lightning bolts (fat free), lightning rod, little giant do-it-yourself rocket sled kit, little giant-giant fire cracker, little giant snow-cloud seeder, magnetic gun, mail-order catalogue, matches, monster clippers, mouse snare, 92-lb dogs, nitrogen glycerin, number 4 paper clips, out-board motor, pest control, practice bomb, railroad track, remote-control missile bomb kit, road runner lasso, rocket launcher, rocket-powered rocking horse, rocket-powered roller-skates, roller skis (no snow needed), safe, salvage steel and pipe, snow machine, speed skates, sproing boots, steel shot, steel trap kit, stix-all glue, stove lid, stove lid opener, straitjacket-ejecting basooka, street cleaner's wagon, suction caps, super bomb, super outfit, super rabbit tranquilising carrots, super speed vitamins, thresher, time-space gun, tornado kit, tranquiliser carrot, trick balls explode on contact, trick bone, triple strength battle-ship steel armour plates, triple-strength fortified leg-muscle vitamins, ultimatum dispatcher, ultimatum answerer, washtub, water pistol, weather balloon (self-inflating type), whipped cream dispenser and x-ray. It also supplies war surplus and wild cats, builds bridges, and operates air drop, building and wrecking company, building disintegrator [from 2056], bumble bees, bus, cement company, cleaners and dyers, construction company, costume company for trick or treat costumes, destruction company, garment company, importers, moving company, paving company, pet shop, poulty company, rare animal importing company, recycling, school of mouse catching, shopping centre, theatrical agency, theatrical hat company, tool company, tours, trains, transit buses, travel service, vans and warehouse.
Congratulations if you got all that answer correct.
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ending 2 April 2023
Answers to this week's questions on premiers:
1 Kristina Kerscher Keneally
2 (c): Nine former NSW premiers were alive in April 2011: Tom Lewis (74-76), Neville Wran (76-86), Barie Unsworth (86-88), Nick Greiner (88-92), John Fahey (92-95), Bob Carr (95-05), Maurice Iemma (05-08), Nathan Rees (08-09), Kristina Keneally (09-11). The only gap was January to May 1976 for Sir Eric Willis. Barry O'Farrell made 10 living premiers and nine consecutive.
3 Both
4 He hadn't been a member at all.
5 Bob Carr had never held a driver's license.
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ending 26 March 2023
Answers to this week's questions on non-British royalty:
1 The first and last Albanian ruler had everything in common. They were the same person, King Zog.
2 (b) Denmark's Queen Margrethe was a chain smoker.
3 South Africa has eight kings. One of them, King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, was in jail in 2016.
4 (a) Prem Tinsulanorida was 96 when he took over as Thailand's head.
5 (c) There are about 15,000 members of the Saudi royal family.
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ending 19 March 2023
Answers to this week's questions on Science:
1 (d) The pull of gravity sets the toast spinning as the first half goes over the table edge. There is not enough time for it to spin more than once, so it always lands buttered side down. The same works with paperback books, which are less messy for demonstration purposes.
2 (1) Tie a long piece of string to the barometer and lower it from the roof. (2) Drop it from the roof and time the interval until it smashes on the footpath. Calculate the height using physics formulae. (3) Find the architect of the building and say: "If you tell me the height of your building I'll give you a nice barometer."
3 (a)
4 The one that was dropped first. Weight doesn't affect time taken to land.
5 Its tip must exceed the speed of sound.
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ending 12 March 2023
Answers to this week's questions on Australian roads:
1 Speed is its name.
2 By the distance from the traffic lights at the main intersection. So house number 412 is 4.12km from that intersection.
3 All the houses lining New Street have their main frontage on another street.
4 They are different names for the same road.
5 Eulbertie Avenue comes to a T-intersection. The cross-road here bears the same name in both directions.
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ending 5 March 2023
Answers to this week's questions on clothing:
1 Nike is the Greek goddess of victory.
2 The clothing name with four of its six letters U is muu-muu.
3 (a) and (b) Queen Elizabeth's clothing for Dublin Castle had paper shamrocks and was her third outfit for the day.
4 A muu-muu is a colourful Pacific Islands dress.
5 (b) Wati Homwood was wearing shoes. Otherwise nothing, as he was a streaker.
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ending 26 February 2023
Answers to this week's questions on education:
1 (a) The government decided to sell part of Hurlstone Agricultural High School land to pay for an inquiry into the sale of the land
2 Carmel Tebbutts was Minister for Education.
3 The Kings School has 19 playing fields..
4 (c) In 2010 Lane Cove Wets primary school had15 sets of twins plus one set of triplets.
5 The Church of England in Australia changed the denomination's name to Anglican Church of Australia in 1981 but Shore school has retained its official name as Sydney Church of England Grammar School.
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ending 19 February 2023
Answers to this week's questions on music:
1 (a) Abide With Me has been sung at every FA Cup final from 1928 except one.
2 Erik Satie's composition lasted for just under a minute but his score says it is to be played 840 times in succession – a non-stop playing time of 14 hours. (Reader's Digest Book of Facts)
3 The vuvuzela could claim to be the world's most annoying musical instrument.
4 It only plays one note.
5 There are seven different notes in an octave – do, re, me, fa, so la, ti, then do repeated. Or: the interval between the first and last notes is an octave. For example, the C Major scale is typically written C D E F G A B C, the initial and final Cs being an octave apart.
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ending 12 February 2023
Answers to this week's questions on mathematics:
1 (c), 80,660 followed by 63 zeros.
2 (c), and even then he got the last 100 digits wrong.
3 Although having to win two out of four games sounds like having to win half, or 50-50, the chances are really 60%. Ignoring other factors such as ability, the possibilities for Fred are that he will win none, one, two, three or all four of the last four games. Three of those five possibilities give him the title, and three out of five is a 60% chance. Conversely, Mabel has 40% so no-one else gets a look in.
4 (b) The value of pi (the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter) to one million decimal places (Book of Lists). Japanese mathematicians Kanada and Takashashi have since used a Hitachi SR8000 to calculate it to 206,158,430,000 places. (The Uncyclopedia, which published the first 600 on p83)
5 You are doing pretty well if you answered this question, as the highest perfect number has 12 003 digits. (Readers' Digest Book of Facts)
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ending 5 February 2023
Answers to this week's questions on income:
1 (b) Disney president Michael received $164 million severance pay.
2 (a) Bill Gates earned $79 million per day in 1997 (Telegraph 29-9-97)
3 (c) Ella Wendle's poodle Toby was the beneficiary of her $30 million.
4 The chimpanzee was first.
5 (a) Kerry Packer lost $6.6 million in one night. (Telegraph 5-9-97)
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ending 29 January 2023
Answers to this week's questions on the Australian Open tennis:
1 Major world championships are called 'Opens' because they are now 'open' to professionals instead of the old events that were closed to professionals.
2 (b), South African Trevor Fancutt was the one non-Australian in the 1960 Australian men's singles, but he lived in Australia. Overseas players then thought it was too far to come. (Rod Laver, The Golden Era)
3 Kokkinakis boasts four Ks.
4 Soonwoo Kwon or Kwon Soonwoo.
5 The Andy Murray match lasted five hours.
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ending 22 January 2023
Answers to this week's questions on water sports
1 (d) The Cambridge boat sank on the way to the start of the 1984 race.
2 Wild Oats XI won line honours in nine Sydney to Hobart yacht races.
3 SCUBA is a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.
4 The oldest world surfing championship winner is Kelly Slater, at 39.
5 The youngest world surfing championships winner is Kelly Slater, at 20.
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ending 15 January 2023
Answers to this week's questions on finance:
1 (c) Zimbabwe issued a $100 trillion note in 2009 equal in value to 48 US cents.
2 (c) One hundred trillion has 14 zeros..
3 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were America's two largest finance companies looking for a government rescue package.
4 (b)
5 (b)
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ending 8 January 2023
Answers to this week's questions on Australian murderers:
1 (b) Martin Bryant murdered.35.
2 (c) He weighed 160kg in 2015.
3 (c) He will be eligible for parole in 3031. (Sydney Morning Herald 8-6-10)
4 (c) Ivan Milat had 13 siblings.
5 From oldest to youngest of Milan and his siblings: 1. Her husband shot himself dead. 2. 2's son died of pneumonia at 20; divorced. 3. Ivan fathered 3's wife's second daughter; robbery as a teenager. 4. No problems. 5. Ivan. 6. Divorced, possess unlicensed pistol. 7. Jailed for car theft. 8. Jailed for car theft at 18 and at 23 jailed for seven years for armed robbery and wounding, died of a heart attack at 51. 9. 9's sister killed in car accident when he was driving, divorced. 10. Was married but now lives alone. 11 Died age 16 when brother (9) driving. 12. Charged with theft and malicious damage, assaulted girlfriend breaking teeth and ribs. 13. Tried to extort $500,000 from Qantas in telephone hoax, two serious road accidents of which the second caused brain damage. 14. Divorced. (Sun-Herald 28-11-10)
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ending 1 January 2023
Answers to this week's questions on sport:
1 The John Isner/Nicola Mahut tennis match, 70-68 in the fifth set, didn't just break so many records but smashed them.
2 (a) The golden fig leaf is the trophy in hide and seek.
3 Backstroke swimming, pole vault, rowing and tug-o-war are some of the backwards sports..
1 11: consecutive premierships by St George in rugby league.
16: British Open squash championships by Heather McKay.
33: Consecutive horse racing wins by Winx.
42: Herb Elliott was undefeated in his 42 middle-distance (1500 metres or mile) races from 1957 to 1961.
99.94: Don Bradman's cricket runs average.
132: Australia's ending of the US domination for 132 years in the America's Cup.
5 (c) He was a detention centre inmate. (Newcastle Herald 16-07-1991)
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