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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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