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ending 8 December 2024
Answers to this week's questions on Australian personal names:
1 (c) Timofei Tszyu is an Australian professional boxer who held the World Boxing Organization (WBO junior-middleweight title from 2023 to 2024.
2 (c) His middle name is Konstantinovich
3 (b) Cherry Ripe (Crikey)
4 (a) Nick Sherry (Crikey)
5 (c) Trevor Peeler (Crikey)
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ending 1 December 2024
Answers to this week's questions on historic overseas TV programs:
1 (a) South African TV's "Sixty Minutes" lasted 15 minutes.
2 The final episode of MASH became the most popular.
3 (b) Two empty gin bottles (Book of Heroic Failures)
4 God was expected to star. The predicted broadcast was the first of a series of prophecies by Chen Hon-Ming, leader of a Taiwanese religious cult that moved to Garland, Texas, in 1997. (Telegraph 26-3-98)
5 Rin Tin Tin was a dog.
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ending 24 November 2024
Answers to this week's questions on broadcasters:
1 (c) 20 years
2 (c) 160. He lost the 14 November 2024 survey when he only had two surveys to go before retirement
3 John Laws
4 (c)
5 (c) 50 years to 2007 then a return from 2011
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ending 17 November 2024
1 Yes. It's in the whole four.
2 (c) 4270km and 177km
3 Luxembourg and Mexico
4 It's in the north of South America.
5 Fiji
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ending 3 November 2024
Answers to this week's questions on overseas town names:
1 The answer you first thought of was correct, although we can't print it here.
2 (a), (b) and (c).
3 Pity Me is a village in Durham, England
4 The only place worthy of mention in an atlas having a name beginning with ABC.
5 (a) Gstaad
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ending 27 October 2024
Answers to this week's questions on currencies
1 Yes. It's Boliviano.
2 US dollar
3 US dollar
4 US dollar
5 No. Ten thousand dong is worth about one Australian dollar. They have no other unit of currency; the lowest-value note (they have no coins) is for 500 dong.
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ending 20 October 2024
Answers to this week's questions on national anthems.
1 They are sung to the same tune.
2 It's the second verse of the British National Anthem.
3 The anthems of Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and San Marino have no words.
4 South Africa's national anthem is in five languages.
5 The five languages are Xhosa, Zulu, Sesotho, Afrikaans and English.
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ending 13 October 2024
Answers to this week's questions on demography:
1 (b) Demography is the statistical study of human populations.
2 (b) New York
3 (c) 1
4 (b) Yes, about 600,000 in Mauritania. (Sydney Morning Herald 13-7-09)
5 (b) 1.1
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ending 6 October 2024
Answers to this week's questions on foreign language:
1 The normal meaning for 'maori' is "normal".
2 (a) Ddaer is the Welsh word for "earth".
3 There is no word for "the" in classical Latin.
4 (c) There can be rare exceptions, but !00% is more accurate an answer for these languages than 99%.
5 (a) Esperanto
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ending 29 September 2024
Answers to this week's clever crossword clues:
1 Arise. (Get up = arise and IS is inside its plural ARE)
2 Keith (Some of the letters in liKE IT Hot give a boy's name.)
3 Soundly
4 Number (An anaesthetic makes you numb and No is a common abbreviation for number)
5 Unwell
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ending 15 September 2024
Answers to this week's questions on marriage:
1 (b) For marrying in November. (Sydney Morning Herald 13-12-11)
2 (d) The fine was two sheep.
3 He ended the relationship.
4 The same – polygamy
5 Younger – by 49 years. Berusconi was 76 and Francesca Pascale 27.
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ending 8 September 2024
Answers to this week's questions on cities:
1 "Jerusalem" means City of Peace.
2 Iceland (Reykjavik)
3 We're surprised you didn't know Los Angeles' full name. It's "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula" ("town of our lady the Queen of Angels of the River Porciúncula").
4 (c) Yerevan is the capital of Armenia.
5 Damascus, Syria, is the world's oldest continuously-occupied city.
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ending 1 September 2024
Answers to this week's questions on plants:
1 (c) Some bamboo can grow one metre in 24 hours. (Book of Facts)
2 (b) The pea is the most common for the title of oldest vegetable, but there are other contstants.
3 Underground. They spend their entire lives buried in the earth. (Reader's Digest Book of Facts)
4 While not necessarily looking like their parents, plants resemble their grandparents. (Reader's Digest Book of Facts)
5 The pebble plant is camouflaged to resemble rocks so that animals won't eat it.
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ending 25 August 2024
Answers to this week's questions on health:
1 No non-animal products contain cholesterol.
2 It is unacceptable to eat with your left hand in Central Africa because the left hand is used for wiping one's behind.
3 No, it's much higher up—the mouth.
4 He did, after six days of being pinned by a rock fall.
5 Go for fool. According to the Oxford Dictionary, a fool is one who thinks or acts unwisely and an idiot is permanently incapable of rational conduct.
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ending 18 August 2024
Answers to this week's questions on overseas personal names:
1 The full names of those known by their initials and surname are Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English novelist; Thomas Stearns Eliot, US poet; William Claude Fields, US actor; Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, US tyre manufacturer; David Herbert Lawrence, English writer: Orenthal James Simpson, US footballer; Herbert George Wells, English novelist
2 (a) Paul Ludwig Hans Anton Von Bececkendorf Und Von Hindenburg was the president of Germany before Hitler took over.
3 (c) Better than a trotter, she was an Olympian runner.
4 Four of the letters in Biden are in the middle of his middle name, Robinette.
5 The president of China is XI, which is eleven in Roman numerals.
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ending 11 August 2024
Answers to this week's questions on the Paris Olympic Games.
1 (c) Rafael Nadal has played 117 singles matches at Roland Garros.
2 (a) He has only lost five of them.
3 In race walking, one foot must be touching the ground at all times.
4 (c) Germany survived six Australian match points.
5 Cameron McEvoy had competed in three previous Olympics without any wins.
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ending 4 August 2024
Answers to this week's questions on the Paris Olympic Games:
1 The name of ABC Olympics reporter Amanda Shalala has 13 letters of which 6 (virtually half) are A.
2 (c) 1000 police were assigned for the Israel-Mali soccer match.
3 (c) 45,000 police were on duty for the opening ceremony.
4 (b) Channel 9 only had Olympic Games, news and rugby league during the first weekend.
5 Sarah Moany was referred to many times in radio and TV comments on the Opening Ceremony.
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ending 28 July 2024
Answers to this week's questions on the Olympic Games:
1 Winners of silver medals compare themselves with those who won gold, and feel that they've failed; bronze winners compare themselves with those who didn't win a medal.
2 The 2020 Olympics was held in 2021, although it was still called the 2020 Olympics.
3 (c) The Nazis started the torch relay.
4 No, not the marathon. It's the men's 50km walk.
5 He had no 50-metre swims. Equatorial Guinea only had a 20-metre option, and that was in a hotel.
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ending 21 July 2024
Answers to this week's questions on presidents:
1 (a) Deaths in April 1945 were US president Franklin D Roosevelt (12th), Italian prime minister Benito Mussolini (28th) and German chancellor Adolf Hitler (30th)
2 Franco's first name was Francosco.
3 Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
4 Indonesian President Suharto's full name was Jenderal Besar TNI Purn. Haji Muhammad Suharto. If you say got that answer completely correct, the chances that you cheated are high or you are brilliant. How did you know that it contains a full stop?
5 Yes
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ending 14 July 2024
Answers to this week's questions on churches:
1 (a) La Sagrada Familia Cathedral construction began in 1882.
2 (a) It is expected to be completed in 2026.
3 (a), (b) and (c) It uses cannabis as a sacrament, is tax-exempt and belief in God is optional.
4 (c) About 45,500 attend Joel Osteen's church.
5 (c) The people live on floating islands; so did their church. (Sydney Morning Herald 11-8-12)
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ending 7 July 2024
Answers to this week's questions on Wimbledon tennis:
1 (a) The 2019 Wimbledon ladies' doubles semi-finals surnames were sure different from Smith, Barty and Williams.
2 The winner came back after losing the first two sets to win the match.
3 (a) Taylor Dent, at 238km/h.
4 (a) None.
5 (c) The youngest, Roberto Bautista Agut, was 31. The others were 32 (Djokovic), 33 (Nadal) and 37 (Federer)
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ending 30 June 2024
Answers to this week's questions on Australian names.
1 (a) and (b) Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya is known for having 24 letters in her name. She's also the first Australian to win the world junior figure-skating title. (Sydney Morning Herald 25-03-17)
2 Because his first name was also Haydar - Haydar Haydar
3 No letter is missing.. Her surname is Qin.
4 They all had the surname Smith, including the cabin and flight crew.
5 Paul Ramsbottom-Isherwood was a contender for the longest Australian surname. His surname has six syllables and 19 letters. Paul's name was in The Sydney Morning Herald death notices on 30-10-18.
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ending 23 June 2024
Answers to this week's questions on Bible statistics:
1 The most-used word in the Bible is "and".
2 (a) The name Jehovah appears four times. We hope you didn't choose (b).
3 (b) Money is the most-discussed subject in the Bible, some 2,000 times.
4 Yes. He had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
5 Obadiah only has one chapter, of 21 verses. So does the New Testament book Philemon, but it has 25 verses
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ending 16 June 2024
Answers to this week's questions on Papua New Guinea:
1 Papua New Guinea's prime minister James Marape goes to church on Saturday. He's a Seventh-day Adventist.
2 (b) Their 2013 act provided for imprisonment for witchcraft.
3 (c) More than 2000 were believed to have been buried alive in a Papua New Guinea landslide on 24 May 2024.
4 Yes.
5 The Kokoda Trail or Track is 96 kilometres long. If it were straight, it would be 60 kilometres.
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ending 9 June 2024
Answers to this week's questions on Bob Rogers:
1 (a) Bob Rogers rated first among morning music show hosts in the September 2010 Sydney radio survey, when he was aged 83.
2 (c) He had been in radio for 74 years.
3 He retired on 10 November 2018 at 91.
4 (c) The average age of the two morning presenters on 2CH and 2SM I November 2018 was 87 years 7 months. Bob Rogers was 91 years 11 months and John Laws 83 years 3 months.
5 (c) From 1995 to 2000 the highest-rating radio program on either of the jointly-owned 2GB and 2CH wasn't Bob Rogers program. It was Rev Gordon Moyes' four-hour Sunday Night Live.
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ending 26 May 2024
Answers to this week's questions on golf holes-in-one:
1 He died.
2 (a) (Guinness World Records)
3 Also the 12th. After accepting congratulations for the first hole-in-one, his tee shot at the 13th sliced right, hit a tree and ended up back in the 12th hole. (Sydney Morning Herald 24-3-98)
4 (a) (Guinness World Records)
5 The tee shot landed in the hole on the full.
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ending 19 May 2024
Answers to this week's questions on English plurals:
1 The plural of moose is the same or, less commonly, meese. But not mice, as is sometimes jokingly used.
2 The plural of mongoose is mongooses
3 The singular of graffiti is graffito, but graffiti for the singular as well has become more common.
4 An agendum is the word for an agenda with only one item. "Agenda" is from the Latin meaning "things to do".
5 A trivium
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ending 12 May 2024
Answers to this week's questions on country names:
1 Kyrgyzstan's first eight letters are all consonants.
2 Kyrgyzstan is the longest country name with only one vowel.
3 Uruguay begins with U-U-U.
4 Only a few countries are named after people. Examples are Bolivia (Simon Bolivar), Colombia (Christopher Columbus), Liechtenstein (Johann von Liechtenstein), Nicaragua (Chief Nicarao), Philippines (King Philip), Saudi Arabia (King Saud) and United States of America (Amerigo Vespucci). (jayp.net)
5 (a). Canada means "big village".
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ending 5 May 2024
Answers to this week's anagrams questions:
1 ancestors
2 netherworld
3 riddle
4 antithesis (DA)
5 astronomer
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ending 28 April 2024
Answers to this week's questions on prime ministers:
1 Yes, Bill English.
2 Zoran Zeav was prime minister of Macedonia.
3 (b) 24 January was also the date of his father's death.
4 (a) Blenheim Palace, Oxford
5 Kevin Rudd's wife's name is Thérèse Rein.
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ending 21 April 2024
Answers to this week's questions on alcohol:
1 (c) Five different drivers (Telegraph)
2 (b) Left-over communion wine (Telegraph)
3 (a) The court found it was "not in the public interest" to pursue the charge against the great-grandfather who was doing less than 5kmh in his battery-powered wheelchair. (Telegraph)
4 (c) Camels (Herald)
5 Ale, rum and scotch
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ending 14 April 2024
Answers to this week's questions on mathematics definitions:
1 The nine words beginning with "n" that mean zero are naught, nihil, nil, nix, none, no (eg no points), nothing, nought, null (also nada, from Spanish)
2 Other words meaning zero are aught, bugger-all, duck, f—k-all, love (as in tennis), O (pronounced oh), ought, sweet Fanny Adams, zip, zippo, zilch
3 Surprisingly, the smallest number that contains an "a" is thousand.
4 The smallest number that contains a "b" is billion.
5 A zillion is 'an indefinitely large number'.
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ending 7 April 2024
Answers to this week's questions on names:
1 (a) (b) and (c) Dustin Ebey has changed his name to Literally Anybody Else. Else will be competing against Biden and Trump.
2 (b). At age 19, former PETA US staffer Chris Garnett had his name legally changed to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com to help publicise cruelty to chicken.
3 Sue Yoo was appropriately working in a law firm – Wright Hassall & Co
4 William Wordsworth was a poet.
5 Tiger Woods was the world's number one golfer, using woods, putters, etc
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ending 31 March 2024
Answers to this week's questions on Sydney radio history:
1 (b) Boxing was covered by five Sydney stations in the mid-1950s.
2 (c) 2CH's weekend breakfast programs finished at midday.
3 (a) 2UW had 28 15-minute serials every week-day.
4 All of the eight Sydney stations broadcast news at 745am, except for 2UE claiming to be first at 7.44.
5 (b) Rumpus Room started at 4.49pm.
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ending 24 March 2024
Answers to this week's questions on music:
1 The introduction to some ABC radio news. It's been the news intro for over 70 years, since 1 January 1952, originally for the 7.45am news and then for the 7.00am news from 2020.
2 Yes, more than 8000 (Hymns of the Forefathers, ABC-TV 14-3-04)
3 Yes, 22, from John Quincy Adams to Woodrow Wilson (Hymns of the Forefathers, ABC-TV 14-3-04)
4 She taught blind people, helped homeless and prostitutes and was herself blind from four weeks after birth. (Hymns of the Forefathers, ABC-TV 14-3-04)
5 Oh Susanna / I come from Alabama (Sydney Morning Herald 29-12-08)
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ending 17 March 2024
Answers to this week's questions on games:
1 (a) Sudoku is a single number.
2 None. The challenge could equally well be based on symbols.
3 (c) The 194-page book was the guide to the game Rock Paper Scissors
4 (c) Phil Taylor won the PDC World Darts Championship 14 times.
5 (c) 8 of those were in consecutive years.
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ending 10 March 2024
Answers to this week's questions on singers:
1 (a) Dame Nellie Melba was born in Melbourne, after which she adopted the name 'Melba'.
2 (b) Prince was a Jehovah's Witness as well as a famous singer. It's compulsory for Jehovah's Witnesses to go door-knocking.
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3 Rapper Matt Colwell goes by the stage name 360.
4 Both. She is the daughter of Elvis Presley and ex-wife of Michael Jackson.
5 (b) Third
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ending 3 March 2024
Answers to this week's questions on swimming:
1 (c) Cam McEvoy lost a gold medal by one one-hundredth of a second.
2 (a) Ian Thorpe was never beaten in his many 400 metres events
3 All of them
4 (b) (Sydney Morning Herald 18-3-03)
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ending 25 February 2024
Answers to this week's questions on ball sports
1 (a) Andrew Gonzales had an annual salary of $US21.8m.
2 (a) Badminton has a net.
3 (b) Kristina Keneally was chair of Basketball Australia.
4 Yes. The table tennis bat is also called a club, paddle or racket.
5 (b) Bill Veeck used his wooden leg as an ashtray.
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ending 18 February 2024
Answers to this week's questions on wrong steers:
1 Iron
2 River
3 Ether
4 Goat
5 Pencil
Other answers are possible.
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ending 11 February 2024
Answers to this week's questions on mental arithmetic.
1. There were six stops. The question began with "imagine you are the driver".
2. 70. If you divide 30 by 2 you get 15, by halves you get 60.
3. Over $20 million: $21 474 836-48c
4. Amazing that you came up with an elephant!
5. 4100
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ending 4 February 2024
Answers to this week's questions on Science:
1 Yes (SMH 16-12-11)
2 (c). It should read 9.8 metres per second per second.
3 We'd all be dead.
4 They don't stand for anything. Georg Ohm was a German physicist who determined mathematically the law of the flow of electricity. (How Did Things Start?)
5 Yes. It means either of those.
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ending 28 January 2024
Answers to this week's questions on historic singers:
1 Mick Jagger's real name is Mick Jagger.
2 Elvis Presley made most of his money after his death.
3 (a) Elvis excelled in karate.
4 (c) $3700
5 (a) Keith Richard
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ending 21 January 2024
Answers to this week's questions on tennis:
1 They are vegan or have eaten a mostly vegan diet.
2 (b)
3 (b) The feel of a nylon strand in the racquet stringing would be either rough or smooth depending on which way the racquet landed after being tossed.
4 (b) (Marshall Fisher, A Terrible Splendor)
5 Federer (David Astle)
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ending 14 January 2024
Answers to this week's questions on sports stars' names:
1 Tennys Sandgrove, Margaret Court and Katie Volynets excelled in tennis.
2 Usain Bolt was a runner.
3 Marina Stepanova was a hurdler.
4 Nathan Leeper was a high jumper.
5 Layne Beachley was a surfer.
6 Chuck Long was a footballer.
(Canberra Times)
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ending 7 January 2024
Psychological answers to this week's questions on psychology:
1 This is a possible list: 1 God (depending on one's view of his existence), 2 Santa Claus, 3 Ronald McDonald, 4 The Good Samaritan, 5 Robin Hood, 6 Superman, 7 Rambo, 8 Robinson Crusoe, 9 Harry Potter, 10 Marlboro Man. (Reserve: Ebenenzer Scrooge) Give yourself a pass.
2 We can't come up with an answer. We're confident you can.
3 (a) (2GB)
4 We hope not. It's a gossiping, reckless or irresponsible person.
5 Because of unforeseen circumstances.
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