From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 20:45:22 MST
At 07:21 PM 2/2/02 -0800, Chris wrote:
>The results of the Christmas Quiz are out
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/quiz/).
Hey, cool!
>One of the ones
>I chimed in on (Lone Star's flower) was incorrect. It should have been
>Bluebonnet. I didn't notice any of our Texans correcting us on that.
Barbara knew it, of course; maybe she didn't post it to the list.
>The whole thing leaves me with almost as many questions as answers.
>Other than the sections that are obviously obvious only to Brits (and
>others who still have ties to the empire, Damien?)
It's mostly a mystery to me, matey.
>And what is section 13 about?
Godnose, but...
>13 Uncover:
> 10 Snow
>10 Arthur Owens.
Scramble surname, you get Snow plus change, but maybe that's irrelevant.
This sort of parochial rubbish might be known to obsessed
British-Australians yearning for `Home', but not to me (aside from Mir):
Question 18: 1 New car licence numbers; 2 Mir
space station; 3 Des O'Connor (autobiography,
Bananas Can't Fly); 4 River Tyne (Millennium
Bridge, The Eyelid); 5 Glenalmond; 6 brain (BSE
research); 7 Ian Woosnam's; 8 St Catharine's
College, Cambridge; 9 Hull crown court (trial of
Leeds United footballers); 10 Prince Charles
(slapped with flower in Riga).
I did get 5 of the 10 Q. 6 options right, and should have done better.
Damien Broderick
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