Answers
Posted by:
Jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: November 20, 2002 10:07AM
<HTML>Here are the answers to last week’s quiz;
1. The correct answer was ‘a melon’, but I am prepared to allow ‘sheep’. Only half a point for ‘inflatable’, I’m afraid.
2. This fooled a lot of you. The right answer was ‘George Bush’, and not ‘a fungus growing on a damp wall’ as many of you thought.
3. Bridget Jones’ Diary. The others are all works of literature.
4. A mixed response here. Some of you sent in the complete plans for building a DH-82 Tiger Moth biplane, some a list of all London Underground stations North of Gunnersbury, and nobody sent in the right answer, which was ‘Dralon’. Better luck next time.
5. This was a trick question, of course. The right answer was ‘Thursday Next’. A point off for anyone who said ‘Margaret Thatcher’.
6. Well, most of you got ‘Tony Blair’, correctly working out that Professor Moriarty, Count Fosco, Wackford Squeers and Edward Hyde are all fictional.
7. It takes five folk-singers to change a light-bulb. One to do it, and four to sing about how good the old one was.
8. The odd one out was ‘Jennifer Lopez’. All the others are vegetables.
9. The right answer was ‘Shakespeare’. Anybody answering ‘Freddie Mercury’ should seek help.
10. And finally, the third orc from the right was called ‘Mugluf’. Anyone who got this right is a very sad bastard indeed.
The prize, as usual, is an hours supply of Hobnobs. (About five packets in my case). And the winner was - Jon Brierley. What a surprise. Complaints, death threats, etc. to the usual address, please.</HTML>