[thechat] Do I want a yacht? Oh, how I do not!

[William Anderson]

---- Original Message ----
From: "Paul Cowan" <evolt at funkwit.com>
To: <thechat at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 12:06 AM
Subject: [thechat] Do I want a yacht? Oh, how I do not!

> [wwtbam snippage]

hey, good luck dude

> For what it's worth, $1 million Australian = about $510K US.
> Dammit. Why can't I be on the US version... or even better, the
> UK one? I'm just glad I'm not on the Turkish one... that works out
> to about a 70 cents US by my (very rough) calculations.

only if they were offering 1,000,000 turkish lira as the prize ... which
they're not.  In Turkey, it's "Kim Besyuzmilyar Ister?" and the top prize is
500,000,000,000 lira, which is roughly US$ 348,000.  The biggest win so far
is 125,000,000,000 lira, or around US$ 87,000.

> If I win big, I promise I will buy several evolt mousepads in exchange
> for your good wishes.

lol ;)

> For what it's worth, and to keep you all occupied for a few seconds,
> here are the 6 questions that were asked over the phone to "pre-
> qualify" me. 6 are regular questions, 1 was an "estimation" question
> to be used as a tie-breaker. I'm fairly sure I got 6/6 on the first
> lot, and was out by/.. well, a bit, but certainly less than an order
> of magnitude, on the last.

OK, he says trying not to use google at all

> 1) Every year, the US president delivers the "state of the (what)"
>    address?

Nation

> 2) Tobey Maguire plays which superhero in the upcoming movie of the
>    same name?

Spider-Man

> 3) The Strait of Gibraltar connects the Atlantic Ocean with which
>    sea?

Mediterranean

> 4) What Australian artist is famous for his paintings of Ned Kelly?

Sidney Nolan (had to google for that one!)

> 5) Nostradamus was born in which country?

France

> 6) Held to the earth by "mass of gravity" is which body of gases?
>    (no, that one doesn't even make sense. I didn't write it...)

nitrogen and oxygen

> 7) Estimation: How many complaints were made to the Commonwealth
>    Ombudsman about about the Australian Taxation Office last year?

7,800 (he said guessing!)

> Answers to follow, if you'd like.

Please do, if you know them!

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