[thechat] Do I want a yacht? Oh, how I do not! [answers]
Paul Cowan
evolt at funkwit.com
Thu May 30 20:16:00 CDT 2002
Hey all,
Answers below, because William did such a good job.
> 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.
Ah. Well, there you go. "Who wants to be a half-trillionaire" has a pretty
nice ring to it....
> > 1) Every year, the US president delivers the "state of the (what)"
> > address?
>
> Nation
yep (obviously)
>
> > 2) Tobey Maguire plays which superhero in the upcoming movie of the
> > same name?
>
> Spider-Man
yep (even more obviously)
> > 3) The Strait of Gibraltar connects the Atlantic Ocean with which
> > sea?
>
> Mediterranean
yep
> > 4) What Australian artist is famous for his paintings of Ned Kelly?
>
> Sidney Nolan (had to google for that one!)
Yep. Thought non-Aussies might have a hard time with that one. Fairly easy
for most Australians, I would think; in fact, I was surprised at how easy
the questions were.
> > 5) Nostradamus was born in which country?
>
> France
Yep.
> > 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
I think the answer they were after was "atmosphere". I'm not sure though. I
was paraphrasing (it was a bit hard to write down exactly what she was
saying while still trying to think of the answer), so it might have been a
bit easier if I had explained it better.
> > 7) Estimation: How many complaints were made to the Commonwealth
> > Ombudsman about about the Australian Taxation Office last year?
>
> 7,800 (he said guessing!)
3,354.
http://www.comb.gov.au/publications_information/Annual_Reports/AR2000-01/tax
%20report.pdf
(watch for wrap)
(I guessed 11,000, so well done!)
Cheers all,
Paul
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