6/9

6/9 in NBR’s Biz Quiz.

Friday’s answers

Thursday’s questions were:

1. Who said: You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.?

2. Who wrote Not a Penny More, Not A Penny Less?

3. It’s argent in French, denaro in Italian, dinero in Spanish – what is it in English and Maori?

4. What period of deficits was Labour forecasting if it retained power in 2008?

5.What would you include in the Budget if you were writing it?

Points for answers:

Bulaman got 2 1/2 (#3 had two parts) and a bonus for wit.

Alwyn got 4.

Answers follow the break:

Thursday’s quiz

1. Who said: You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.?

2. Who wrote Not a Penny More, Not A Penny Less?

3. It’s argent in French, denaro in Italian, dinero in Spanish – what is it in English and Maori?

4. What period of deficits was Labour forecasting if it retained power in 2008?

5.What would your priorities for the Budget be if you were writing it?

7/10

7/10 in Stuff’s Biz Quiz.

6/10

6/10 in NBR’s Biz Quiz.

Word of the day

Stravage – to roam; wander aimlessly; saunter or stroll.

10/10

10/10 in the Nz Herald’s politics quiz (though one answer was a slip of a finger with a guess so maybe I should claim only 9).

Friday’s answers

Andrei and Alwyn posed the questions yesterday, thank you.

They also provided some answers, (and Andrei gets a bonus for humour in doing so for #3) but not all so both win an electronic batch of citrus slice for stumping us all.

It can be claimed when you leave the answers below.

Thursday’s quiz

It’s your turn to set the questions again.

Anyone who stumps everyone will win an electronic batch of citrus slice.

5/10

5/10 in Stuff’s Biz Quiz.

Friday’s answers

Thursday’s questions were:

1. Who said: All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

2. What are the final two lines of this: eight hours work, eight hours play . . . . “?

3. It’s travailler in French, lavoro in Italian, trabajar in Spanish and mahi in Maori, what is it in English?

4. How many statutory days holiday does a New Zealand worker have?

5. What’s your dream job?

Points for answers:

Andrei got 2 1/2 (sleep was right but you left out the pay) with a bonus for extra information.

Tiffany would have got one – you don’t have to be first.

Grant got 2 1.2 with a bonus for high flying dreams.

Rob got 3 right with a  bonus 1/2 for the nationality of the one who made the quote – though spelling labor without a u was a pretty big hint that he was from the USA.

Tracey got 3 with a  bonus 1/2 for the nationality too.

Alwyn wins an electronic batch of biscuits with five right.

Gravedodger got four and a bonus for humour.

Answers follow the break:

Thursday’s quiz

1. Who said: All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

2. What are the final two lines of this: eight hours work, eight hours play . . . . “?

3. It’s travailler in French, lavoro in Italian, trabajar in Spanish and mahi in Maori, what is it in English?

4. How many statutory days holiday does a New Zealand worker have?

5. What’s your dream job?

Friday’s answers

Thursday’s questions were:

1. What did General Bernard Freyberg reply to a British General who complained that New Zealand soldiers weren’t very good at saluting?

2. Anzac troops were at Gallipoli in an effort to control which strategic waterway?

3. When was Anzac Day first observed?

4.About how many New Zealanders died at Gallipoli?

5. How did you mark Anzac Day?

Answers follow the break.

Points for answers:

PDM gets four – your sentiment for # 4 was correct even if you didn’t give a number.

Andrei got four with a bonus for extra information and sympathy for the bereavement.

Gravedodger wins an electronic batch with five right and bonus for extra information.

Grant gets four. NZ History Online says 1916 but doesn’t mention the prayer service in 1915.

 

Thursday’s quiz

1. What did General Bernard Freyberg reply to a British General who complained that New Zealand soldiers weren’t very good at saluting?

2. Anzac troops were at Gallipoli in an effort to control which strategic waterway?

3. When was Anzac Day first observed?

4.About how many New Zealanders died at Gallipoli?

5. How did you mark Anzac Day?

Answers follow the break.

Friday’s answers

Andrei provided the questions for yesterday’s quiz.

(1) Where was Prometheus chained to a rock to have his liver eaten by an Eagle as punishment for giving fire to mankind

(2) Who wrote the Novella “Prisoner of the Caucasus”?

(3) What does the city of Vladikavkaz’s name mean if translated to English?

(4) What was at Maykop that was important to the Germans in WW2?

(5) Where will 2014 Winter Olympics be held?

He wins an electronic chocolate cake for providing the questions which stumped everyone and can claim it by leaving the answers here, please.

Thursday’s quiz

The question for this week’s quiz are in your hands.

Anyone who stumps everyone will win an electronic chocolate cake.

7/10, 2/10

Only 7/10 in the Herald’s politics quiz.

A red-faced 2/10 in NBR’s Biz Quiz (which proves random guesses don’t always work).

 

Friday’s answers

Thursday’s questions were:

1. Who said, I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.?

2.  Which Prime Minister did Margaret Thatcher defeat to win her first election as leader and which Prime Minister defeated her?

3.  What was Thatcher’s first job after graduating?

4. It’s fer in French, ferro in Italian, fierro in Spanish and rino in Maori, what is it in English.

5.  To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.  True, false, it depends?

Points for answers:

Andrei got 4 1/2 – yes #1 was very easy and no, that’s not how you spell Callaghan.

Grant also got 4 1/2.

Gravedodger got a clean sweep, the only one to give both answers to #2, and wins an electronic chocolate cake.

Adam got 3 1/2.

Answers follow the break:

1.  Margaret Thatcher.

2. James Callaghan preceded her and John Major follower her.

3. Industrial chemist.

4. Iron.

5. I wouldn’t go quite as far as that, but consensus is rarely, if ever, achieved without compromise.

Thursday’s quiz

1. Who said, I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.?

2.  Which Prime Minister did Margaret Thatcher defeat to win her first election as leader and which Prime Minister defeated her?

3.  What was Thatcher’s first job after graduating?

4. It’s fer in French, ferro in Italian, fierro in Spanish and rino in Maori, what is it in English.

5.  To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.  True, false, it depends?

 

6/10

6/10 in NBR’s Biz Quiz.