1. Why was Ernesto Guevara given the nickname Che?
2. What do you add to soil to improve its pH?
3. Who said “Relativity applies to physics not ethics.”?
4. Who wrote Scruffy and what sort of animal was he (Scruffy not the author).
5. What is actinidia chinensis?
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1 Don’t know the connection but I understand che to be a conversation filler along the lines of the modern use of yuno and like, that I sometimes count when McCaw and others are interviewed and miss the interview, as one has to concentrate, yuno, like I cant multi task, yuno.
2 crushed limestone.
3 Albert Einstien
4 Very common name for a dog but Paul Galico (The Snow Goose)wrote of a Gibralter Monkey so named
5 Kiwi Fruit we had our first fruit of the vines here in our Garden of Eden this year.
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My last quiz for a little while, as I’m off to conference in the US…
1) Pass
2) Usually you want to make a soil less acidic, so you add calcium in some form (limestone, quick lime etc). It’s not usually a problem on pasture, but soils can also be too alkalai. In that case you add urea or compost.
3) Einstein
4) Not so much as a clue
5) I think the kiwifruit is A. delciosa so perhaps this is a wild relative?
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(1) who cares
(2) lime reduces soil acidity if thats what the gist of the question is
(3) Albert Einstien
(4)Scruffy was a tugboat – the author, some fellow who worked in the little Golden Books sweatshops along with illustrators churning out such things in the late 1940s and early fifties. Mind you that one is a classic of the genre.
(5)I think that is a fancy name for the Kiwi Fruit plant
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1. Cheater. He will have flogged taxpayers money.
2. Lime – you have to watch the ph on cotula and maniatoto lawn bowling greens.
3. Either Newton or Einstein.
4. Among the numerous, over 50 I would think, Golden Books we had at home when the kids were growing up was one called Scruffy the tugboat.
5. pass.
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1 ‘Che’ is the equivalent of ‘Maaate!’ as we would say here. It is from the linguistic equivalent of our rugby playing doctor’s propensity to call everybody ‘friend’.
2 lime.. we city boys know his sort of stuff..
3 Never did undertand physics
4 eh, pass
5 Chinese gooseberries!
Sorry about the above… don’t know what happened… can you snow-pake it out, HP?
ps snow-pake was invented by the Monkee’s Mike Nesmith’s grandmother… not many people know that!
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Paul – snowpake? I get what you meant and acted on it but have never heard of snowpake.
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HP: It was actually snopake, same as tipp-ex, a white ink used to cover typing mistakes. A very clever product before technology made it redundant! (Not dissimilar no doubt to a lot of our good-selves!!)
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