1. Who said, “Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
2. Name this tree:
3. It’s cielo in Spanish, ciel in French and rangi in Maori, what is it in English?
4. Who composed the Trumpet Voluntary?
5. Name four countries which have compulsory voting.
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1. Jane Austen.
2. Fred? It looks like a Fred – solid and dependable.
3. Star.
4. Jeremiah Clarke, although Purcell was incorrectly credited with it for years.
5. Australia; Singapore; Fiji; Brazil.
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Aw, that was my answer to (2)!
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1. Don’t know (again).
2. A baobab, perhaps.
3. The sky; the heavens.
4. Don’t know.
5. Australia; I think some central American country, possibly Guatemala; and two blanks.
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Of course my answer to (3) was meant to be star-studded SKY, I just forgot the sky bit. Honest, guv, it was a momentary loss of concentration and not an embarrassing climbdown upon reading Mr Gronk’s undeniably true answer to (3)…
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1 Austen.
2 no recall but have seen the shape before somewhere.
3 skies.
4 Purcell.
5 Australia, Singapore, Nauru, Fiji.
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1 Juliette Gillard’s dad
2 the boab tree
3 the sky ( not the alternative television provider)
4 Henry Purcell, but also attributed to Jeremiah Clarke ( According to the brilliant sketch by the late Peter Sellers ‘Trumpet Volunteer!)
5 Australia, Whangamomona, that kingdom in West Australia, and a last guess: China…..
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1 George Bernard Shaw?
2 Banyan tree?
3 Sky.
4 Purcell. I remember Peter Sellars skit very well too.
5 Australia, USA, Canada, Sweden.
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Looks like I’m going to charge out of the gate but fade in the straight…
1)That’s Jane Austen (I don’t know why the only quotes I get are Austen ones, I’m not exactly a fan)
2) That’s a baobab (I think the Australian species, which is sometimes called the “bottle tree” because of it’s trunk)
3) The sky
4) Pass
5) Australia and three “passes”
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1. Enery Iggins.
2. Boabab.
3. Heavens..
4. Clarke. ( Not Purcell )
5. Impossible to answer…
No one is in the ballot cubicles to compell your voting. !!.. ( Well some places maybe ).
As a non registered voter this is one subject that really gets me BREATHING FIRE !!
New Zealand does not have a democratic electoral system !!!.
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Government of the people.
By the people.
For the people.
Tui advert. HERE.
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Oh !!..
As an aside..
That tree brings visions of the Head Office of the Liabour Party..
Fat belly .. Skinny arms begging for anything avaliable..
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1. Mrs Norris in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
2.Boabab
3.sky
4.Jeremiah Clarke
5.Australia. Brazil. Singapore. Uraguay
This is my first attempt at this. If consulting Google is not allowed then you will have to disqualify me!
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