Thursday’s questions were:
1. Which novel opens: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” and who is the author?.
2. Who said: “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess “?
3. What are malbec and tempranillo?
4. In which ocean is Madagascar?
5. It’s feu in French,fuoco in Italian, feugo fuego in Spanish and ahi in Maori, what is it in English?
Points for answers:
Paul scored four with a bonus for wit.
Andrei wins an electronic bottle of wine from Mendoza for five right.
PDM got one with a bonus for being right last week.
David got three with a bonus for extra information and deduction (I think au feu means on the fire which is how they cook it).
Cadwallader got 4 1/2 (right book but forgot to put the author).
Adam got two and a bonus for correcting my typo. (Terra del Fuego is a family joke because when we were in Argentina my farmer said that instead of hasta luego – which is a casual farewell statement, litterally until later).
Like Pooh Bear’s friend Rabbit I’m having a busy day. I’m writing this a few hours before you’ll see it. If you answered after I wrote it you’ll have to award yourself points.
Answers follow the break:
1. 1984 by George Orwell.
2. Oscar Wilde.
3. Grapes used to make red wine.
4. The Indian Ocean.
5. Fire.
Homepaddock 
“2. Who said: “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess ”?”
Don’t know but I thank them. I live by that dictum.
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Gravedodger got a NYC, not yet competent as Thursday slipped in behind and kicked him painfully.
Self marked a four and would have guessed that 2 was very likely a Wilde Oscar with its reference to moderation and excess.
That 1984 eh when I read it for the first time it was such a dark forbidding world it described but there are many who would embrace much of the scene it portrayed today with cctv and digital records, not to mention the very sick security lapse and ongoing misuse of personal data by the socialists with their acceptance of the means justify the ends philosophy that The Whale exposed the other day.
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