Friday’s answers

Thursday’s questions were:

1. Who is New Zealand’s current poet laureate?

2. What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile?

3. It’s chanson; canzone in Italian; canción in Spanish and harihari in Maori, what is it in English?

4. What was Sam Hunt’s dog called?

5. Who wrote The Magpies and what did they the magpies) say?

Points for answers:

Andrei got three (and an apology if the song’s still in his head).

Cadwallader got 4 1/2 (#5 required what the Magpies said as well as the poet’s name) which earns him an electronic bottle of whatever goes well with poetry.

Gravedodger got 4 and a bonus for reminding me of the play which I enjoyed too.

Robert got one and a bonus for reminding me of Chez Elco (which might still have the name no longer has Elco).

Paul got me confused with several partially right and a bonus for wit.

Adam got 1, a good try for the Magpie sound and the thought that sometimes as an adult you’re able to appreciate arts whose attractions eluded you in your youth.

Answers follow the break:

1. Cilla McQueen.

2.A metaphor is a figure of speech in which someone/thing is said to be someone/thing s/he/it resembles; a simile uses the word like or as to compare someone/thing with another.

3. Song.

4.  Minstrel.

5. Denis Glover, Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle.