Hello! No diary today because I’m about to gather my belongings and trundle off to hospital. All going well, by the end of today I will have only half as much prostate in me as I started with.
So instead of the usual review of the day, here’s another of those quizzes that proved so handy while we were out in the wilderness.
I’d push the pause button on this thing like I did at Christmas, but I now know that's a certain recipe for turning the subscriptions machine to death mode. A few dozen subscribers got vapourised, so we won't be doing that again.
Anyway, here's today’s quiz, and I believe the answers should all be correct this time, unmolested by connection complications.
Also, in honour of the day do please help yourselves to this reposting about my last adventure in surgery. I’m fully expecting this one to go better.
Uncle Dave’s Out of Office Quiz
Thursday 11 March
1. Why did Neil Young think you were like a Hurricane?
a. Humidity is rising, barometer's getting low
b. There’s calm in your eye
c. There’s a bad moon on the rise
d. Your guess is good as mine
2. For no reason that makes any sense, those baffling Americans call it sheetrock. What do we call it?
a. Rocky road
b. Pink and White Terraces
c. Gib
d. Mitre Peak
3. What son of a Kirk government minister will let you ring him up and talk to you about politics at 2 in the morning?
a. John Kirk
b. Tony Amos
c. Simeon Brown
d. Simon Bridges
4. What was the most popular internet browser in 1995?
a. Facebook
b. Netscape Navigator
c. Internet Explorer
d. Compuserve
5. How old was creepy dude with Caesar hair Mark Zuckberg in 1995?
a. 11
b. 21
c. 31
d. 69
6. Who was the flagbearer of the New Zealand team at the Moscow Olympics?
a. Brian Edwards
b. Brian Brake
c. Brian Newth
d. Brian of Nazareth
7. Which one of these was not a TV show containing Brian Edwards?
a. Edwards on Saturday
b. Fair Go
c. Edwards Sure to Rise
d. Edwards at Large
8. An Auckland report on congestion pricing found that half of all trips in the city are under what distance?
a. 6km
b. 9km
c. 14km
d. 18km
9. The rats have all got rickets, they spit through broken teeth. Where are we?
a. Beasley St
b. National Party Caucus
c. Baldwin St
d. Omaha
10. The New Zealander newspaper supported the Maori King movement and opposed the invasion of the Waikato. Its co-owner objected to this stand of decency, chucked his toys out his cot and went off to set up what newspaper?
a. Fox News
b. The Sun
c. NZ Herald
d. NZ Truth
11. Whose first political protest was against the closure of the Nelson Section?
a. Sonja Davies
b. Sonja Yelich
c. Lorde
d. Sony NZ
12. Who said It's good to be in something from the ground floor. And I came too late for that, I know. But lately, I'm getting the feeling that I came in at the end.
a. Judith Collins
b. KFC customer
c. Tony Soprano
d. Rose Matafeo
13. What was an action gusset?
a. An illegal move in rugby league
b. A legal move in rugby league as long as you kept your digit out of the other player
c. Fancy kind of cigarette-holder
d. Something they put in a Bob Charles shirt
14. How many number one songs were there in 1975, apart from Yesterday Was Just The Beginning of My Life?
a. 10
b. 15
c. 20
d. 32
15. Was Sailing one of them?
a. Fuck no
b. Hell no
c. As if
d. Yes
ANSWERS
1. b
2. c
3. b
4. b
5. a
6. c
7. c
8. a
9. a
10. c
11. a
12. c
13. d
14. a
15. a, b, c
That was,a fun quiz
Good luck with the TURP - I had this back in July and the result is fabulous. Not much fun the recovery etc but well worth it. Drink lots of water!!