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1 Bill
Thank you for your entries. Some very good answers, and the winner, with
50 points, was Bill, just shading it from Mike, also with 50 points, on
timing. Keith was a close third with 48. Congratulations also to BrownFurby, an
all-correct answer except for the sport, omitted on principle (sorry but there
is always a lot of it in the newspapers) and to Sylvie, who wins the
consolation prize.
I said the bonuses were just for fun as some of them
were, I thought, a fair bit harder.
Nevertheless Bill got all but one, and Mike and Keith missed only a
handful between them.
Here are all the
answers:
Home News
1. Lotto.
Bonus: 1994
2. Estelle Morris, former Secretary of State for
Education, who told the press "I have not done the job as well as I should
have done". Bonus: Charles Clarke
3. Edwina Currie. Bonus:
A Parliamentary Affair
4. Lord Archer, moved from open to closed
prison. Bonus: Gillian Shephard, deputy Conservative Party
chairman
5. Green Goddess. Bonus:
According to an MOD press release, there are 827, but between 800 and
900 is close enough
The pictures
were: the National Lottery logo, Clarke,
the Houses of Parliament, a prison interior, a Green Goddess
Foreign News
6. Slobodan Milosevic. Bonus:
the indictment specifies crimes in
7. Colin Powell.
Bonus: Donald Rumsfeld
8. Nord-Ost.
Bonus: North East
9. Boris Becker.
Bonus: Three
10. Jacques Chirac. Bonus:
Jean-Marie Le Pen
The pictures
were: Milosevic, Powell, a scene from
Nord-Ost, Becker, Le Pen
Arts and
Entertainment
11. Will Young.
Bonus: Gareth Gates
12. Xbox.
Bonus: Sony (Playstation 2) [some
of you put Nintendo GameCube: I
obviously can’t vouch for the figures, but I did read in more than one source
that Sony were the market leaders, though things may have changed]
13. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Bonus:
Kenneth Branagh
14. Kylie Minogue, for Fever. Bonus:
Sting
15. Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones). Bonus:
Bobby Robson, former
The pictures
were: Young, the Xbox, Harry Potter,
cover of Fever, Jagger and Robson
Business and
Technology
16. Freeview.
Bonus: ONdigital
17. Twelve.
Bonus:
18. Ariane.
Bonus: Kourou, French
19. Carrots, grown in their original colour of
purple (the Dutch having popularised the present orange colour in the 16th
Century). Bonus: Sainsbury's
20.
The pictures
were: a Freeview set-top box, Euro
notes, Ariane, carrots, the Millennium bridge at
Sport
21. Lance Armstrong. Bonus:
Four (Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Jacques Anquetil, Miguel Indurain)
22. Ronaldo with 8 goals. Bonus:
Gary Lineker in
23. Semi-final.
Bonus: Lleyton Hewitt
24.
25. Michael Schumacher. Bonus:
Ferrari
The pictures
were: Armstrong, Lineker, Henman, Lewis,
a Ferrari