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Regular readers of this column (I believe there are three of you now) will remember that at the end of each year I post a competition with the possibility of winning one or more of my books. Either the prize is not enticing enough or the questions are too difficult, but two years in a row I have had no entries. Looking on the bright side, that means I've saved the cost of postage. Looking on the dark side, ... (fill in the blank as appropriate...) Anyway, because I'm being lazy this week, and it's a quick way of writing the column, here are the answers. 2002 (click for the questions) Section One: The Egoist 1) Josephine (see here) 2) Leaning slightly backwards (see here) 3) A large island in the Mardi Archipelago (see here) 4) Gérard Lenorman (see here) 5) Ecstasy (see here) 6) Kathmandu (see here) 7) Eighty (see here) 8) I'm embarrassed to admit I've forgotten, but you can inhale here... 9) The Los Angeles Reader (see here) 10) The god of love's (see here) Section Two: Literature Lite 11) I can't remember, but it's in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose 12) Moby Dick 13) Tom Ripley 14) Hamlet, if memory serves me correctly 15) Never reveal the murderer in an Agatha Christie... 16) C P Cavafy 17) Graham Greene 18) Luke Rhinehart 19) Georges Perec 20) Ayn Rand 21) The letter E Section Three: Geography Lite 22) Kenya 23) various theories from South America to television heaven 24) North African desert 25) Sahf London Section Three: 2002 26) Mwai Kibaki 27) Morocco or Spain, depending on your politics 28) President of Brazil 29) I can't remember 30) Rowan Williams 2003 (click for the questions) Section One: The Egoist 1) - 4) unanswerable Section Two: Literature Lite Grade the following (1: awful, 2: ok, 3: excellent) 5) 2 6) 2 7) 2 8) 2.5 Section Three: Geography Lite 9) New York City 10) Lisle Street in London 11) China 12) Virginia Section Four: 2003 13) In George Bush's mind 14) Al Qaeda 15) Sensitivity prevents me from answering 16) Why doesn't anyone believe me? The judge's decision was final. At least that's over for another nine and a half months. See you again at the end of the year! |
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