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15 March 2004



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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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