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SEPTEMBER 14 2019 LISTENER
- True or false? The Earth’s
ozone layer has been
healing in the last two
decades.
❑True
❑False - Which spectacular
comet was visible to the
naked eye in 1996 and
1997?
❑Halley
❑Shoemaker-Levy 9
❑McNaught
❑Hale-Bopp - Which athlete was
involved in a collision with
Zola Budd at the 1984
Olympics?
❑Anne Audain
❑Mary Decker
❑Merlene Ottey
❑Lorraine Moller - Who has hosted the
Oscars a record 19 times
(far more than anyone
else)?
❑Bob Hope
❑Johnny Carson
❑Steve Martin
❑Billy Crystal- Which of these words
means a diplomatic course
of action or manoeuvre?
❑Empennage
❑Démarche
❑Consommé
❑Seigniorage - Which of these actors
made their breakthrough
at age 50 in a 1987 movie
titled Street Smart?
❑Alan Rickman
❑Judi Dench
❑Morgan Freeman
❑Kathy Bates - What is the world’s
fourth-most populous
country after China, India,
and the USA?
❑Bangladesh
❑Indonesia
❑Brazil
❑Pakistan
8. Where would you find
the masseter, one of the
human body’s strongest
muscles?
❑Head
❑Shoulder
❑Neck
❑Leg
9. Which racing yacht won
the 1983 America’s Cup
with a famous victory over
Liberty?
❑Kiwi Magic
❑Luna Rossa
❑Australia II
❑Black Magic
10. For which comic strip
was Matt Groening known
prior to creating The
Simpsons?
❑Non Sequitur
❑Doonesbury
❑The Wizard of Id^
❑Life in Hell
Answers on page 62.(^10) by GABE ATKINSON
Quick
Questions
in “reply”, and “inga”
as in ... um ... “singer”.
From there, “inga” became
“enga”, just as “milk”
has become, at least in
my “children’s” speech,
“melk”. (I haven’t heard
“mook” in years.)
On this topic, Tauranga
artist Mr G has a novel way
of re-educating us in the
correct pronunciation of
Māori place names.
Roger Anderson
(Pt Chevalier, Auckland)
ECLECTIC DREAMS
Bill Ralston speculates that
if the entire vehicle fleet
became electric, we might
require one or two new
Clyde dams to power it
(Life, September 7).
Not so. I have a small
(2kWh) solar-power system
on my roof that in a year
generates enough electricity
to drive my EV 18,000km.
Most EVs are charged at
night when there is a large
surplus of generating capac-
ity. In future, when EVs are
common, their batteries
could be used to feed power
into the national grid at
times of peak demand,
reducing the need to con-
struct expensive “peaker”
power stations.
John Hayman
(Christchurch)
I have driven diesel cars for
20 years and I will continue
to do so. Why? Because,
soon, biodiesel will be
available, a fuel much more
eco-friendly than others.
Bernard Redshaw
(Nelson)
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first-language interference
and the influence of the
written over the oral.
Seeing an unfamiliar
word, someone split it
into familiar bits: “re” as