6 LISTENER FEBRUARY 29 2020
LETTERS
“Sussex Royals sounds like
a variety of potato. Fits in
nicely with Jersey Royal,
British Queen, Duke of York
and King Edward.” – letter to
the Times“He looks just like he went
to the beach wearing a
dog cone. Trump only
cares about the top 1%,
even when he’s applying
sunscreen to his face.” – Seth
Meyers on Trump’s fake tan lines“Parasite is a South Korean
film that tells the story of a
family who con their way
into a house they have no
business living in and things
go very wrong from there.
The American version of it is
called ‘The Trumps’.” – Jimmy
Kimmel on the Oscar-winning
film“Parasite wins despite there
being no host.” – comedian
James Colley on the Oscars“This is a reminder to
smokers that this is a non-
smoking flight, and this is
a reminder to vapers, you
don’t look as cool as you
think you do.” – Ed Gamble on
Mock the Week“I don’t like to call it the
one ring, I like to call it an
unexpected item in the
Baggins area.” – Ed Gamble
about Lord of the Rings“Welcome to The Hunger
Games, or as it’s also known,
London Fashion Week.”
– comedian Angela Barnes“Nobody loves Australia
quite as much as
Australians.” – Stephen Fry“Don’t get angry, and keep
smiling.” – the world’s oldest
man, Chitetsu Watanabe, on a
long lifeQuips&
Quotes
Treaty partners? Brown waka
on blue (sea) background.
Patricia Booth
(Karori Rd, Wellington)In February 1990, during the
Festival of Expression at Eva
Rickard’s marae in Raglan,
an Aotearoa flag design- What was the name of the
Bundy family’s first pet dog in
Married ... with Children?
❑Marcel
❑Elvis
❑Comet
❑Buck - Which film features the
quote: “All those moments
will be lost in time, like tears in
rain”?
❑Blade Runner
❑Men in Black
❑The Green Mile
❑Back to the Future - In which country did
the ritual of land diving (a
precursor to bungee jumping)
originate?
❑Brazil
❑Vanuatu
❑Japan
❑Solomon Islands
4. Which beverage was
formerly consumed to prevent
malaria?
❑Coffee
❑Tonic water
❑Hot chocolate
❑Coca-Cola
5. Who is said to have solved
the the Gordian Knot puzzle?
❑Friedrich Nietzsche
❑Archimedes
❑Sappho
❑Alexander the Great
6. True or false? Brown and
white eggs are nutritionally
different.
❑True
❑False
7. What kind of instrument is
an ocarina?
❑Keyboard
❑String
❑Percussion
❑Wind
8. Which city will host the
Commonwealth Games in
2022?
❑Birmingham
❑Nairobi
❑Mumbai
❑Liverpool
9. Which town was the subject
of a 1950s railway-themed
song by Peter Cape?
❑Taumarunui
❑Taihape
❑Te Kūiti
❑Waiōuru
10. Which capital city was
designed in part by the
architect Oscar Niemeyer?
❑Ottawa
❑Brasília
❑Canberra
❑Madrid
Answers on
page 54.can support ourselves more
sustainably, with less reliance
on a (so-called) communist
state or the (increasingly so-
called) free world.
Charles Goodwin
(Devonport, Auckland)ROYAL “BATTLER”
It is nice when a Kiwi does
well overseas, but the fawning
spread afforded Dan Wootton
(“Battle royal”, February 22) is(^10) by GABE ATKINSON
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hard to swallow.
Yes, the Sun has fearlessly
taken on the House of Wind-
sor. But lots of little people
have also been its target and
they had neither the resources
nor the resilience of the royals.
He boasts that “our leader
column every day is probably
as closely examined by Gov-
ernment ministers – us and
the Daily Mail – as any other
paper”. This precisely encap-
sulates the debasement of UK
politics. And now we have a
minor celeb, Caroline Flack,
apparently hounded to death
by the tabloids.
The boy has done well.
Jim Colvine
(Mangawhai Heads)
FLOATING FLAG IDEAS
How about a waka
hourua (double-hulled
canoe) on a new flag
(Editorial, January
4) to signify the two