MARCH 10 2018 LISTENER 7
Thomas Adès
THE EXTERMINATING
ANGEL
In Cinemas from March 8
for a limited time
- What is believed to be the
longest-living species of
vertebrate?
❑Tu a ta ra
❑Giant tortoise
❑Blue-headed macaw
❑Greenland shark - Which of these was invented
first?
❑Candle
❑Oil lamp - Whose motto was “Speak
softly, and carry a big stick.”
❑Genghis Khan
❑Theodore Roosevelt
❑Margaret Thatcher
❑Fidel Castro - True or false? Viagra, when
dissolved in water, can perk up
wilting flowers.
❑True
❑False
4. Which of these comic strips
was the basis for a now-
defunct theme park in West
Auckland?
❑Footrot Flats
❑Garfield
❑Peanuts
❑Calvin and Hobbes
5. Which TV sketch comedy
show launched the careers of
Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx and
Jennifer Lopez?
❑Mad TV
❑Saturday Night Live
❑In Living Colour
❑The Tracey Ullman Show
6. Which of these best
describes the historical
occupation of “gong farmer”?
❑Waste management
❑Market gardener
❑Instrument maker
❑Prison warden
7. Which movie begins with the
words: “Maycomb was a tired
old town, even in 1932 when I
first knew it.”
❑Paper Moon
❑To Kill a Mockingbird
❑Bonnie and Clyde
❑The Grapes of Wrath
9. In which city is the Uffizi
Gallery, one of the world’s
most-visited art museums?
❑Bologna
❑Naples
❑Venice
❑Florence
10. The dish called scouse,
strongly associated with
Liverpool, consists of what?
❑Meat stew
❑Blood sausage
❑Fish chowder
❑Bread pudding Answers on
page 62.
(^10) by GABE ATKINSON
Quick
Questions
of government and power or a
glorified crèche?
C Keane
(Whakatane)
The letter writers opining on
Bill English’s legacy (March 3)
clearly know little about the
economy or they would have
mentioned that, according
to OECD figures, from 2009
to 2016, we had higher GDP
growth than all of Western
Europe, the US, Canada and
Japan. That is an impressive
achievement in anyone’s book.
Paul Wilton
(Albany, Auckland)
POETRY IN MOTION
“Pull up a stool” (Books &
Culture, February 24) makes
some good points. We’re all
grown-ups here. To refer to
bodily functions with prudish
euphemisms, stool pidgin, if
you will, gives me the what’s-
its. However, the next time the
Listener has a bowel notion,
perhaps it should give the
more delicate reader wind of it
on the front cover.
Dean Donoghue
(Papamoa Beach)
PUSHING PEDALLING
In Wellington’s Island Bay,
there were months of consul-
tation on its cycleway, and
people there and elsewhere
have heard about the coming
of bike paths for years (“Bike-
lash”, February 17).
But as Kathryn King of Auck-
land Transport kindly puts
it about its cycleways, “We
didn’t perhaps hear from all
the people who now have
concerns.”
Indeed. The catalyst for the
Island Bay bikelash was, to use
the vernacular, the council
finally getting around to build-
ing the bloody thing.
As Kirsty Wild says in the
Listener, “cycle lanes present
fundamental challenges to
existing power relationships
within cities”.
Richard Keller
(Lyall Bay, Wellington)
I recently visited Copenhagen
where cycling is, indeed, the
norm. However, “Bikelash”
omits to mention that the
Danish capital has an inte-
grated public transport system
that includes excellent and
frequent bus, tram and train
routes. And with apartment
living the norm in Scandina-
vian cities, cycling or catching
a tram or train is standard.
Christchurch City Council,
while hell-bent on installing
cycleways and reducing car
parking spaces, is not provid-
ing readily accessible, frequent
public transport services. Until
this is resolved, cars will still
dominate on the roads.
Madeleine Price
(Christchurch)
LETTER OF THE WEEK