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- What form of transport
is a howdah?
❑Horse-drawn carriage
❑Dog-drawn sled
❑Elephant-carried seat
❑Human-drawn cart - On which monument
is written “Give me your
tired, your poor, your
huddled masses”?
❑Arc de Triomphe
❑Ta j Ma h a l
❑Big Trout of Gore
❑Statue of Liberty - What was the name of
the first dog in space?
❑Astro
❑Laika
❑Ham
❑Balto - True or false? The word
“goodbye” is a contraction
of “God be with ye”.
❑True
❑False
5. Which country built a
series of pyramid-shaped
fortifications that were
known as the Toblerone
Line?
❑Sweden
❑New Zealand
❑Ireland
❑Switzerland
6. Which television
series often featured
the catchphrase “You
rang?”
❑The Addams Family
❑Seinfeld
❑Absolutely Fabulous
❑Home Improvement
7. In an infamous incident
in 1992, which singer
tore up a photograph
of the Pope on Saturday
Night Live?
❑Alanis Morissette
❑Courtney Love
❑Sinéad O’Connor
❑Barry Manilow
8. Which disaster was
found to have been caused
by an O-ring failure?
❑Challenger shuttle
explosion
❑Hindenburg fire
❑Kursk submarine sinking
❑Chernobyl meltdown
9. From where did the
phrase “in the limelight”
originate?
❑Religious ceremony
❑Theatre
❑Naval tradition
❑Silent film
10. Which culture built
the famous Machu Picchu
citadel?
❑Olmecs
❑Aztecs
❑Maya
❑Incas
Answers on page 62.(^10) by GABE ATKINSON
Quick
Questions
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ing. I think most intelligent
people are able to decide
for themselves whether
someone else’s view is
acceptable or not.
Jerome O’Malley
(Masterton)
MAKING BIG BONES
The osteoporosis story
(“The bone people”,
May 11) is misleading
with regard to vitamin D
involvement in bone loss.
The vitamin D endocrine
system functions to regu-
late intestinal absorption of
calcium from foods, kidney
reabsorption of calcium,
and bone cell chemistry,
via parathyroid hormone.
And low vitamin D status
causes bone pain.
It’s good to see some pro-
dairy-food writing, but the
article disregards the contri-
bution to vitamin D status
from foods, which may be
more significant than the
oft-quoted figure of 10%.
The cholesterol-derived
hormone vitamin D is a
component of animal fat.
The science shows that
the more frequent exposure
to the sun by mammals
grazing on grass, the more
vitamin D accumulates and
is measured in the milk and
beef fat.
Low calcium intake
during adolescence, when
bone tissue is accumu-
lated through rapid bone
growth, will mark an
individual as vulnerable in
later life.
Janet Taylor
(Hamilton)
Listener reviewers Diana
Wichtel (TV), left, and
Charlotte Grimshaw
(books) took joint hon-
ours in the best-reviewer
category of last week’s
Voyager Media Awards.
The pair were com-
mended by the judges for
their “highly read-
able, entertaining – and
ultimately inseparable
- portfolios”, delivered
with intelligence, humour
and style, and an absence
of self-important bluster.
Grimshaw’s portfolio
included reviews for The
Spinoff and Landfall
Review Online.
Award winners