Friday, December 20, 2013

End Of The Year Quiz

probably helped that I was wearing
my lucky Dr Who t shirt
I took part in the ABC Radio National end of the year quiz here in Melbourne this morning. There were four of us there representing four of the arts: cinema, performing arts, visual arts and books. I, of course, was waving the flag for books. It was a fun quiz being broadcast across all of Australia and although my knowledge of Australian culture isn't perhaps up to the standard of the other competitors I did my best.  
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Joseph Campbell would have appreciated it because in many ways it was the classic hero's journey. By the fifteen minute mark, 1/4 of the way through the show, I was on zero points and languishing in last place. My fart gun buzzer (you had to be there) had barely sounded at all but then they started asking questions about Superman and if there's one thing I know about it's Superman, and after that, well things just started to fall into place. . .
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If you wanna know how it turned out you can listen to the programme over at the books and arts website. You'll need Real Player or Windows Media Player but they'll probably also have a podcast of the show too at some point.