The answers!!!

We are both ecstatic with how many responses we received for our quiz :-) Thanks to everyone for their serious and not so serious answers. Mike will reveal the winner of the creative answer award in just a few minutes. The person with the most correct answers, I am pleased to announce is MY MOTHER!!! 14 correct answers, not bad at all! You're becoming more used to the idea of your daughter living in Australia every day :-)
So:
Carolyn 14
Nicole 11
Laura and Connie 9
Louisa, Jan and Emily 8
Chuck 5 (statistics working for the math teacher there!)
Bob and Kacky 4
Andrea 0

And on the correct answers!!
1.) Australians drive on the left side of the road. Amusingly enough, you're also supposed to WALK on the left side of the sidewalk. In a shopping mall, have you ever noticed the escalators? The one going up will be on the right, the one coming down will be on your left. Here it's the exact opposite. That's taken some getting used to, although if you walk into enough people you learn a little quicker....

2.) Michael Jeffery is the Governor-General of Australia AND our next door neighbor. John Howard is the prime minister and Morris Iemma is the premier of NSW.

3.) Australia has 6 states (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, West Australia and Tasmania). There are also two territories, Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory.

4.) Canberra is the capital of Australia, being conveniently located in the Australian Capital Territory :-)

5.) Definitely all beaches. They are also funny names, but no so funny as compared with some other names here in Oz: Humpty Doo, Turramurrah, Warrawee, Wooloomooloo.......

6.) Rice Krispies! Although they still have the adorable elves on the front of the box :-)

7.) Raisins. Raisin bran is sold here in Australia as Sultana Bran!

8.) A carrawong is a fabulous bird with amazing vocal abilities. He looks not unlike a crow, but can whistle, bwak like a chicken, and (my favorite) let out a resounding "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!"

9.) They do, in fact, say "G'day" and call us "mate." However, we're trying to figure out the linguistic patterns---not everyone does, and we think it may be a variation on "y'all." (By the way--I have frequently been mistaken for being Canadian--my southern inflection confuses them to no end--and I've lost most of my twang!)

10.) Full up=very busy, although I was convinced he thought my shift was over and was going to let me out a bit early :)

11.) Chockers is very full. We're guessing it has something to do with "being chock full of CDs?" ????

12.) I'll be back in a tick. I love that one!!

13.) It's some form of soybean oil that they think works just as well for cookies as Crisco. They're wrong--nothing can replace Crisco in Mike's Famous Cookies!!!

14.) Nurofen is our new form of Advil. We've discovered the joys of Australian pharmacies--a lot of things that you can't get over the counter back home you can here--hurrah for OTC Telfast (Australian Allegra!)

15.) This was the question that no one (except Chuck, by default) got right. "Digeridoo" actually came from Irish settlers, and it comes from "dúdaire or dúidire" (meaning either a long necked person or a crooner) and "dubh" (meaning black or native). The digeridoo has been around for over 1500 years but has only been called that since the 1800s. !!!!!

Thanks for playing--we had such a good response we may just have to have another one soon!!

~Ruth Ann

Excellent work everyone! I am most impressed with the creativity of answers: both within the confines of the 'rules' of multiple choice (Chuck and Kacky) and the complete disregard to the 'rules' (Bob and Andrea). There were also those who did a bit of both (Emily and Louisa). All of you were very creative and so all of you earned participation points. If I had little white ribbons, you all would get one!

Now to the nitty gritty. Louisa, you had some good ideas/alterations but it wasn't enough to win. Ruth Ann isn't marrying MichaeJefferyes, she's marrying me! Emily, you ventured further from the box and earned a few more points. I can almost hear the future pitter patter of little Curl Curl Jones running down the hall..... But alas, it was not enough.

Chuck and Kacky, you played by the rules but within that you thumbed your nose at 'the man.' I'm afraid Kacky that Chuck barely edged you out with his answer of 'A' to a true or false question!

And now on to Bob and Andrea. Your trail blazing, maveric attitude to the multiple choice has racked up a number of points in your favor! Bob: nice work on the solfeggio and neuro-fen answers. Your skillful punning hard at work! But the Winner goes to.......
ANDREA!!! With one broad sweep you've negated the entire quiz process and brought a shread of dignity to the over worked student. Bravo! As you taksolacece in the fact that you DID have enough participation points to pass, know that you worked the system to your best advantage! May you be a beacon to all of us in the quagmire of busywork and academic indifference!

Nice work everyone. It is now the holiday break for us here in OZ and we're celebrating it by going to sleep early! We're both tickled at thresponseses we got on the quiz! Good Night!

~Mike