ALAN BROUGH’S FRIDAY QUIZ
Tonight in Melbourne is the opening night of my new show, a satirical politics quiz called Armchair Pollies.
To commemorate this momentous occasion here is a quiz about firsts.
1. True or false: a woman invented the first ever windscreen wiper?
2. At the London Olympics what male-dominated sport will women compete in for the first time?
a) Sulking.
b) Being ungracious in defeat.
c) Being ungracious in victory.
d) Boxing.
3. Which came first: American women being able to vote or an American woman running for president?
4. True or false: Ada Lovelace – the daughter of poet Lord Byron – was the world’s first computer programmer?
5. The first Olympic women’s swimming gold medal was won in the 100m at the 1912 games by Sarah ‘Fanny’ Durack who was from which country?
a) Antarctica.
b) America.
c) Australia.
d) Equatorial Guinea.
6. What word is missing from this 1918 quote from a US politician, ‘If women could ____________, they’d divorce their husbands. They’d leave their children and maybe turn criminal.’
7. Actress Hedy Lamarr (pictured above) was one of the most glamorous and famous movie stars of the mid-20th Century. She also invented something used by millions of people every day. Was it;
a) The off-the-shoulder toga?
b) Frequency hopping spread spectrum technology?
c) The underwater movie camera?
d) A mousetrap resistant mouse?
8. In which year did a woman first win the Best Director Oscar?
a) 1922.
b) 1978.
c) 1990.
d) 2010.
9. Who became the first person to have 25 million followers in Twitter?
10. In 25 words or less tell me what first is occurring in this picture. (The best answer wins a lovely prize. The prize is not pictured.)
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16 Responses to this article
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Helen August 3, 2012
And an australian woman invented the intermitent windscreen wiper.
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RES August 3, 2012
I’m all set to go to the fancy dress party as Nelly the Elephant. Do you think anyone will recognise me?
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Brendan August 3, 2012
Clearly the Western Australian Liberal polly dressed in drag who has developed a more subtle approach for his seat sniffing hobby.
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Trystyn August 3, 2012
Now when Tony Abbott’s on the news, all I hear is “do do dodo do dodo do do ” thanks to this marvellous Circus Sounds Gas!
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Marnie August 3, 2012
The weight loss device for chocoholics
Your hot breath melts the chocolate and you breathe it back in carrying delicious microscopic choccy droplets. -
AJ August 3, 2012
World’s first oxygen tank and mask invented (by a woman) to arrest a spate of fainting by women wearing too tight corsets.
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Danny Dix August 3, 2012
The lady is actually trialing the very first oral milk expression pump.
This unit not only saved the operator from the tiresome task of untrussing her boozoomery at each feed time, but offered the added advantage of leaving her hands free to text, surf the net or play cribbage…..and the milk storage container was microwave ready.
The oral breast milk expression pump manufacture later blamed the failure of his unit to inspire the lactating public on the tardy workplace practices of several start-up smart phone manufacturers in their failure to invent a phone in a timely fashion, and his parents, who thought his taking biology lessons was a huge and costly waste of time. -
Danny Dix August 3, 2012
An early version of google translator. You strapped this on and speak any language at all, the translator would automatically convert it to gobbltygook..
Brilliant. -
Danny Dix August 3, 2012
One hundred years later and a few more bells and whistles, Google translator still manages to accomplish this.
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Tara N August 3, 2012
This is a filter for flatulence affected air – great in confined spaces.
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Merryl Chantrell August 3, 2012
Early CPAP Machine prototype
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Danny Dix August 4, 2012
Franciase Le intermittent perhaps?
