/ 22 December 1995

Test your wits on the M G quiz

1 Which Constitutional Court judge has not served in the court since taking office in

2 Whom did air charter company Foster-Webb sue for R50 000 in November over the non-payment of a two-year-old bill?

3 At which South African university was a lecture interrupted by a student falling through the ceiling?

4 To which visiting head of state did the Namaqualand Civic Association appeal for help with a land claim?

5 Who was the South African responsible for selling three countries’ rugby test match television rights to media baron Rupert

6 Which company’s proposed radio advertisement was banned by the SABC on the grounds of

7 Which former State Security Council member is to head one of the SABC’s three restructured television channels?

8 Former SADF officer Hendrick Theunissen laid charges of sodomy and assault, and was then himself charged with bestiality. Name one of the two charges on which he was eventually

9 On several occasions this year, Prince Bhekimpi of Swaziland complained of unwelcome visitors. Who were the visitors?

10 Previously unemployed squatter-camp resident Meshack Mbambalala finally found himself a job in November. What was the job?

11 Whose genitals prompted a letter to the French embassy?

12 What tragic events drew attention to the North West province village of Lebotlwane earlier this year?

13 Which South African claimed to be doing “a little esoteric research” and on what subject?

14 Whose death left Helena Dolny a widow?

15 Who ousted Lech Walesa in Poland’s November

16 Who employed hundreds of homeless South Africans for a day to help with a product

17 In which country did a political crisis erupt after one politician claimed another politician had been rude to him on a plane journey — and who were the politicians?

18 Which party fielded a candidate called Hitler in the local elections?

19 In which Eastern Cape town did a maid and her madam stand against each other in the local elections?

20 Who won a seat in the local elections after being defeated as a party leader in last year’s national elections — and which parties were involved?

21 Which Asian religious leader said he was coming to South Africa then didn’t — and which Asian religious leader did indeed

22 How many people could be hanged at one time on the gallows at Pretoria Central Prison, which were decommissioned this year?

23 Which Durban entrepreneur used film footage of Nelson Mandela to help market his product?

24 Which Nobel Prize-winning author appealed to Nelson Mandela to take a stand against Nigeria’s military regime a month before the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa?

25 Arrange the following in the correct order: Constantin, Wilkau, Peter, und, Lieres, Klaus, von, Otto, and give the two reasons why he was in the news this year.

26 Name the authors of The Liberal Slideaway; A Soldier’s Way; Goodbye Bafana; A Life.

27 What is Colonel Kobus “Donker” Jonker’s job in the South African Police Services?

28 What word got Mark Fuhrman into trouble?

29 Which attorney general faced a barrage of questions from MPs in October?

30 Which British poet spent time in Pretoria Central Prison?

31 Who recently succeeded Ali Hassan Mwinyi as president of Tanzania?

32 Where were women told to take off their trousers before being served?

33 Which member of the government was appointed twice to the same position during

34 Which magazine reguarly publishes pictures of its editor in the nude?

35 The announcement that a certain South African was to be appointed as an ambassador prompted an outcry in the country where he was to serve. Who was the appointee, and what was the country?

36 What exchange control mechanism was scrapped in March this year?

37 Which company bailed out the African Bank?

38 Who took on hamburger chain MacDonalds in a legal battle over copyrights — and won?

39 Which government department dabbled with the Deeble plan?

40 Which South African celebrity checked into drug rehab after her lover was found dead of an overdose?

41 Who became the world’s most famous prostitute this year, and who was her most famous client?

42 Who was stopped by police for driving without a licence plate and ended up being charged with the worst terrorist attack ever to take place in the United States?

43 What item of clothing has become the trademark of Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Million Man March in Washington in October?

44 Whose body did they try to find 28 years after his death?

45 Which South African athlete became the world’s youngest ever drugs cheat in 1995?

46 How many balls did English cricketer Michael Atherton face in his legendary innings against South Africa?

47 Which South African cricketer is affectionately known as “Gogga”?

48 From what country is this year’s European Footballer of the year, George Weah?

49 Which footballer teamed up with Radio Metro DJ Bob Mabena to record a rap/disco CD this

50 An apparent game of soccer, held on the Market Precinct parking lot on February 25, was in fact what?

51 In which film do two small-time gangsters discuss the sexual properties of the foot

52 Which pop star spent most of the year with the word “Slave” scrawled across one cheek?

53 What did artists Christo and Jean-Claude Javacheff wrap in June this year?

54 Which film won six out of 18 Academy Awards in March this year?

55 Which South African author was on the jury at the Cannes Film Festival this year?

56 Besides Shosholoza, what number did street kids perform most often at this year’s Grahamstown Arts Festival?

57 What film became known as Kevin’s Gate when it cost its makers a record $200-million?

58 Who represented South Africa at London’s Africa95 concert?

59 Which South African artist posed the question: “But isi tart?” on the Johannesburg Biennale publicity posters?

60 When did Zonker, JJ and BD first appear in

Who said the following?

61 “You know why it’s so hot? Someone forgot to close the gate when they let in Slovo.”

62 “For the first time in my life I can afford to go to the hairdresser twice a week if I wanted to. But of course I don’t have time for

63 “I apologise to God. I don’t see why I need to apologise to Bishop Tutu.”

64 “I would do anything my mother-in-law said, as long as it was for a good cause.” (And who was the mother-in-law?)

65 “I appreciate what the international community is doing now, but I only wish they had done it sooner.”

66 “They are worse than pigs and dogs” (and what was he referring to?)

67 “Allan Boesak is one of the most gifted young men in the country. He deserves a very high diplomatic post.”

68 “I think I was made of revolutionary material. God must have known what I was going to go through, so he gave me a special skin.”

69 “Neo-Thatcherite palookas who would gladly privatise God” (and who was being referred

70 “You must excuse our SAfm accents.”

M&G quiz D the answers

1 Judge Richard Goldstone

2 Winnie Mandela

3 Vista University (Soweto campus)

4 Queen Elizabeth II

5 Louis Luyt

6 The Mail & Guardian

7 Louis Raubenheimer

8 Perjury / Defeating the ends of justice

9 Ghosts

10 Mayor of Ventersdorp

11 Saartjie Baartman

12 A succession of teenage suicides

13 Charles van Onselen — William Makgoba

14 Joe Slovo

15 Aleksander Kwasniewski

16 Microsoft, for the launch of Windows 95

17 United States — Newt Gingrich — Bill

18 The PAC (Hitler Mapeni, Hillbrow)

19 Morgan Bay

20 Frances Kendall, formerly of the Federal Party, now of the DP

21 The Dalai Lama — Sun Yung Moon

22 Seven

23 Anant Singh, producer of Cry, The Beloved

24 Wole Soyinka

25 Klaus Peter Constantin Otto von Lieres und Wilkau — he resigned as Witwatersrand attorney general, and took on the defence of IFP members in the Magnus Malan trial

26 Jill Wentzel; Colin Powell: James Gregory; Mamphela Ramphele

27 Head of the Occult-related Crime Unit

28 Nigger

29 Tim McNally of KwaZulu-Natal

30 Linton Kwesi Johnson

31 William Mkapa

32 A government office in Manzini, Swaziland

33 Brigitte Mabandla, Deputy Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology

34 Asian Babes, edited by Satinder Kalair

35 Tom Langley — Portugal

36 The Financial Rand

37 New Africa Investments Ltd

38 George Sombonos

39 The Department of Health

40 Brenda Fassie

41 Divine Brown — Hugh Grant

42 Timothy McVeigh, chief suspect in the Oklahoma bombing

43 Bow tie

44 Che Guevara’s

45 Lisa de Villiers

46 492

47 Paul Adams

48 Liberia (but he plays for Italy’s AC

49 Doctor Khumalo of Kaiser Chiefs

50 A work of art by Phillipe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija (for the Johannesburg

51 Pulp Fiction (the actors are John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson)

52 The Artist Formerly Known as Prince

53 The Reichstag in Berlin

54 Forrest Gump

55 Nadine Gordimer

56 The hakka

57 Waterworld

58 Lucky Dube

59 Chickenman Mkhize

60 Twenty-five years ago

61 “Superspy” Craig Williamson

62 Riani de Wet, sometime MEC for public media in the North West

63 General Tienie Groenewald

64 Prince Musi Dhlamini — Winnie Mandela

65 Hauwa Wiwa, widow of Ken Saro-Wiwa

66 Robert Mugabe on gays and lesbians

67 Nelson Mandela

68 Winnie Mandela

69 Kader Asmal — the Democratic Party

70 Zwelakhe Sisulu