/ 21 December 2007

Strain your brain: Answers

1. The Dream Deferred, The Native Intelligence of Thabo Mbeki and the revised edition of Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC

2. Mark Gevisser, Ronald Suresh Roberts and William Mervyn Gumede

3. A Jaguar

4. John Aitchison

5. Kha Ri Gude — Venda for ‘let us learn”

6. Kaka

7. Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga

8. Alan Johnston9. Thabo Makgoba

10. Njongonkulu Ndungane

11. Madupi

12. Koni Media

13. Billy Modise, Ronnie Mamoepa or Titus Mafolo

14. Former Mozambican leader Joaquim Chissano

15. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

16. Makana Football Association

17. Xhosa chief Makana, the island’s first political prisoner

18. Producer Anant Singh, director Junaid Ahmed

19. Helen Suzman

20. Bryan Habana

21. Audi, the R8

22. Jimi Adesina, Rhodes University professor of sociology

23. Basement

24. Virginia Tech

25. Frene Ginwala

26. King Juan Carlos telling Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez: ‘Why don’t you shut up!”

27. Bok van Blerk

28. Long-eared Jerboa

29. The Tasting Room at Le Quartier Francais

30. Israel’s Six Day War

31. Thembinkosi Philemon Wakashe

32. France’s Nicolas Sarkozy

33. South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki

34. S’bu Ndebele, premier of KwaZulu-Natal

35. Oprah Winfrey

36. India beat Pakistan by five runs

37. Spain

38. The iPhone

39. Madeleine McCann

40. Seventh

41. Liechtenstein

42. They continued charging fees

43. Lewis Hamilton

44. Ian Smith

45. Steve Maclaren

46. Nancy Pelosi

47. We’re Only in it for the Money

48. Western Cape

49. A BMW X5 and a Ford Ka50. Christopher Hitchens

51. God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

52. Maskew Miller Longman and Heinemann

53. Brian Lima

54. Vernie Petersen

55. Steve Fossett

56. Jacques Pauw

57. Nicolas and Cecilia Sarkozy

58. Norman Mailer

59. The Naked and the Dead

60. Helen Mirren in The Queen

61. Zoe’s Ark

62. Eight

63. Unisa

64. A Chevrolet Lumina

65. Billiards

66. Nursing

67. Zulus Bar

68. ‘Apartheid are dead”

69. Al Gore and the IPCCC panel

70. Max Price

71. Njabulo Ndebele

72. The 11th Hour

73. Razbliuto. It is supposed to refer to the feeling one has when love has died

74. Ian Fleming

75. Tripoli, Libya

76. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

77. Robert Kirby

78. Somizi Mhlongo

79. India (22%), China (11%), Pakistan (4%), Nigeria (4%), Indonesia (4%) and Bangladesh (3%)

80. Venezuela

81. Patrick Mynhardt

82. Sir David King

83. After the Party

84. Council of Education Ministers, occupation-specific dispensation, Higher Education South Africa, Southern African Regional Universities Association

85. New Porn

86. Doris Lessing

87. 2012

88. Ambassador to Thailand

89. Winemaker

90. Alice Walker, American author, critic

91. Roughly 90%

92. Enver Surty

93. Home Affairs and Sorted

94. Abalone

95. David Woods, Rhodes University

96. South Korea

97. Executive head of Oprah Winfrey’s school for girls in Henley-on-Klip

98. Betty Suarez in the comedy series Ugly Betty

99. Rendition

100. Al-Qaeda

101. Lady in the Water