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A Thousand Years in a Day is available through ABC shops, ABC Cen tres and bookstores. utz• answers 1. Miles Davis' A Kind Of Blue (1 959). 2. The thumb piano used in African music. 3. Katisha, in The Mik ado, by Gilbert & Sullivan. 4. Anni-Frid Lyngstad; Agnetha Faltskog; Bj orn Ulvaeus; Benny Andersson. 5. Johannes Brahms. 6. Paul Hasluck. 7. In 1624, it was burned down and when rebuilt was called Christiania. In 1925 it regained its old name. 8. a) The Order of St Isabel the Catholic; b) The Order of the Brilliant Star; c) The Legion d'Honneur Grand Croix; (d) Companion of the Order of Australia (AC). 9. Lord Byron was referring to Greece. 10. Trousers and a long-sleeved shirt, with or without jacket, or a safari suit. N ot a dinner suit. You will fi nd 'Territory rig' specifie d in your invitation to a government function in the Northern Territory. 11. The Darwin Club Hotel, similar in some ways to Melbourne's Windsor. 12. The unofficial leader of all the foreign diplomats stationed in a capital city. He or she is always the longest-serving ambassador. 13. The humpback whale: its low-frequency calls are, at l90db, louder than Concorde taking off. 14. A Handful of Dust. 15. Augustine Aloysius. 16. Metonymy. 17. The Long March began in Kiangsi, and finished in Sh ensi. 18. Ataturk. 19. a) Mamie Nixon; b) Marilyn Horne; c) James Earl Jones. 20. a) Figure skating; b) Freestyle skiing (moguls). 21. Robert Lowell, in 'Memories of West Street and Lepke'. 22. a) Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence; b) A Kind Of Loving by Stan Barstow; c) Spycatcher by Peter Wright; d) Catch 22 by Joseph Heller; e) Hard Times by Charles Dickens; f) Call it Sleep by Henry Roth; g) The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. 23. a) The tough, often dead, outermost layer of skin cells; b) The 6-m etre coiled tubing that stores sperm behind the testis. 24. a) collective name for the petals of a fl ower; b) the halo of very hot gas that surrounds the Sun and is visible during solar eclipses. Or a large Cuban cigar, of course, for the extremely politically incorrect. 25. Nobel Physics prizewinners Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. 26. We, at 46 chromosomes, would be way more intelligent than a pea at 14, marginally dumber than a potato at 48, but shamed utterly by the crayfish, clocking in at 200. Fortunately or unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work that way, or perhaps the spuds and crays aren't letting on. 27. Cardinal numbers have to do with quantity ( l , 2, 3 etc.) whereas ordinal numbers (first, second, third etc.) are about order. Funny, that. Nothing to do with cardinals and ordination at all ... 28. Early prin ting (15th century). 29. In 1469: Vasco da Gama and Machiavelli were born; Lippi died; Lorenzo took power. 30. In descending order of perceived status: Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras. 31. Mesopotamia. 32. St Benedict of Nursia (c.480- c.547), thefounder of Western monasticism . 33. Konstan tin Stanislavsky and Lee Strasberg. 34. He was the master gem -cutter chosen to cut the biggest diamond ever found: the Cullinan. 35. Captain Charles 'Chuck' Yeager of the USAF, in October 1947. 36. Just 12 years before, in 1987. 37. Bringing the terms 'junk bonds' and 'insider trading' into general usage. 38. Behaviour unbecoming an evangelist. Bakker drove his poor wife Tammy Faye into terminal mascara addiction. 39. Die. 40. Chicago's O'Hare, at about 2200 aircraft a day. 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