This was really hard and there was a small number of
entries. Here is the graphic again, a bit smaller, but I won’t
repeat the clues.
The solution to the Gone with the Wind clue was as follows,
but only Richard Allen was led to the correct solution.
(Actually I think I might have put in the SR there that had its
bill open, but I won’t do it again.) Answers are below. The thrice-repeated
common adjective was ‘Australian’ and the double was ‘Painted’.
It was a Painted Honeyeater that appeared twice. 2, 4, 16b, 26, 30
contain all the vowels. The ‘National Pastime’ was ‘Australian
Hobby’; inexplicably, nobody got this. (Steve Holliday got a
half point for the ingenious ‘Welcome Swallow’).
1 Satin Bowerbird
2 Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
3 Australian Wood Duck
4 Painted Button-quail
5 Grey Fantail
6 Common Koel
7 Great Egret
8 Eastern Yellow Robin
9 Scarlet Robin
10 White-throated Treecreeper
11 House Sparrow
12 Mistletoebird
13 Crimson Chat
14 White-browed Scrubwren
15 Red-browed Finch
16 Hardhead & Australasian Shoveler (one point each)
17 Painted Honeyeater
18 Australian Hobby
19 New Holland
Honeyeater
20 White-browed Babbler
21 Striated Pardalote
22 Spotless Crake
23 Musk Duck
24 Painted Honeyeater
25 Regent Honeyeater
26 White-plumed Honeyeater
27 White-winged Chough
28 Varied Sittella
29 Pied (doesn’t rhyme with ‘footy’) Oystercatcher
30 Turquoise Parrot
31 Australian Raven
Everyone got 6 and 12, but only Anthony Overs got 30.
Steve and Richard tied for most correct on 19, and Richard edged ahead with
more correct nouns. There were 5 that nobody got, and here they are, to
show how easy it was:
There were more entries for the somewhat easier Quiz 5,
answers to which tomorrow.
