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‘3, 2, 1’ Raffle
In keeping with the Australian theme of the Return To The Promised Land meeting the raffle prizes were all arranged around the well known quiz show ‘3, 2, 1’ which was hosted by the Australian comic, Ted Rogers. Each winner was given a choice of two cryptic clues for their prize with the object of not winning ‘Dusty Kangaroo’. Test your detective skills and see if you can avoid the booby prize?
(1) Morse Wouldn’t Give A XXXX For This Prize. (2) Wonder What Happens If You Take A Prang Without A ‘P’ And Apply To A Shelia. (3) Something From Famous Aussie Composer’s House Or To Be More Precise If His Office Was Untidy It May Be This? (4) Can You Tell What It Is Yet? This Prize May Help To Add Some Colour. (5) Felines Have Nine Lives. This French One Has A Silent ‘C’, And Instead Of Lives Has Three More But Sounds More Like A Dog. (6) From Abo To Zucchini This Prize Has It All. (7) If You Are Not Pleased With This Prize You Can Always Try Throwing It Away – Or Can You? (8) ‘What ‘The Australia & New Zealand Army Corps’ In Third & Fourth Place Alphabetically … Well Doesn’t That Just Take The …? (9) Maybe This Prize Will Grow Into A Fine Plant, But Then Again It May Not Generically. (10) Backwards You May ‘Need To Phone’ ‘Zero’ To Get Help If The Signature On These ‘Cup & Saucers’ Are Anything To Go By. (11) Size Isn’t Everything With Me Though You May Think I Am A Drongo Who Gets Everywhere In The Heat. Maybe It Is Almost A Crime And You Won’t Jump For Joy. (12) It’s All That’s Left But Both Sides Want It. Got You Stumped?
Answers (1) Cans of Castlemain XXXX larger, (2) A prang is a bump – without a ‘P’ is a bum – and an Australian Shelia with a famous bum is Kylie Minogue so the prize was a Kylie CD, (3) Famous composer was Barrington Pheloung and if untidy his office would be in a state – hence the prize was a bottle of Barrington Estate wine, (4) catch phrase of Rolf Harris combined with colour so it is a painting set, (5) A feline is a cat – a French one is a chat – with a silent ‘C’ yields a hat – three more than 9 is twelve – sounds like a dog is a bark and since bark is made of cork we have an Australian hat with 12 dangling corks, (6) It goes from A to Z and thus must be an Australian dictionary, (7) A prize that will always come back must be a boomerang, (8) Third and fourth place alphabetically is ‘C & D’ or seed – hence the prize is ANZAC seed biscuits, (9) A generic plant that may, or may not grow, could be said to be a Vegemite, (10) Need to phone is to dial – zero is ‘0’ – cup and saucers are crockery – everything backwards yields a crocodile but clue says to get help so prize is a warning crocodile sign, (11) A drongo is something useless – dust gets everywhere in the heat – and if you win this you wont jump for joy as it is a four foot high blow up ‘Dusty kangaroo’ (won by Philip Attwell), (12) Stumps refers to cricket – at the end of the game all that was left were the stumps which if burnt become the ashes which both sides want – yes this was a book about cricket which by sheer luck (Ed. Which had nothing to do with it) was won by Barrington Pheloung (the book having already been signed by all the members present in appreciation of Barrington’s support). | |||||
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