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I defy anyone to achieve a perfect score in my Olympic torch true-or-false quiz.

(Illustration by Dave Follett)

Posted by Tim B. on 04/18/2008 at 12:52 PM

  1. Stavros the Extra Crispy.

    Love it. =^D

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 18 at 01:25 PM • permalink

  2. I’m guessing a surprising number of the more absurd ones are actually true.

    Except for the unfortunate Stavros, of course…

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 18 at 01:27 PM • permalink

  3. Hmm, geek that I am, I actually tried to answer them all (with no Google help) - 38 out of 45. I got a bit scared while checking the answers after I had the first 21 all correct…

    Posted by PW on 2008 04 18 at 01:28 PM • permalink

  4. Well, the Paralympics torch answer (Weber kettle and an SUV) is true here in New Jersey. 

    44 out of 45

    Posted by SSG Pooh on 2008 04 18 at 01:51 PM • permalink

  5. 32. Mysteriously, the hotel room occupied by the torch in Las Vegas in 2004 ran up a $15,000 room service bill for hookers and champagne.

    Not to mention a $500 fee for putting it up in a non-smoking room.

    Posted by paco on 2008 04 18 at 01:53 PM • permalink

  6. Damn! I had all 45 down as True.

    Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2008 04 18 at 02:04 PM • permalink

  7. Well they had to put the torch somewhere, couldn’t just leave it on the floor…So they got hookers.

    Posted by El Cid on 2008 04 18 at 02:11 PM • permalink

  8. A pop quiz—on a Friday!  Damn!

    Posted by Tai Chi Wawa on 2008 04 18 at 03:28 PM • permalink

  9. I can’t tell you how happy it makes me that #8 is true.

    Posted by tim maguire on 2008 04 18 at 05:18 PM • permalink

  10. Nicky and I got 44 out of 45 does that make us silver medallists?

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2008 04 18 at 05:34 PM • permalink

  11. I can’t begin to determine which are true and which are false…. I’d be guessing. But I imagine that some of the most ridiculous are true.

    I have a true story about the Olympic Flame in Australia.

    In 2000 MDFD* thought that it would be a good, historic thing for her 16 y.o. son to see the Olympic Torch Relay in Toowoomba.

    She set off in the rain that evening from her home in the Lockyer Valley in her little Lancer.

    The main road up the range was blocked by an accident and, not wanting to miss the event, she decided to take the back road.

    Unfortunately, she didn’t know the back road.

    Her “back road” took her up a power line maintenance track which got narrower and more washed out as she went further, but being a determined woman, she persisted with the quest.

    She bogged her car, tripped while trying to push it out of the bog and fell front-first onto the muddy, clay, dirt road, her son was nearly died (killed by her for laughing), and they had to hike out some distance before she could call a friend in an SUV, who also got bogged.

    She’s been over the Olympics for some years.

    Glad I didn’t go with her.

    PS. 30 is false. Kevan has NEVER had a fire under him.


    *my Dear Friend D

    Posted by kae on 2008 04 18 at 05:42 PM • permalink

  12. I went for true for all of them. It made the Olympics seem more interesting.

    Posted by Contrail on 2008 04 18 at 07:28 PM • permalink

  13. Tim,
    If this isn’t one of the most linked posts you’ve ever done, it will only show the paucity of thought thruout the blogosphere.
    See my previous castigations of InstaEgo!

    Posted by mikdaley on 2008 04 18 at 07:56 PM • permalink

  14. #9
    Yeah, no.s 8 & 22 (true enough) shows the legendary Aussie larrikin spirirt, hehe; pin-pricking the pompous’ balloon.

    No. 8
    The Olympic torch, brought to you by Bonds’ Y-fronts ...

    Posted by egg_ on 2008 04 18 at 08:46 PM • permalink

  15. Most answer are F to me. Now I will look.
    Truth is stranger than fiction.

    Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 18 at 09:17 PM • permalink

  16. I got them all correct (Ah, the joys of the honor system!)

    Posted by paco on 2008 04 18 at 09:43 PM • permalink

  17. #11 Hilarious.

    Great story and still laughing. I’m assuming the back road she missed was the one through Murphy’s Creek.

    Posted by mehaul on 2008 04 18 at 09:43 PM • permalink

  18. #17
    Was much funnier when she told it!
    Murphy’s Creek, Flagstone Creek, something like that. I reread #11 and realised that I left out that there was no mobile/cell phone reception so she had to walk out some distance to call a friend.

    I’m still glad I didn’t go with her.

    Posted by kae on 2008 04 18 at 10:17 PM • permalink

  19. You forget to tell me what to drink for every one I got right!  Do I have to do everything for this quiz or what?!?

    Posted by Adriane on 2008 04 18 at 10:17 PM • permalink

  20. What a ton of fun. Me 32, the madam 31. Another hot contested victory. I’ve been sent to do the dishes.

    Posted by mehaul on 2008 04 18 at 10:38 PM • permalink

  21. The neighbourhood gathered at the appropriate
    place at the appropriate time in our Sydney suburb in 2000, the flame passed by and then we all went home. I was underwhelmed.

    Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 18 at 11:23 PM • permalink

  22. Boeing does not make the A330.

    Posted by gregbash on 2008 04 19 at 06:15 PM • permalink

  23. No idea what ‘arugula justice’ means, but I do know that at a local PC ‘country/green’ fair the carrots are $7 a kilo.  You can get them normally for $1.

    Posted by Barrie on 2008 04 19 at 09:28 PM • permalink

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