The
Midgie
Quiz

With the croquet season almost over for another year, the nights fair drawin' in, and Christmas shopping in full swing in most parts of Midgieland, we are pleased to announce the resumption of the occasional Midgie Quiz, a game for all the family to while away those interminable autumn evenings when there's absolutely nowt on the goggle box.

Score 1 point for each correct answer. Solution at the foot of the page.

1. Which political party, in the section on education on its official website, spells the word curriculum 'ciriculum' – as in 'childs ciriculum'?

2. Which political party sums up its policy on the environment: 'We are pragmatists. Even dogs don't defecate where they eat or sleep'?

3. Which political party defines gun control as 'hitting your target'?

4. Which political party has a candidate for the US senate who is (a) not a well-known Scottish tabloid journalist; (b) was never married to a well-known Scottish newsreader; (c) but is nevertheless called Bob Bird?

5. Which political party's Bob Bird describes the right to keep and bear arms as 'the law of God'?

6. Which political party's Bob Bird counts '15 caribou and numerous black bears' as big game animals he has bagged?

7. Which political party condemns the 'moral, educational and economic decay of the US' and believes that since its supporters hold themselves to a higher standard, they might decide to 'maintain an arm's length from a country in decline'?

8. Which political party wants a referendum on breaking away from the US?

9. Which political party believes that local people 'should have first crack at all the good jobs' and that they should not have to compete with outsiders?

10. Which political party claims the husband of the Republican vice-presidential candidate as a former member?

11. To which political party did the Republican vice-presidential candidate send a welcoming DVD to its convention earlier this year?

Solution

The answer to all 11 questions is: the Alaska Independence Party

Utter irrelevances

The Midgie's question of the week: Why are generalisations always sweeping?

The Midgie's other question of the week: Why did Bicep Murray's defeat in the US Open merit first item in Radio 2's national news on the morning after Federer thrashed him? Could this sort of non-news be confined in future to the Scottish digital channel being set up by the extremely serious, rather ridiculous Scottish Broadcasting Commission at a cost to the public purse of a mere £75million – cheap at the price for all those repeats of the White Heather Club?