Syndication
Answers to Ian’s Trivialus – 3 March
- St Christopher
- Podcast – a portmanteau of iPod and broadcasting. Podcasting turned anyone with a microphone into a talking head for a global audience.
- c) – 45%, according to a recent Economist poll it is more popular than hip-hop or R&B, but it is still behind Pop.
- Henry Kissinger
- a) – South Korea has the lowest birth rate in the world. Despite financial incentives for married couples to have children, the rate continues to plummet. Unlike other countries in the world, only 2% of births occur outside marriage. Career advancement is a strong pressure on both genders and is one of the factors militating against marriage and childbirth. Plus, the associated educational costs, especially extra-curricular classes (considered de rigueur in South Korea), make childbirth a huge financial burden for young couples.
- Hyundai Motor Company.
- b) – an instalment.
- Kathy Freeman – 400m
- b) – Hungary. Its president, Viktor Orbán, was smarting at criticism of his country's democracy by Sweden and felt disinclined to do any favours for Sweden.
- 10.A farrier is a craftsman who specialises in shoeing horses, a skill that requires not only the ability to shape and fit horseshoes, but also the ability to clean, trim, and shape a horse's hooves.
- 11.a) – Bird's nests.
- 12.A technology company that supplies sophisticated chips primarily to the AI industry (95% market share) as well as to other users. Its market-leading chips, networking data centres, and advanced software has secured its dominant position in the market.
- 13.False – it is actually much faster, 14 times faster in fact.
- 14.South Africa
- 15.Egypt and Syria.
- 16.It is only ever published on the 29th of February every leap year. The first edition was in 1980 and this is the 12th issue. Although it styles itself as anti-politically correct, it has humorous articles in regular newspaper sections such as politics, arts, international affairs, sport, celebrities and puzzles.
- 17.The Brothers Karamazov – the final novel of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- 18.Republic of Korea – Kosovo.
- 19.Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
- 20.T-Birds – Pink Ladies.