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New Year quiz answers

THERE was no correct entry in our Giant New Year Quiz. Four entrants correctly answered 93 questions. Those four entries were placed in a draw, and the lucky winner is Andrew Creery of Jardine's Lookout. Mr Creery wins a night for two people in a harbour view room, plus breakfast, in the luxury Island Shangri-La Hotel.

The answers to the quiz were: 1. Auld Lang Syne 2. Los Angeles 3. Cruz 4. Shekkipmei 5. Lawrence Wadey 6. Anson Chan Fang On-sang (Anson Chan accepted) 7. Sydney 8. North American Free Trade Association 9. Hebron 10. Sarajevo 11. Pelican 12. Chin Chi-ming 13. Anna Wu Hung-yuk (Anna Wu or Wu Hung-yuk accepted) 14. Daya Bay 15. Benetton 16. Hobbes 17. New Zealand 18. Warran Christopher 19. Imelda Marcos 20. Jean-Michel Jarre 21. The Piano 22. Laguna City 23. Peter Gabriel 24. Sir Hamish Macleod 25. Hong Kong Polytechnic 26. Amseterdam 27. Silvio Berlusconi 28. Rwanda and Burundi 29. Richard Nixon 30. Sun Yee On 31. Lord Caithness 32. The Heung Yee Kuk 33. Whisky 34. Nelson Mandela 35. Hai Ho-tak 36. Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson 37. Most Favoured Nation 38. Margaret Beckett 39. Eastern 40. Planet Hollywood 41. Indonesia 42. South Pacific 43. Whitehead 44. O J Simpson 45. Independent Commission Against Corruption 46. Bob Thaves 47. The D-Day invasion 48. James Garner 49. Cholera 50. Kim Il-sung 51. Brazil 52. Spring 53. Pearl 54. Kennedy Town (Kwun Lung Lau estate) 55. King Hussein 56.

Vladivostok 57. Carlos the Jackal 58. Pierce Brosnan 59. Muhammed Ali 60. The Irish Republican Army (or the IRA) 61. Eddie Hui Ki-on (Eddie Hui or Hui Ki-on accepted) 62. Woodstock 63. Lau Shan-ching 64. Arnold Schwarzenegger 65. Nathan Road 66. Andre Agassi 67. Pneumonic 68. Estonia 69. Cathay Pacific 70. Dr Rose Ong 71. Douglas Hurd 72. Tuen Mun 73. Hiroshima 74. Jonathan Dimbleby 75. Korean 76. Mao Zedong 77. Jean-Bertrand Aristide 78. Grozny 79. Maputo 80. Chelsea 81. Chek Lap Kok 82. Alzheimer's Disease 83. Helmut Kohl 84. David Dalton 85. Norway 86. Chiang Kai Shek [* answer should be Chiang Ching-kuo not Chiang Kai Shek] 87. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga 88. Tauranga 89. Lau Chin-shek 90. Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres 91. State Taj 92. Jeffrey Dahmer 93. Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere 94. Xinjiang 95. One horse open sleigh 96. Orbis (or Project Orbis) 97. Algeria [*answer should be France not Algeria] 98. Meryl Streep 99. Mike Atherton 100. Tet

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