The Tricky Questions Contest -- Win Free Advertising!
It’s contest time!
As some of you may have noticed, I recently relooked my blog. My new theme came with three ad slots in the right sidebar, which I plan to use for paid advertising. But I figured it would be fun to hold a contest to fill these spots and give you guys a chance to put your blog banner/ad here!
So here is the deal. I’m going to ask you to answer five questions, each one being a little bit tricky, of course.
The first three persons to have all (or most) of the answers correct will get one month ad spot on my blog (each ad will be 100×100 or 125×125).
I’ll also randomly pick a fourth person among the contestants and he/she will get a one month blogroll link with a short blog review, the day the winners will be announced. This blog is a PR4 — it worth it!
The contest runs from February 11th to February 20th, when the winners will be announced. I won’t say a word about whether the answers are correct or not before that date, so keep on playing!
I’m also offering you two wild cards: if you don’t know an answer, just use one of them or both, and I’ll count this answer as correct! These are your wildcards:
- Blog about this contest
- Stumble Upon Correr Es Mi Destino with a short review
Remember: you don’t have to answer correctly to all of the questions. Just get as many right as you can, and make a good use of your wild cards!
The Questions
- Travel: What is a chicken bus?
- General knowledge: when I first came to Canada, I noticed a lot of stores would have an height stick on the front door frame. What are these for?
- Food: what would a typical French person have for breakfast?
- Enigma: when I was in Australia, I noticed some public bathrooms (i.e in Sydney train station) were lit with blue light, like in a disco (ultraviolet). I really wondered why at the time and found the answer a few months later in a book. So, why would there be blue lights in a public bathroom in your opinion?
- Vocabulary: what’s the common point between the words: “toonie”; “double-double” and “zed”?
Good luck and… have fun! If you think this “test” is hard, remember I’m a teacher and feel sorry for my students 
EDIT: I have moderate the comments so that it’s more fair! So far, two people got 4/5 questions correct. Good job! Remember… you still have a chance to get all of the answers right. Alright, I’m going to sleep… I will sort out the comments tomorrow 
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I’m smart…but not THAT smart.
I thumbs upped your blog on stumbleupon though.
As always, a great blog. Always leaving me wowed
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I now present, for the entertainment of visitors and Zhu, the wrong answers:
1. Chickens go to school on the chicken bus. Unlike the metal, yellow type ridden by human children, chicken buses are cardboard or Styrofoam and can be any color from a dull gray to a pastel pink. They usually seat 12 chicks (the short buses seat a half-dozen) and they can be found parked in the dairy section at the supermarket.
2. Canadians have a long-standing antipathy against midgets. The bar is used to help shopkeepers tell the difference between midgets and folks who are simply vertically-challenged. There is no national standard, however, so poor Zhu has yet to see the inside of Filene’s.
3. This varies according to taste. My money says Zhu might go for Edouard Collin.
4. After many decades of adaptation to life in the bush, Aussies still wet their shoes when taking a wee. The ultraviolet light is to help make the stains more noticeable for easy cleaning. (It’s the best I could come up with on short notice.)
5.
Toonie: In America, this is a NYC subway token.
Double-Double: This is when Canadian pr0n tramp Patty Petite struts by, you look … and then, you look again.
Zed: It doesn’t matter. Zed’s dead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Yp2L6c2KM
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You guys are the best! You made me laugh out loud — Ghosty, your answers are hilarious! I choked on my tea though
Sir Jorge, come on, a chicken bus…?
Zed is Zed… I’m still laughing over this one!
1) Former US school buses, loudly decorated, in Central America, often transporting as many barnyard animals as people.
2) So witnesses to a robbery can accurately judge the height of the miscreants.
3) A long coughing fit followed by a couple of cigarettes?
And maybe a bread roll, lump of jam, and a coffee. I think cereal is on the rise as well.
4) Supposedly deters addicts by making it harder to locate a juicy blue vein. Unless they run a marker pen down it beforehand of course.
5) Canadianisms?
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