Pop Quiz

ARE YOU AS ABSORBENT AS AMADOU OR AS INFO REPELLENT AS JIM JORDAN FACED WITH SOME BASIC SCIENCE? TAKE OUR QUIZ TO SEE IF YOU PICKED UP ANYTHING FROM THE PAGES OF THIS ISSUE

1) What sort of BRAAAP! does the Kalk AP electronic motorbike offer riders (page 18)?

A. The subtle hiss of a wet fly line flying through the air. B. The perineum-shaking chugga-chugga of a dentist riding a chopper. C. None. It’s silent for sneaking up on rhino poachers. D. About the same as a microwave with a bad attitude.

2) What “leaves a salty spray with Brazil nuts and gentle smoke” (page 23)?

A. A romantic tryst with our art director Brendan Body. B. The beach showers after fly fishing off Copacabana. C. Editor-at-large Conrad Botes’s summer cologne. D. The finish of the Arrrrrrrdbeg Committee Exclusive Release Whisky. E. The bespoke range of hand sanitizer at Tintswalo Lapalala.

3) ‘The Bermuda Triangle’ is (page 34)?

A. A mysterious area of the Caribbean where ships and planes go missing. B. A productive kob spot on the inshore reefs of False Bay. C. The latest in pubic art, following on from The Hollywood, The Dorito and the Landing Strip. D. An ancient Arawak hand signal involving putting two L-shaped ‘loser’ signals together for maximum emphasis that the person you are talking to is dumb as all hell.

4) Which of the following species are you unlikely to find at Long Reef (page 60)?

A. Bonefish B. GTs C. Blue Bastards D. Permit E. Chinamen

5) A car parked by the side of the road near a river in New Zealand means (page 45)

A. Someone is taking a bushy (boskak) and it will make the nation’s front page news. B. Someone is smoking meth. C. Someone is catching troot nearby. D. All of the above.

6) According to Andrew Harrison, if the good Lord above were to give the KwaZulu-Natal town of Colenso anything, it would be (page 62)?

A. Africa’s equivalent to the Sistine Chapel. B. A functional municipality. C. A celestial enema. D. Thunderbolts and lightning (very, very frightening). E. Galileo.

Answers: 1. C, 2. D, 3. A&B, 4. A, 5. D, 6. C