Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

Monday, August 23, 2010

The Quiz

1. Are you a private person, or a bit of an open book?
2. How much money would it take to get you to shave your head?
3. Your longest hospital stay
4. A reality show you'd like to go on
5. If you could be the best in the world at something, what would it be?

21 comments:

Ben McLaughlin said...

1. Are you a private person, or a bit of an open book?
2. How much money would it take to get you to shave your head?
3. Your longest hospital stay
4. A reality show you'd like to go on
5. If you could be the best in the world at something, what would it be?

KIM said...

1. open book
2. wouldn't do it for money!!!
3. in memory, overnight, though i think maybe longer when i was 2 and had bronchitis
4. none
5. travel writing (sorry, bill bryson!)

Pedro said...

1. Open book, baby. have a read!
2. 4c
3. 3 days
4. The one where you have to run and jump and climb and land in mud and get sprayed with water and stuff...Whats that one called?
5. A dad.

Simone R. said...

1. open book with really big writing and pictures.
2. $50,000
3. 5 days. baby #1.
4. None. Though blogging is a bit like a reality tv show, isn't it?
5. songwriting.

Anonymous said...

1. Graphic novel.
2. Enough to buy one of those pretty Apple computers with the huge monitors.
3. Probably when I was born. Mums and babies stayed there for a week or so back in the dark ages.
4. Pastor-Chef. Though Alistair B and Nathan C would cane me. Probably the one where everyone cooks a dinner party for each other.
5. Being wise.

Alistair Bain said...

1. Open Book. Too open. The Spine has cracked.
2. Enough to pay off my mortgage.
3. A week after I was born. Back in the old days.
4. I couldn't do it. No-one would ever talk to me again.
5. Sri Lankan Curries.

Ben McLaughlin said...

1. I love the idea of being the cool, private 'enigma' guy, but sadly I spill my guts at the drop of a hat.
2. $50
3. Never stayed in hospy, so probably when I was born
4. Australian Idol and Survivor
5. drawing/writing a newspaper comic strip

Amy said...

1. Private
2. Donate enough to charity maybe
3. However long a baby stayed in hospital back in the day.
4. Does Grand Designs count as a reality show? I'd like to build a house with some of those budgets...
5.Hmm. Best at using the power of words...

Steve said...

Definitely pirate; $3:27; 8 days of lovely drugs, sponge baths and grey food; "Celebrity Blow your Tits off" (thank you Derek and Clive); pirate.

Ruth said...

1. I describe myself as an introverted extrovert... so I'd say I'm a pretty open book, but not with total strangers.

2. I wouldn't do it.

3. When 'E' was born and everything went wrong, I was in hospital for about 2 weeks - but two different hospitals.

4. Are you kidding me? There is no 'reality show' I'd like to go on - cause they are so contrived there is very little reality about them.

5. I don't know about best in the whole world, but I'd like to be better at knowing and living God's word.

Ruth said...

Ben - I don't know about your survivor skills - but you have a totally awesome voice, so I could see the Australian Idol one.... if you made an album, I know we'd buy it.

Wendy said...

1. Open book
2. Um. Lots.
3. 20 days in a Japanese hospital. 10 days before a caesarean and 10 days afterwards. Japanese are somewhat pedantic and have long hospital stays generally speaking.
4. None.
5. Hmmm, a discipler.

maso said...

1. Private (except on blog quizes of course)
2. $1000
3. Two weeks ... but I went back *every* day for the 6 months after that as an outpatient
4. I'd like to do a lap in the moderately priced car on Top Gear I reckon ... if that doesn't count, then the Amazing Race
5. surfing

Georgina said...

1. I'm so open half the pages are falling out.
2. $100? I'm going to do it in a few years for charity when I decide to stop dye-ing my hair (it's about 50% grey atm).
3. 6 days? When I was 18.
4. Survivor or the Amazing Race.
5. Singing, or maybe talking to animals :P

Nathan said...

1. Open book. With pictures. (saw Simone's answer after I wrote this)
2. I pledge here, and now, to shave my head for $20.
3. I had a hernia operation when I was really little - I don't know how long I was in hospital for.
4. Any gameshow. Any particularly trivial gameshow. Antiques roadshow. With something that's either of no value or a clear fraud.
5. Stand up comedy.

Chris L said...

1. an open book
2. well my normal haircut goes close and costs nothing so i'm cheap
3. o'night tonsilightis
4. gladiators
5. i do admire the mastery of the virtuoso muso.

Andrew Richardson said...

1. Private.
2. Ask Simone.
3. One night - broken back.
4. Survivor.
5. Incisive pastoral conversations.

Beth said...

1. Private about some things, open book about others.
2. I'd do it for $1000
3. 1 week...gall bladder problems. I couldn't eat, so I was living off of IV.
4. A cooking one would be awesome!!!
5. The best at just being me.

Beth said...

1. Private about some things, open book about others.
2. I'd do it for $1000
3. 1 week...gall bladder problems. I couldn't eat, so I was living off of IV.
4. A cooking one would be awesome!!!
5. The best at just being me.

Ben McLaughlin said...

Kim- Yeah, that'd be a good thing to be good at, I agree.

Pedro- Wipeout. Yeah, I'd love a go at that. But not when the cameras were rolling preferably.

Simone- That's a fair bit of ding for a haircut! Just lay low for three weeks and you've got a hip Mia Farrow going on.

Gary-Heh! Pastor Chef, I like it.

Al-I might have to pick your brains some time about Sri Lankan curries. I try hard with my curries, but I feel there's a flavour hit that's missing.

Amy-Yeah, that would be awesome to build a house with a sweet budget like that. I'd have an attic thad led up to a planetarium..

Steve-AAAAAAaaarh!

Ruth-Introverted extrovert, I like it. Maybe I'm an extroverted introvert.ps- thanks for saying that:)recording is still on my to-do list.

Wendy-Wow, 20 days. 10 days before is pretty crazy..

Maso-Every day for 6 mnths? Far out, that must have been pretty full on.

Georgina-Hm, I guess that counts as a vague ferret reference..

That's a good way to transition from dye to grey, just cut it all off and start again! I like it.

Nathan-I'll put in ten bucks if you do. You'd have to document it on yr blog.

Chris-Gladiators! Sweet, me too. I'd call myself The Carnage, or something awesome like that.

Andrew-Is that the skiing broken back? Is it healing okay? Hope it is.

Beth-Yuck, that sounds like a rough week.

Laetitia :-) said...

1. Are you a private person, or a bit of an open book? - Probably more open than I like to think I am.
2. How much money would it take to get you to shave your head? - Not all that much - been there, done that; once for fun, once for charity.
3. Your longest hospital stay - probably when I was born.
4. A reality show you'd like to go on - a home make-over show; now I just need a home to be made over. :-)
5. If you could be the best in the world at something, what would it be? - saxophonist?