Well, it's been another fun year for the Monday Quiz. Some new folks have come to try their hands. Some old folks have moved on to other things (ie, were totally dominated and stretched by the awesomeness that is weekly quizzing, that they needed to go and have a little lie down).
But for you stalwarts battling on Monday to Monday, here's one last biggie for the year. Take your time. Do some stretches. And begin. Your time starts..
NOW.
1. Favourite album, this year (NOTE- doesn't have to have been made this year, just what your fav. was. Same goes with books, movies etc.)
2. Favourite song, this year
3. Favourite movie, this year
4. Favourite TV show, this year
5. Favourite book, this year
6. A global phenomenon you'd like to see not carried into the next decade
7. Most annoying word/saying of the year
8. Biggest eye-roll inducer of the year
9. Over-exposed celeb of the year
10. Interesting world event
11. Highlight of your year
12. Lowlight of your year
13. Something you're proud of achieving this year
14. A disappointment
15. Something you'd change if you had the chance again
16. Describe your year in a sentence or two, bare bones.
17. A way that you are different now than you were in January
18. A way you'd like to be different by next December
19. A hope for next year
20. A resolution
But for you stalwarts battling on Monday to Monday, here's one last biggie for the year. Take your time. Do some stretches. And begin. Your time starts..
NOW.
1. Favourite album, this year (NOTE- doesn't have to have been made this year, just what your fav. was. Same goes with books, movies etc.)
2. Favourite song, this year
3. Favourite movie, this year
4. Favourite TV show, this year
5. Favourite book, this year
6. A global phenomenon you'd like to see not carried into the next decade
7. Most annoying word/saying of the year
8. Biggest eye-roll inducer of the year
9. Over-exposed celeb of the year
10. Interesting world event
11. Highlight of your year
12. Lowlight of your year
13. Something you're proud of achieving this year
14. A disappointment
15. Something you'd change if you had the chance again
16. Describe your year in a sentence or two, bare bones.
17. A way that you are different now than you were in January
18. A way you'd like to be different by next December
19. A hope for next year
20. A resolution
15 comments:
1. Favourite album, this year (NOTE- doesn't have to have been made this year, just what your fav. was. Same goes with books, movies etc.)
2. Favourite song, this year
3. Favourite movie, this year
4. Favourite TV show, this year
5. Favourite book, this year
6. A global phenomenon you'd like to see not carried into the next decade
7. Most annoying word/saying of the year
8. Biggest eye-roll inducer of the year
9. Over-exposed celeb of the year
10. Interesting world event
11. Highlight of your year
12. Lowlight of your year
13. Something you're proud of achieving this year
14. A disappointment
15. Something you'd change if you had the chance again
16. Describe your year in a sentence or two, bare bones.
17. A way that you are different now than you were in January
18. A way you'd like to be different by next December
19. A hope for next year
20. A resolution
1. A three way tie between Whitley - Go Forth Find Mammoth, Angus and Julia Stone's Down the Way and Mumford and Sons Sigh No More.
2. Whitley's Head First Down
3. Possibly Inception. I think it's the only one I've seen at the cinema. But Chuck Norris's Invasion USA was pretty good.
4. Modern Family and Spooks.
5. Augustine's On Christian Teaching/On Christian Doctrine (it has a variable title which is cool in itself).
6. Isn't the next decade in 2020? Justin Bieber.
7. Moving Forward.
8. Julia Gillard's accent.
9. Justin Bieber.
10. Wikileaks saga - not the leaks so much as all the politics of information it has triggered.
11. College (with my wife). Has been amazing. But winning the Grand Final in Div 2 Baptist League Soccer, and being player of the final, was pretty awesome. You don't get two medallions for college. This is the question where we're supposed to brag, right?
12. The associated stress. I've never been stressed before.
13. My marks at college were more than satisfactory. And I was quite proud of my essays.
14. Having to listen to Julia Gillard.
15. See 14. I don't really care which party is in power. I'd just like our nation's leader not to sound like a character in Kath and Kim.
16. Changed jobs, cities, churches, and taken up Bible College. Stressful (according to the list of "most stressful things you can do).
17. See above and pick one. I'd say my knowledge of the background to the Bible is better rounded, which means my knowledge of the Bible feels more robust. That has been fun.
18. I'd like that process to continue, ideally. But I think I'd like to be better at loving people.
19. That 18 happens.
20. Do more quizes. Thanks for your quizmastering Ben.
1. Forget and not slow down - Relient K.
2. If you believe me (FaNSD) - Relient K.
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 - amazing and it basically stuck to the book
4. Loved the ending of The Bill and the farewell/look back show. Masterchef as well (don't hate me for it).
5. Loving the Book Thief at the mo but haven't finished it yet.
6. Global warming and terrorism
7. Totes.
8. The Oprah juggernaut in Australia.
9. Oprah, Warnie, Tiger Woods.
10. Dehli Commonwealth Games
11. Finishing my Library course at TAFE
12. Inability to find a job.
13. Finishing my course.
14. Not finding a job.
15. Someone giving me a job.
16. The first half was completing my course. The second half was unsuccesfully looking for work.
17. I have completed my course and am eligible to graduate with distinction.
18. I'd like to have a job.
19. That I'd find a job.
20. Be more patient with other people.
1. Florence and the Machine - Lungs, Mumford and Sons - Sigh no more.
2. Something by Glee, because it's fun to sing.
3. Prob Inception. Or 500 Days of Summer.
4. Doctor Who / Sherlock.
5. Too hard. Home by Bill Bryson. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. The Midnight Mayor by Kate Griffin. Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde.
6. Oprah?
7. All election slogans.
8. Election slogans. Oprah. Bieber.
9. See above.
10. Wikileaks. It's fascinating.
11. 2 published interviews, meeting Neil Gaiman (!!!)
12. Black dogginess.
13. 2 published articles. Getting help for black dogginess.
14. Not learning to drive yet.
15. Learn to drive when 17!
16. Challenging. Difficult. Scary. Rewarding. Hopeful.
17. Less anxious.
18. Even less anxious.
19. Work becoming a positive place.
20. Leave work if it doesn't become a positive place. Take more chances.
I'm going to do the second half of your quiz.
11. Writer's Workshop - a week in Hong Kong.
12. Being told that our support as missionaries is too low and if it doesn't increase then we'll have to do an early home assignment in 2012.
13. Getting back in to Occupational Therapy.
14. That our hard work visiting churches during the 12 months we spent in Australia hasn't produced a visible difference in our support.
15.
16. First half, deputising in Australia. Second half, back in Japan as missionaries.
17. I'm thinner (a little bit).
18. I'd like to be more settled in my new roles here in Tokyo (magazine associate editor, Occupational Therapist).
19. Our financial support would rise.
20. To spend more time pondering the Word.
1. Sorry Ben. The Glee albums!
2. Poker Face, done by Lea Michele and Idina Menzel, on Glee
3. The Social Network
4. Well, you're clearly already going to know that one, based on answer 1 and 2!
5. Malcolm Gladwell's books - probably Blink was my favourite.
6. Parents playing on iPhones instead of interacting with their kids.
7. Can't think of one!
8. That one's not for sharing
9. Kyle Sandilands ugh
10. Oil spill in Florida
11. Highlight: Going to Vanuatu for a week's holiday with my sister.
12. Suicide of my cousin in March
13. Proud of getting through work this year
14. Disappointing that I haven't lost weight.
15. Oh, again, not for public!
16. Tough start, got better from May, ending really well.
17. Lot more experienced in SCUBA diving.
18. Thinner!
19. I hope that both my sister (who's having stomach banding surgery) and me have lost significant weight by next year.
20. Don't give up trying to lose weight.
1. Hunters and Collectors "Natural Selection"
2. "If you don't know me by now" by Simply Red
3. Flight of the Navigator. It's on DVD now!
4. "Law and Order"
5. "Jasper Jones" by Craig Silver
6. Sarah Palin
7. "You're all going to Australia"
8. See either 6 or 7.
9. Lady Gaga
10. iPad launch
11. USA/Canada trip ... Driving a Dodge Charger through California and Nevada ... did route 66! The Rocky Mountains ... amazing.
12. I never really like Winter much
13. I swam across the Colorado River (and back again) ... and kicked a few goals at work too.
14. Las Vegas ... what a horrible place ... I ended up just hanging out at the IHOP
15. I'd spend less time in Las Vegas
16. Quietly happy about some successes at work; had a blast in the USA and Canada; saw God doing some cool things in people's lives (incl. mine); and got in plenty of trips to the coast for a surf with good mates.
17. I am ever so slightly better at surfing.
18. More fit ... and better at surfing.
19. Good surf ... and some mates to come to know Jesus.
20. Pray more and surf more.
Thanks for all the Qs Benno.
1. Mix CD my brother made me
2. Untouched
3. Knight and Day
4. House
5. The Time Traveler's Wife
6. The inability for anyone walking in front of me in a city to walk quickly
7. wiki
8. Christians leaving parties at midnight
9. Justin Bieber
10. Royal engagement!
11. Definitely classified.
12. Also definitely classified.
13. Writing 50K words in November!
14. Australians ate my gingerbread house!
15. Put forth a better attempt to purchase that second Arabian costume I wanted
16. Rescue; recovery; drift; crisis; rescue; recovering; drift; crisis; rescue; recovering.
17. Maturer and completer.
18. Less mature and complete!
19. Um, that a nice man from Harper-Collins shows up knocking on my door ...
20. Yeah, about that book ...
1.'Teen Dream' by Beach House
2.'Walk In The Park' by Beach House, 'Symbolic' by Death.
3.Hmm, not sure. Maybe Kick Ass. Or Toy Story 3
4.How I Met Your Mother, Qi
5.It's been a really bad reading year, I've barely made it thru anything.. Maybe Jane Eyre, but I'm nowhere near finished yet.
6. Twitter
7. Beiber
8. All those loser celebrity blokes with 'mistresses'
9. Warnie, Kim Kardashian, Snooki, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber
10. The trapped Chillien miners
11. Getting in touch with someone I have missed very much. Moving to Como a few months back. And buying a house yesterday!
12. Family issues
13. Buying a house
14. See 12
15. Stressed less, prayed more
16. Stressed about selling our unit, sold our unit, stressed about finding a rented house in the shire, found a house in the shire. Stessed about buying a house, bought a house.
17. Worrying less about stuff I can't control or be responsible for
18. To have a slower temper
19. Family issues sorted
20. To get off my butt and get this drawing project up and running, probably my same resolution last year!
1. Lady Antebellum: Need You Now.
2. Hello World: Lady Antebellum.
3. The Blind Side.
4. The Good Wife.
5. Nothing is popping out in my head right now, so I'll say one of the latest by Nicholas Sparks.
6. Global Warming.
7. Anything election related.
8.
9. Teen celebrities.
10. Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
11. Finally finding the love of my life.
12. The continued struggle of living on unemployment.
13. Finishing this past semester, with my final semester coming up next.
14. Some family disappointments.
15. Nothing....I believe that we learn from everything that happens in our lives....good and bad.
16. Am happy to be in a strong loving relationship that is progressing beautifully, am extatic that I can see the end of my schooling after 2 years.
17. I believe that I'm stronger because I have a stronger and more supportive support system.
18. By next December I hope to be settled in my NEW home, in a NEW city, with my NEW guy, a NEW job with our NEW kitten.
19. To have a less stressful life.
20. Don't do resolutions.
1. the Mumford and sons one - (just to be different)
2.stitched up - herbie hancock featuring john mayer
3. girl with dragon tattoo
4.mad men
5. girl with dragon tattoo
6.
oh this is too hard. I'm stopping now.
1. Sara Groves, Fireflies and Songs.
2. David Ford, Song for the Road.
3. Up
4. Rake. I know the real life people that his life is based on. Hell, I'm one of them.
5. Bob Carr, My Reading Life
6. The rise of ultra right nationalists.
7. Moving Forward.
8. Shane Warne and Liz Hurley
9. Kim Kardsahian
10. Wikileaks
11. finishing the path around my vegetable garden
12. the death of my grandmother
13. being super involved in my kids school life.
14. That our family wasn't once invited to share a meal with a parishioner. Not even a coffee after church. I shouldn't be disappointed.
15. see a movie at the cinema.
16. Frantic. A year of consolidation. Growing in patience and impatience. New love for my wife.
17. Less concerned with what others think of me.
18. Better read.
19. That I will be faithful.
20. To waste less time on things that have no eternal significance.
1. Ella Fitzgerald Gold album.
2. Praise you in the storm - been very inspiring this year for me.
3. Young Victoria
4. Chuck, or The Office, or Big Bang Theory
5. ?? I read so many books, hard to choose a fav this year.
6. obsession with global warming
7. yeah boss
8. federal election
9. any exposed celeb fits this category - I don't care about their lives
10. .... I'm not so good on current affairs
11. buying our new house
12. a really hard year with both our kids with special needs
13. thanking God even in hard times, and knowing that God is good.
14. a deep realisation that some special needs wont go away till heaven.
15. my laziness
16. First year with just one child at home, volunteering for too many things, lots of fun in the new house, love being with my family, hard times, but God is faithful and gives me strength on hard days to continue to trust that He is good.
17. More tired, and calmer.
18. Peaceful.
19. A less stressful year would be nice
20. to be both more organised and more spontaneous
1. ashamedly I must admit I do love my birthday present - Pink's greatest hits
2. Empire State of Mind
3. I'm with Ruth - Young Victoria was excellent. I also enjoyed the animation film Mary and Max (Ben have you seen it?). I also finally got around to seeing Inception and really liked it.
4. Masterchef I suppose
5. You Can Change by Tim Chester
6. People smugglers profiting from desperate people
7. Moving Forward. Stop Teh Boats
8. any political sloganeering
9. Oprah? Though I do love her! Even if she put her O on our bridge.
10. Wikileaks. The world needs people like Julian Assange.
11. Birth of our son Nathan
12. having insomnia again
13. um...giving birth? Raising a baby? I haven't done much other than that!
14. not doing as much of the things I liked before I had a baby - blogging, writing, reading, playing drums.
15. getting my hair short
16. freelanced for first time, had extended holiday while pregnant, gave birth, now raising baby while supporting Sam at college and serving at church.
17. I make a conscious effort to operate on grace, not guilt
18. More of 17.
19. To find a church and community we can serve in long-term post college.
20. To let the gospel shape the way I live.
1. Favourite album, this year (NOTE- doesn't have to have been made this year, just what your fav. was. Same goes with books, movies etc.) - "Redemption Songs", Jars of Clay
2. Favourite song, this year - "I'll Fly Away" from the above album (listened to this a lot around the time of my grandmother's death)
3. Favourite movie, this year - Despite being back in S E Qld where cinemas are cheaper (than in Mackay), I haven't really been to the movies so, possibly "How to Train Your Dragon".
4. Favourite TV show, this year - QI
5. Favourite book, this year - anything from Jennifer Chiaverini's Elm Creek Quilts series
6. A global phenomenon you'd like to see not carried into the next decade - persecution of my Christian brothers and sisters
7. Most annoying word/saying of the year - any variant of "Moving Forward" and "Stop the Boats".
8. Biggest eye-roll inducer of the year - Almost anything that comes out of the mouth of a politician
9. Over-exposed celeb of the year - I was going to say Kylie Minogue but then I remembered that she stayed clothed in the video where everyone else was getting their kit off so I'll join Maso with Lady Gaga.
10. Interesting world event
11. Highlight of your year - going to WA
12. Lowlight of your year - My grandmother's death
13. Something you're proud of achieving this year - making a bag, by hand
14. A disappointment - not getting to NZ
15. Something you'd change if you had the chance again - get to NZ
16. Describe your year in a sentence or two, bare bones - Move back to SE Qld; get a job; become involved in many activities; see friends in WA. Be extremely busy.
17. A way that you are different now than you were in January - richer (in no. of friends and financially)
18. A way you'd like to be different by next December - better able to make friends in my own neighbourhood
19. A hope for next year - see 18.
20. A resolution - get to the gym each weekday the gym is open (allowing for holidays and being ill). I'm doing this on 4 Jan - so far it's looking dodgy.
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