Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

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

Monday, December 17, 2012

The Epic End of Year Super Quiz 2012

Thanks for another year of quizzilating, friends. I always enjoy reading your answers. 

But now it's time to farewell the quizzing year that was, with the annual Super Quiz, the biggest and baddest quiz in the Southern, Northern or (lesser known) Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

So, grab yourself a Scotch Finger and a warm mug of Ovaltine, and have a crack at this-

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

11 comments:

Ben McLaughlin said...

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

Pedro said...

1. Whatevs
2. ditto
3. Ummm...Dark Knight was pretty good
4. Easy. Game of Thrones
5. Blue book
6. Religious fanaticism
7. There's a few. TOTES (vomit)but LOL is always up there.
8. Those deadsh*t baptist cats wanting to picket the funerals of those poor kids in the school massacre.
9. All of them. Who gives a ????
10. 7kms of glacier broke off.
11. Birth of my second son
12. Nup...hasn't been anything of note. maybe having to move out before the baby was born? Otherwise, Good year.
13. Bought a house
14. Packing up the shaping bay
15. Bought a house earlier on for the asking price...
16. Absolutely flat out. Started a new job in a busy studio, had another child and bought a house. WOOHOO!
17.See above.
18. ....nup all good.
19. HeAp of snowboarding and surfing hopefully.
20. surf more and spend some quality time with Claire..

Cheers for 2012.

Libby said...

Thanks to Play School for the time to do this! Merry Christmas.

1. Ben Pakula's A Very Special Tent. I've barely listened to adult music this year so have to put in a kids one. I've loved watching my 5 year old rocking out to this one.
2. Open Your Eyes, All Mankind (from Simple Desire)
3. The Gods Must be Crazy (first time I've seen it - hilarious/wacky!)
4. Survivor
5. How to Really Love Your Child (Ross Campbell) - really enhanced my parenting skills.

6. wastefulness/lack of recycling
7. Anything that is just initials that I can't work out.
8. some of the performances at the Queen's Jubilee
9. Not a clue
10. Queen's Jubilee

11. Birthing my 3rd child
12. 2 big ones - Not being with my Nan and family when she died and my husband herniating a disc in his lumbar spine.
13. Having 3 kids at home and coping, even flourishing sometimes!
14. Not being able to skype some good friends regularly
15. Nothing I don't think.

16. New state, new house (x2!), new church (x2!), new baby, losing my Nan, 10 years married - Glad we've made it through a big year.
17. I don't have a baby in my belly
18. Definitely want to be fitter and stronger physically.
19. My son will make good friends in his first full time year at school.
20. Make time to read the bible daily that is not just before bed time so that I'm not too tired to listen to God.

Anonymous said...

1 and 2. I always thought I'd be one of those parents who was totally down with the latest cool music, but I haven't listened to new stuff for at least this last year and can't think of an old album or song that particularly stood out as a favourite. OOPS.
3. I rewatched Juno last night and have reslotted it in top position on my favourite movies list.
4. :/
5. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. I'm terrified I'll never read another book as good as this one.

6. I may have said this in last year's quiz: oppression and discrimination in its many and various forms.
7. YOLO
8. Tony Abbott
9. I haven't been exposed to many celebs this year, which is refreshing!
10. Oh gosh, I need to watch the news more often. I have no idea.

11. Bible college in second semester.
12. The miscarriage.
13. Doing surprisingly well at college.
14. See 12.
15. After realising this year that I'm actually not that bad at studying, I'd go back and change first semester of 2010!

16. God proving His goodness and sovreignty through big upheavals and bigger blessings.
17. I'm excited about my faith in a way I wasn't at the beginning of the year. I think I've discovered more about myself this year, too.
18. It would be REALLY NICE to have a baby by this time next year.
19. As well as 18, I hope I discover some new music so that my first answers to next year's quiz are more exciting. I also hope I finish the last 2 subjects for my Grap Dip; it'll be nice to let it go.
20. To get a better idea of where I should head in future and what that will involve (in other words, to figure out what I should be when I grow up).

Crazyjedidiah said...

1. Crazy Love - Hawk Nelson
2. Crazy Love - Hawk Nelson
3. Looper
4. Grimm
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon.
6. Mass Shootings
7. dunno
8. One Direction
9. One Direction
10.Prank call and fall out.
11.Getting some work eventually.
12.Spending most of the year without work still.
13.Getting work.
14.That it is only casual work and only for a few weeks.
15.Not sure.
16.Spent most of the year doing job applications while getting nowhere, while doing occasional volunteer work and distance education study. When everything had basically fineshed I finally got some casual work.
17.I have kinda some work and i'm older.
18.Have a proper job.
19.That I get a job.
20.That I will be more outgoing.

onlinesoph said...

epic indeed!

1. Oasis - What's the story morning glory
2. That Gotye song (I know, me and everyone else...)
3. This is problematic for me as I always watch movies on DVD, way after they've been released! I only saw one movie released this year and that's the latest Batman movie. It was ok.
4. Offspring
5. The Night Circus

6. mistreatment of refugees
7. winning.
8. The whole sugar free dieting fad
9. Psy. (sp?) I worry for him. What comes up must come down.
10. That speech Julia Gillard did that went viral. Julian Assange running for senate. Israel's attack on Gaza posted on Youtube. A prank call from an Aussie radio station resulting in the death of a British nurse. The world is bizarre.

11. Birth of my daughter.
12. Unfortunately way too many to mention! It's been a really hard year. Up there - my dad getting sick, my husband's lovely nan passing away, my son being diagnosed with a developmental disorder, post natal depression rearing its ugly head again. Can't wait till next year!!
13. furnished our entire house and created a warm, welcoming home. We initally moved in with only enough furniture to fill two bedrooms and half the family room.
14. Not being able to keep blogging
15. Nothing really...

16. A hard year full of many opportunities to display trust in God
17. I'm a lot less judgmental of other parents and a lot less confident in my abilites to parent (in a good way)
18. More deeply rooted in God's amazing love for me, in a way that impacts every facet of my life. Practically, I'd love to feel like I was ahead of the curve instead of running behind everything
19. That I'd be able to do things that don't involve children
20. I'd really like to lose my baby weight! That would be nice :)

Georgina said...



1. Mika’s new album
2. Probably Somebody that I used to know, even though I think that was more 2011.
3. I can only remember seeing one movie this year, so I guess “Hunger Games”
4. I really enjoyed watching “once upon a time in Cabramatta”
5. I guess the Hunger Games trilogy
6. Press intrusions and manipulations
7. 50 shades of Grey!!
8. Being Lara Bingle
9. Psy of course!
10. CERN Hadron Collider and the God Particle
11. Being asked to speak as a Guest Speaker for the first time, and coordinating a conference
12. Losing Rusty my ferret of 5 years
13. Losing 18kg!
14. My holiday in Thailand was disappointing
15. Not go to Thailand
16. Church: music, kids youth group, singing. Work: moved office, new challenges. Home: swimming around Cockatoo Island again, Study: doing new counselling course
17. I’m 18kg lighter
18. I’d like to lose the remaining 14kg by next December
19. That my sister will happily get married
20. That I will try to be better at balancing stuff and not burning out (as much)

sightreading.com.au said...

1. TobyMac - Eye on It. Or anything by the Piano Guys.
2. Ahh can't think.
3. OH MY GOODNESS Les Miserables. Go see it RIGHT NOW.
4. Modern Family?
5. The Litigators

6. Bikinis
7. Totes.
8. Gangnam style
9. Um?
10. US Election being quite close. There was almost a pro-lifer in the White House.

11. My daughter learning to read.
12. Very sad and untimely death of my student.
13. Cutting my workload in half.
14. Being tired all year
15. Without a doubt, talking to my student before she died.

16. Daughter started school, husband took on new business, 4yo entertained me all day long, toddler learned to toddle, taught a lot of piano, played a bit of Settlers.
17. Pregnant, baby!
18. More patient with my children
19. More time with friends.
20. Same as Georgina :)

Beth said...

1. Zac Brown Band: Uncaged
2. Blown Away: Carrie Underwood
3. Hmm...difficult. Haven't watched a lot of movies. I'll say Lawless...since we just watched it.
4. The Good Wife
5. I've read a couple of Danielle Steel...off the reading wagon.

6. Gun violence.
7. Anything having to do with election....what an annoying time.
8. Anything that lingers with the press....
9. Aren't they all??
10. Re-election of our president.

11. We got a dog. Lab puppy. Not so puppy anymore. He's 70 pounds at a year old. His name is Bobber.
12. Difficulty in finding a permanent job.
13. Positive words from a therapist where I work. Made me very happy.
14. I've been a temp at my current job for a year, would like to get hired on.
15. Nothing.

16. I'm very happy with Dan. We added a lab puppy to our family...Bobber. Dan has a new steady job, I have a job in my field, but it's a temp job and doesn't pay that much.
17. More comfortable job-wise. Learning that less is more.
18. I'd like to be more health, and am taking the steps to get there.
19. To have a great job in my field.
20. Be healthier!!

Ben McLaughlin said...

I never got round to doing this. So for posterity..

1. Fallen by Burzum and Pure Holocaust by Immortal
2. Dunno..something of the above. But also as a guilty pleasure the Party Rock theme.
3. Arrietty
4. Mad Men and Portlandia
5. A Game of Thrones
6. Facebook
7. All of them
8. Troll hunting
9. Rhianna
10. Obama term 2

Ben McLaughlin said...

11. New baby on the way
12. Miscarriage
13. Tangible start on my comic strip
14. Miscarriage
15. All the dumb relational mistakes i made
16. We got pregnant, then misscarried and had a dark few months. Another baby on the way now. Lot of emotional up and downs this year.
17. More optimistic about life
18. Slower to anger
19. That there'll be more financial security..
20. Make better use of my time

Ps thanks everyone for answering the quiz. Great to read all your answers.