Put your pens down please.

Date 28th Jan 2003
Submitted by Anonymous on 28 January 2003 - 1:00am

It's all over for the quiz. Time's up. Put your pens down please.

In 1st place...
... and the winner of a Spanner Films party pack containing Drowned Out & McLibel videos, some posters and anything else interesting we find lying round the office...
... it's the only person to get all 30 questions correct... yes, it's Mr John Vinod, from the USA.

In 2nd place...
and the winners of a video copy of Drowned Out...
... it's the 7 people who got 29 questions correct... all of whom will win a prize as we're so dam (sic) generous... and they are...
Supratik Chakraborty from India
Radhika Rammohan from USA
Neesha from USA
Kas Graham from England
Dana Clark from USA
Aravinda Pillalamarri from India
Keith Hyams from UK

And the funniest tiebreaker prize...
... goes to Deb from the UK who came up with
"Big dams are fantastic because....they touch those even McDonald's cannot reach."

We also liked, but are too mean to give prizes to:
Big dams are fantastic because....
... why simply read in history about the exploitation of nature & people when we can repeat it? - Aravinda Pillalamarri, India
... their ability to cure erectile disfunction has proved better than Viagra - Neesha, World Citizen
... they let you extract the electricity from water, which would otherwise wastefully flow into the sea - Radhika Rammohan, USA
... they're the only thing in India big enough to fill a postcard; it's a place of small things - Kas Graham, England
... they provide a home for gigantic beavers - Rich Quick, UK
... they offer so many opportunities for Westerners to practise diving skills - Fiona Anderson, UK
... they can damn development like no other - Indranil Dutta, USA
... they commanded the crow that Supreme Court is the thief and all these are this touts. - John Vinod, US
... they really help people and are not at all built so that rich people can get even richer - Matt, England
... they are BIG and they are dams ... you need some more reason? - Supratik Chakraborty, India