March 13, 2010 | Bangkok

May News Quiz

May News Quiz

May 27th, 2009

1. What was found in Chonburi’s sunken containers?

a. Everyone’s missing Japanese father.
b. Nonzee Nimbutr’s pledge to stop drinking
    and driving.
c. Bangkok’s plans to buy new buses.
d. Sondhi’s attempted killer’s eyeglasses.

 

2. Who does Justice Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga want to send to an abandoned island turned prison?

a. Korbsak, to make sure he doesn’t defect to Phuea Thai.
b. People who spoil the current mass hysteria by testing negative for H1N1
c. Kids who play video games yet lead normal lives.
d. Anyone who claims 3G is really coming to Thailand.

 

3. Boonrawd’s marketing manager said an “unnamed
company” would make B1.5 billion from the tax hike on beer.
He meant:

a. Boonrawd: The price of beer goes up. People go broke.
    They’re depressed. They drink more Singha.
b. AIG insurance: Drink less beer. Crash less often.
c. Mona Lisa Massage: money in the state’s coffers = money for politicians = money for massage girls.
d. Yaa Dong brewers.

 

4. What constitutes a cause for rating a movie 20-plus according to the new standards?

a. Ananda Everingham (in which case the rating only applies to loose women and homosexuals).
b. Spaghetti strap tops.
c. Fattening foods and tight clothes.
d. Miss Tiffany opening her mouth.

 

5. What will make Abhisit step down?

a. Any more jokes about Newcastle.
b. Heavy rains.
c. Having to hold the ASEAN summit in Khon Kaen.
d. Claims he put that beer mat in the Aussie woman’s handbag.

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