Win a bottle of fine champagne!

In time-honoured fashion, Seltek would like to invite all our readers to participate in this year's Christmas Competition. Along with tinsel, gluttony and over-expenditure, The Festive Season just wouldn't be the same without it, would it?

The Editor has taken even more time off than usual this year to further his diligent studies of The World and All that is Herein. As an ardent art afficionado he has visited a number of the great art galleries around the globe. Here are six pictures that he took of those iconic edifices (or maybe some of their contents).
Your task is merely to identify which galleries the pictures were taken at. The winner will be the first person to identify all six correctly.

To make it easier for you, we've made it a multiple-choice quiz, so if you don't know which each picture is, just make a stab in the dark! More has been won with less than a guess!

The first nag past the post will win a fine bottle of champagne to make the annual celebrations go with a Pop!

Good luck, Bonne Chance, Viel Glueck, Goed Geluk, Buona Fortuna, Boa Sorte etc etc !

Select your answers below, enter your name and contact details at the end and "Submit" your answers, the first correct answer gets The Plonk.

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Points to Ponder

For the pedants among you:

Why are there five syllables in the word "monosyllabic"?
Why isn't the word, 'phonetically' spelled with an ' f '?
What's another word for Thesaurus?

And for our R& D readers:

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

And finally, just because it's Christmas:

A fool and his money are soon partying.
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
f you tell a joke in the forest, and nobody laughs, was it a joke?

Thanks to Steve Wright for these pearls of wisdom!

The Editor and everyone at Seltek wish all our countless readers a Very Merry Christmas and an Outstanding New Year in 2008!

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