The 29 April Sound Kitchen winners

Are you one of this week’s lucky winners? Today you’ll hear who won the quiz about the French presidential polls. Click on that little “Listen” arrow above and join in!

Hello everyone!

You’ve surely noticed by now we’ve been experimenting with the Sound Kitchen recipes … on Saturdays, at 5.16 universal time, tune in to hear if you are amongst the week’s winners. The winners names are here on our website, too. Look for Short features/Sound Kitchen winners.

Tune in on Sundays, at 4:22, 5:52 and 7:22 universal time, for the quiz question ... and whatever else is cooking up in the Sound Kitchen.

I have wonderful news! The Sound Kitchen Listeners' Cookbook will finally become a reality. A month later than first announced, but the web team promises it will be ready, in the online version, this month, June. Next step: the printed version … and I won’t give up! In the meantime, if you sent in a recipe, try to send in a photo of your completed dish, and of course, of yourself! 

This week’s question was read on 29 April, and was about the first round of voting in the French presidential polls. I asked you to send in the names of the two front-runners, the name of their respective parties and, of those two, which candidate was in the lead.

And the answer is: François Hollande of the Socialist Party, who took 28.6 per cent and then-sitting president Nicolas Sarkozy, of the Union for a Popular Movement party, with 27.1 per cent. By the way, it was the first time a French president running for reelection has failed to win the first round, since the start of the Fifth Republic in 1958.

Third-place Marine Le Pen took the largest share of the vote her far-right National Front has ever won with 18 per cent.

Leftist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, who was backed by the Communist Party, came fourth with 11.1 per cent. And Centrist François Bayrou, who was hoping to repeat his high 2007 score of 18 per cent, garnered only 9.1 per cent.

Of course, you all know who won the second round: François Hollande. He is the 24th President of the French Republic, and the second Socialist president of the Fifth Republic, introduced in 1958. The only other Socialist to serve since the founding of the Fifth Republic was François Mitterrand, who was president from 1981 to 1995.

The winners this week are: Mr Henry Umadhay, from Antique, Philippines; Mr Bhaikan Hazarika, from Assam, India; Mr Hans Verner Lollike, from Hedehusene, Denmark; Mr Vang’Si Goma Loemba, from Accra, Ghana, and Mr Li Ming, from Maanshan City, China.

Congratulations, winners!

This week’s question is about the Cannes Film Festival – who won the Golden Palm? Which film won top honours at this year’s Cannes Film Festival?

Send me your answer by 2 July; the answer and the winners will be announced on the 7 July programme. Be sure you send your postal address in with your answer … and be sure and tell me if you are a Mr or a Mrs or a Ms or a Miss – I don’t want to get it wrong!

Send your answers to:

[e-mail]

or

Susan Owensby
RFI – The Sound Kitchen
BP 9516
75016 Paris
France

or

By SMS … Now you can send your quiz answers via your cell phone !!!!

Dial your country’s international access code, and then:
33 6 31 12 96 82. Don’t forget to include your mailing address in your text.

Remember, it’s not just the quiz which wins you a prize. If your essay goes on the air, you’ll find a package in the mail from the Sound Kitchen. Write in about your community heroes – the people in your community who are quietly working to make the world a better place, in whatever way they can. I am still looking for your “This I Believe” essays, too. Tell us about the principles that guide your life … what you have found to be true from your very own personal experience. Or write in with your most memorable moment, and/or your proudest achievement.

Send your mini book reviews, your musical requests, your secret “guilty” pleasure (mine’s chocolate!), your tricks for remembering things, your favourite quotations and proverbs, descriptions of the local festivals you participate in, or just your general all-around thoughts to:

[e-mail]

Include a phone number, if you can. I’d like to call you and put you on-the-air … and send you a thank-you gift for participating.

I look forward to hearing from you soon!

All the best,

Susan