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All these 'USA residents only' contests on here break my Australian heart. Ah well.

When you reach your final year of high-school here, you have to sit a GAT test.  Basically a general knowledge test over pretty much every subject. They say it's to help your Final score/rank should you miss an exam and whatnot.  (They refer to your GAT mark and past outcomes to derive a score)  This test is pretty infamous for its ridiculous questions.  I remember there was one biology question about arriving on an alien planet and having to decide which plant would survive.... But anyway, there was an art question that really irritated me.  You had to refer to a given painting and select from four options, A B C D, what emotions it was por

Are amazing. They are this smudge tool you can use with grey leads...look like a rolled up (and pointed) piece of paper to cardboard-like..thing.  They work really well if you want to blend in shadows and whatnot.  Wait..wikipedia sums it up well.... "Blending stumps (also known as "tortillons" or "smudge sticks") are lengths of tightly rolled paper that come to a point at one or both ends. Stumps are useful because they allow for precise blending, by using either the flat or tip of the point. After a stump has built up an amount of graphite or charcoal on its point, it can be used as a drawing tool in its own right; the light strokes it pr