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It’s finger quizzing good! Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 35). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Where in the world is KFC called PFK (Poulet Frit Kentucky). Hint, not France.
2. Which country has more KFCs, China, Japan or the USA?
3. What is the name of the KFC “burger”, where the buns are deep fried chicken?
4. Was Colonel Sanders first name Harland, Wilheim or Jeffery?
5. The Japanese have a traditional day of eating KFC, where you need to book a table months in advance, on which day of the year?
6. How many thousand KFCs are there around the world? 13,000, 23,000 or 33,000?
7. What business did Colonel Sanders own before KFC?
8. How many secret herbs and spices are rumoured to be part of the KFC secret recipe?
9. In which Auckland mall did NZ’s first KFC open in 1971?
10. Are you Tāmaki Makaurau peeps looking forward to tomorrow? Nga mihi ki a koe, merci beaucoup and chur for you mahi.

Answers for 21 September 2021

1. Quebec, Canada
2. China
3. The Double Down
4. Harold
5. Christmas Day
6. 23,000
7. A petrol station
8. Eleven
9. Royal Oak
10. ❤️

If you quiz me down I’ll become more powerful than you can possible imagine. Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 34). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. San Marino is landlocked by which other country?
2. Attics Finch is a character from which novel?
3. Which former member of Monty Python directed the 1985 film Brazil?
4. What is one thousand gigabytes?
5. Which region of New Zealand is the Coromandel Peninsula in?
6. People can be described as being “as quiet as a church…” what?
7. Which mountain is also called Chomolungma or Sagarmāthā?
8. What is unique about the Airbus A380 jetliner? (remember flying places?)
9. What colour is the pigment chlorophyll?
10. Which is further north, Slovenia or Slovakia?

Answers for 20 September 2021

1. Italy
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Terry Gilliam
4. One terabyte
5. The Waikato
6. Mouse
7. Mt Everest
8. It’s a full double decker
9. Green
10. Slovakia

Make like a tree and quiz outta here! Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 33). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Which AC/DC song was the lead single of the 1990 album The Razor’s Edge?
2. Cumulonimbus, Nimbostratus and Cirrus are all types of what?
3. Who directed the 2009 sci-fi movie Moon?
4. What trained farm animals, other than dogs, are used to sniff out truffles?
5. How many states are there in Australia?
6. Who wrote the 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale?
7. Monaco has a single land border with which other country?
8. Which is taller, Taranaki, Ngauruhoe or Tongariro?
9. The British call them Wellington boots, what do we call them?
10. What is the Te Reo word for shoe?

Answers for 19 September 2021

1. Thunderstruck
2. Cloud
3. Duncan Jones
4. Pigs
5. Six (WA, SA, Vic, NSW, Qld and Tas)
6. Margaret Atwood
7. France
8. Taranaki
9. Gum boots
10. Hū

It’s like ray-ee-ain, on your quizzing day. Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 32). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. What profession wear hats called toques?
2. How many moons does Mars have?
3. Who played Tyrion Lannister in the Game of Thrones TV series?
4. In which country was Harry Houdini born?
5. Which marine animal has the most complex eyes in nature?
6. The Dominion was once the morning newspaper in Wellington. What was the name of the evening newspaper?
7. Speaking of the 80s, who became New Zealand’s prime minister following the 1984 election?
8. What is the chemical symbol of copper?
9. Can’t Feel My Face was a single from which Canadian musician?
10. Speaking of faces, what is the Te Reo word for face?

Answers for 18 September 2021

1. Chefs
2. Two
3. Peter Dinklage
4. Hungary
5. The mantis shrimp
6. The Evening Post
7. David Lange
8. Cu
9. The Weeknd
10. Kanohi

No sir, I don’t quiz it. Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 31). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. How many pounds are there in a kilogram?
2. Which is further south, Auckland Island or Campbell Island?
3. In which year was John Lennon assassinated?
4. Which of the North American Great Lakes has the greatest depth and volume?
5. True or false, watermelons are botanically berries?
6. In which year did 34 northern Māori chiefs signed the New Zealand Declaration of Independence?
7. What is the Te Reo word for flowers?
8. His first two names are Simon William and he was New Zealand Prime Minister. What is he better know as?
9. The Otago and Canterbury peninsulas are the remnants of what?
10. The Taylor Swift song Bad Blood was rumoured to be about which other pop singer?

Answers for 17 September 2021

1. 2.2
2. Campbell Island
3. 1980
4. Lake Superior
5. True
6. 1835
7. Putiputi
8. Bill English
9. Volcanos
10. Katy Perry

We’re gone take this quizvoy, across the USA! Quizvoy! Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 30). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Normally, what colour is Marge Simpson’s dress?
2. Which country does Belarus border to its south?
3. Chuck Taylor All Stars trainers were originally designed to be used in which sport?
4. Speaking of chuck, is chuck steak a cut from the front or back half of an animal?
5. In what does Spongebob Squarepants live, under the sea?
6. The Aegean Sea is part of which larger sea?
7. Which is typically heavier, the kea or the kākā?
8. Which media did the Sony Walkman play?
9. If a meteorite is travelling through the atmosphere, what is it called?
10. Jerry, Beth and Summer are characters in which cartoon series?

Answers for 16 September 2021

1. Green
2. Ukraine
3. Basketball
4. Front
5. A Pineapple
6. The Mediterranean
7. Kea - by 100%
8. Music cassettes
9. A meteor
10. Rick and Morty

I used to be quiz it, then they changed what quiz was. Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 29). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. The homburg is a style of what type of clothing?
2. What does haemoglobin in your blood transport around the body?
3. Which is smaller, a viola, a cello or a violin?
4. What are the two colours of the Danish flag?
5. Which London suburb do the fictional creatures The Wombles hail from?
6. What surface is the French Tennis Open played on?
7. Which three elements are required to make ethanol?
8. True or false, “The Destroying Angels” mushrooms are poisonous.
9. A chow chow is a breed of what domestic animal?
10. Flutter Shy is a character from which children’s cartoon?

Answers for 15 September 2021

1. A hat
2. Oxygen
3. Violin
4. Red and white
5. Wimbledon
6. Clay
7. Carbon, oxygen and hydrogen
8. True - they’re highly toxic
9. A dog
10. My Little Pony

Quiz yourself more bliss. Forget about the last one, get yourself another. Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 28). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. What do the letters in the board game brand MB stand for?
2. Citrus plants originated on which continent?
3. Who wrote the Hairy Maclary series of children’s books?
4. What is the fifth letter of the Greek Alphabet
5. Prior to mummification, a procedure called excerebration was performed to remove which organ from the corpse?
6. True or false, the Chinese Wall is the only man-made structure visible from space?
7. Who was NZ PM after David Lange?
8. Which Wellington reef, which shares its name with several All Blacks, did the Wahine ground on?
9. How many stars are there on the Australian flag?
10. What kind of rock is granite? Igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary?

Answers for 14 September 2021

1. Milton Bradley
2. India/Asia
3. Linley Dodd
4. Epsilon
5. The brain
6. False. It’s the width of a road.
7. Geoffrey Palmer
8. Barret Reef
9. Six
10. Igneous

Sipping on gin a quiz. Laid back. With my mind on my quizzing and my auizzing on my mind. Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 27). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Which North Island town is the song Poi E associated with?
2. The concept of Ying Yang originated in the ancient philosophy of which culture?
3. Stinking Bishop, Slack Ma Girdle and Ticklemore are all varieties of which food?
4. Is the surface of a circle concave or convex?
5. What is the binary number 101 in decimal?
6. What weather phenomenon is an arc de ciel in French, aniwaniwa in Te Reo and regenbogen in German?
7. Which three primary colours are used to make images on modern TVs and smartphones?
8. The band members of which band along with Chris Cornell formed the band Audioslave?
9. What was the maximum capacity of a 3.5” floppy disk in megabytes? 1.44, 5.25 or 8.7?
10. Played by John de Lancie, Q is a character in which TV show franchise?

Answers for 13 September 2021

1. Patea
2. Chinese
3. Cheese
4. Convex
5. 5
6. A rainbow
7. Red, green and blue
8. Rage Against the Machine
9. 1.44 (please insert disk 6 of 23)
10. Star Trek

Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 26). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. True or false, glass is a very viscous liquid
2. Which country was Audrey Hepburn born in?
3. What are the two main colours on the Portuguese flag?
4. What is the collective noun for a group of ferrets?
5. What is the natural phenomenon called where animals and plants produce chemicals which glow?
6. Petrichor is associated with what kind of weather?
7. Cerberus, the hound of Hades, was a legendary giant dog with what unique feature?
8. Who wrote the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon?
9. What relation were Ross and Monica in the sitcom Friends?
10. What does the U in USB stand for?

Answers for 12 September 2021

1. False, it’s a solid
2. Belgium
3. Red and green
4. A business (or busyness)
5. Bioluminescence
6. Rain - it’s the smell of rain
7. Multiple heads
8. Trey Parker and Matt Stone (of South Park fame)
9. Brother and Sister
10. Universal

I’ve quizzed things you’d never believe. Quizzes on fire on the shoulder of Orion. Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 25). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. In which year did Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon?
2. What is the collective noun for a group of owls?
3. What is the name of the method where one sucks tea or coffee through a TimTam biscuit?
4. What are the names of Donald Duck’s triple nephews?
5. In which US city did Coca Cola originate?
6. Complete these Beatles lyrics “I am the egg man…”
7. Territory of which European country is directly west of Invercargill?
8. New Zealand and New Caledonia are part of which mostly submerged continent?
9. How many knees do elephants typically have?
10. Master Chief is a character from which video game series?

Answers for 11 September 2021

1. 1969
2. A parliament of owls
3. A TimTam slam!
4. Huey, Dewey, and Louie
5. Atlanta, Georgia
6. “They are the egg men. I am the Walrus!”
7. France (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
8. Zealandia
9. Two (their front “knees” are wrists)
10. Halo

I’m a quizzer jack and I’m OK, I sleep all night and I quiz all day. Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 24). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. In which year was Queen Elizabeth II coronated? 1953, 1956 or 1959?
2. Which Star Trek actor directed the Next Generation films First Contact and Insurrection?
3. Damon Albarn fronts the Gorillaz and which long-running rock/Britpop band?
4. Which country won the 2018 Football World Cup?
5. Which island in Aotearoa is the third most populated?
6. In space, what colour is the Sun?
7. Equinophobia is the fear of what?
8. The manumea, a large species of pigeon, is the national animal of which Pacific nation?
9. The SI unit Kelvin is a measurement of what?
10. What chemical element is also known as brimstone?

Answers for 10 September 2021

1. 1953
2. Jonathan Frakes (Riker)
3. Blur
4. France
5. Waiheke Island
6. White (slightly green)
7. Horses
8. Samoa
9. Temperature
10. Sulphur

Thursday. The day of Thor. And quizzing. With lightning! Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 23). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Which video game character was originally called Jump Man
2. The tricolour of the Mexican flag is the same as which European country?
3. Which pop singer was dubbed The Material Girl due to lyrics in one of her songs?
4. Which actress starred in the Sister Act movies and as the character Guinan in Star Trek The Next Generation?
5. The Manx Gaelic language is native to which island in the British Isles?
6. Mimeographs we’re used to produce what?
7. What is 3 cubed?
8. Which Simpsons character has an 11 letter long first name?
9. Capybaras are the largest living member of which group of mammals?
10. Which has a higher atomic number, silver, gold or platinum?

Answers for 09 September 2021

1. Super Mario
2. Italy
3. Madonna
4. Whoopi Goldberg
5. The Isle of Mann
6. Duplicate documents (they made those purple print outs that people would get at school in the olden days)
7. 27
8. Bartholomew (Bart)
9. Rodents
10. Gold (79, Pt 78, Au 49)

If it hadn’t been for Quizzing-Eye Joe, I’d been married long time ago. Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 22). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. People from which country introduced tempura into Japan in the 1500s?
2. What is a billion micro grams in kg?
3. Lego is a company based in which country?
4. Which pop singer’s first album was self-titled with her real name, Katy Hudson?
5. What is the fourth element of the periodic table?
6. Speaking of four, how many is fourscore?
7. Which has the most vitamin-c per gram out of oranges, kiwifruit and strawberries?
8. Which animal is pictured on the flag of California?
9. Pitcairn island is partially inhabited by the descendants of the mutineers of which Royal Navy ship?
10. What was Michael Jackson’s pet chimpanzee’s name?

Answers for 08 September 2021

1. The Portuguese
2. One kilogram
3. Denmark
4. Katy Perry
5. Beryllium
6. Eighty (score is twenty)
7. Kiwifruit
8. A brown bear
9. The Bounty
10. Bubbles

What do you mean there are other people? I’ve been lead to believe we’re the only ones! Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 21). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Which three countries flags are mixed in to make the Union Jack?
2. Who was Luke Skywalker, in Star Wars, named after?
3. How many total syllables does a haiku contain?
4. What makes monotremes unique amoung mammals?
5. Name one of the two chemical elements with a name beginning with a Y?
6. What happened to New Zealand currency on the 10th of July 1967?
7. How do you say “hello” in Cook Island Māori?
8. Speaking of Cook, what’s the Māori name for the Cook Strait?
9. How many litres are there in 10,000 cubic centimetres?
10. The Downward Spiral is an album by which group?

Answers for 06 September 2021

1. England, Scotland and N. Ireland
2. George Lucas (Luke S.)
3. Seventeen
4. They lay eggs
5. Yttrium/Ytterbium
6. It went decimal
7. Kia Orana
8. Te Moana-o-Raukawa
9. 10
10. Nine Inch Nails (NIN)

Monday, Monday getting’ on down on Monday, everybody’s looking forward to the announcement. Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Season 3, Episode 20). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. True or false, “ananas” is the French word for banana?
2. Which 1987 Mel Brooks film starring Bill Pullman and John Candy was a parody of Star Wars and other science fiction?
3. Speaking of John Candy, in which country was he born?
4. What is the capital city of Indonesia?
5. In which year was the original iPod released?
6. What is the anti-matter version of an electron?
7. How many seasons were there of the Game of Thrones TV show?
8. Which country’s flag is the silhouette of a two-headed eagle on a red background?
9. What is the name of the cross-shaped button, often used for movement, on game controllers?
10. What is pi to 4 decimal places?

Answers for 06 September 2021

1. False (ananas means pineapple)
2. Spaceballs
3. Canada
4. Jakarta
5. 2001
6. A positron
7. Eight
8. Albania
9. D-pad (short for digital pad)
10. 3.1416