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 Day 23). There’s a meta puzzle too, see if you can piece it together from the 3rd to the 22nd of April. All previous quizzes can be found here.
- Musician Trent Reznor is best known for being the front man of which band?
- What was the pen name of author and cartoonist Theodor Geisel?
- What was the name of the computer which helped Jem and the Holograms in the 1980s cartoon series of the same name?
- Which chemical element has the symbol K?
- What is Earth’s third largest ocean?
- Ignoring the one-off 2009 revival, in what year was the final series of Top Town broadcast in New Zealand? (Bonus point: who won that year?)
- What is the southern most point of the Realm of New Zealand?
- What point on Earth are you furthest from the planet’s centre? Country is fine. Bonus point for exact location.
- What were Alta Vista, Lycos and Excite?
- What was the name of Sega’s last game console?
Answers for 17 April 2020
- Nine Inch Nails
- Dr Seuss
- Synergy
- Potassium
- The Indian Ocean (ASIA Pacific is the smallest to biggest - Arctic, Southern, Indian, Atlantic, Pacific)
- 1990 (and Greymouth)
- The South Pole (I’ll also accept the Ross Dependency)
- Chimborazo volcano, in Equador
- Internet search engines (from the late 90s)
- The Dreamcast
