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 26). 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.
- What is the brightest star in the sky?
- Which chemical element has the symbol Hg?
- Gillette’s range of razors targeted towards women has what brand?
- “Do you remember, the 21st night of September” are the opening lines of a song by which genre-spanning American band?
- What British chocolate bar was originally developed to resemble the American Milky Way chocolate bar?
- What is the name of the Roman version of the ancient Greek god Zeus?
- Which Petone-based communications company did Australian company Telstra buy in 1999?
- In Futurama, which planet was renamed “Urectum” because scientists wanted to “end that stupid joke once and for all”?
- What fictional Californian town is the TV show Veronica Mars set in?
- What is the name of Mickey Mouse’s dog?
Answers for 20 April 2020
- Our star, the Sun
- Mercury
- Venus
- Earth, Wind and Fire
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Saturn (officially Saturn Communications)
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Pluto
