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 44). 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.
- Which is the odd one out of: cougar, puma, leopard and mountain lion?
- Which continent did potatoes originate on?
- Who, in the 1780s, composed the melody we use in the nursery rhymes Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the Alphabet Song?
- Speaking of the alphabet, English use to have a letter called thorn - þ. What sound did it make?
- Who wrote the Novel Animal Farm?
- Billie Joe Armstrong is the frontman of which American rock band?
- Who is New Zealand’s Associate Minister of Transport?
- In which year did the New Zealand Supreme Court first sit? 1996, 2000 or 2004?
- Uruwhenua is the Te Reo Māori word for which kind of official document?
- Estonia and what other European nation are the only two, in Europe, to feature a black horizontal band on their flag?
Answers for 8 May 2020
- Leopard. Cougar, puma and mountain lion are different names for the same animal
- South America
- Mozart
- The “th” sound.
- George Orwell
- Greenday
- Julie Anne Genter
- 2004
- Passport
- Germany
