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 48). 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.
- If you set sail directly east from Gisbourne, what country would you end up in?
- The theme track for album Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield, was used on the soundtrack for which 1973 horror film?
- What is the sixth element of the periodic table?
- “Madam I’m Adam” is an sentence that’s an example of what sort of sequence?
- What is the English name of the Greater Wellington city of Te Awakairangi (New Zealand’s 6th most populous)?
- In which childrens book do the characters have to negotiate obstacles such as long wavey grass, a deep cold river, and a deep dark forest?
- The TV show Wellington paranormal is a spin off of which Taika Waititi/Jermaine Clement movie?
- Which of the follow is botanically a nut, rather than a seed: peanuts, cashews, brazil nuts or chesnuts?
- Which NBA team does Dame Valerie Adams’ brother play for?
- The movie Blade Runner is based on which Philip K. Dick novel?
Answers for 12 May 2020
- Chile
- The Exorcist
- Carbon
- A palindrome - it’s the same forward and backwards
- Lower Hutt
- We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
- What We Do In The Shadows
- Chestnut, all the others are seeds.
- Steven plays for the Oklahoma City Thunder
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
