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 (Spaced Out Aotearoa Day 15). 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.
- Complete the lyrics to this 1987 Was Not Was song: Open the door, get on the floor, everybody …?
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a French territory off the coast of which country?
- Which is the longer bridge - Auckland Harbour Bridge, Thorndon Over-bridges or the Rakaia River bridge?
- Perry is a cider-like drink made from which fruit?
- The LIGO experiment was the first to measure what cosmic phenomenon in 2016?
- On a standard dart board, what number is between 13 and 10?
- Dion Reynolds and Jessica O’Connor were rescued yesterday, after being lost for 13 days, in which national park near Nelson?
- What is the main grain used to make bourbon whiskey?
- Most of the world calls them abalone, what do we call them?
- What weather phenomenon is the Freemantle Doctor?
Answers for 25 May 2020
- Walk the dinosaur
- Canada
- Raikia River bridge (1.7 km, Auckland harbour is ~1km and Thorndon over-bridges are ~1.3 km)
- Pears
- Gravitational waves (from 2 black holes merging)
- 6
- Kahurangi National Park
- Corn or Maize
- Paua
- A sea breeze
