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I used to be quiz it, then they changed what quiz was. 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 Season 3, Episode 29). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. The homburg is a style of what type of clothing?
2. What does haemoglobin in your blood transport around the body?
3. Which is smaller, a viola, a cello or a violin?
4. What are the two colours of the Danish flag?
5. Which London suburb do the fictional creatures The Wombles hail from?
6. What surface is the French Tennis Open played on?
7. Which three elements are required to make ethanol?
8. True or false, “The Destroying Angels” mushrooms are poisonous.
9. A chow chow is a breed of what domestic animal?
10. Flutter Shy is a character from which children’s cartoon?

Answers for 15 September 2021

1. A hat
2. Oxygen
3. Violin
4. Red and white
5. Wimbledon
6. Clay
7. Carbon, oxygen and hydrogen
8. True - they’re highly toxic
9. A dog
10. My Little Pony

Quiz yourself more bliss. Forget about the last one, get yourself another. 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 Season 3, Episode 28). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. What do the letters in the board game brand MB stand for?
2. Citrus plants originated on which continent?
3. Who wrote the Hairy Maclary series of children’s books?
4. What is the fifth letter of the Greek Alphabet
5. Prior to mummification, a procedure called excerebration was performed to remove which organ from the corpse?
6. True or false, the Chinese Wall is the only man-made structure visible from space?
7. Who was NZ PM after David Lange?
8. Which Wellington reef, which shares its name with several All Blacks, did the Wahine ground on?
9. How many stars are there on the Australian flag?
10. What kind of rock is granite? Igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary?

Answers for 14 September 2021

1. Milton Bradley
2. India/Asia
3. Linley Dodd
4. Epsilon
5. The brain
6. False. It’s the width of a road.
7. Geoffrey Palmer
8. Barret Reef
9. Six
10. Igneous

Sipping on gin a quiz. Laid back. With my mind on my quizzing and my auizzing on my mind. 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 Season 3, Episode 27). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Which North Island town is the song Poi E associated with?
2. The concept of Ying Yang originated in the ancient philosophy of which culture?
3. Stinking Bishop, Slack Ma Girdle and Ticklemore are all varieties of which food?
4. Is the surface of a circle concave or convex?
5. What is the binary number 101 in decimal?
6. What weather phenomenon is an arc de ciel in French, aniwaniwa in Te Reo and regenbogen in German?
7. Which three primary colours are used to make images on modern TVs and smartphones?
8. The band members of which band along with Chris Cornell formed the band Audioslave?
9. What was the maximum capacity of a 3.5” floppy disk in megabytes? 1.44, 5.25 or 8.7?
10. Played by John de Lancie, Q is a character in which TV show franchise?

Answers for 13 September 2021

1. Patea
2. Chinese
3. Cheese
4. Convex
5. 5
6. A rainbow
7. Red, green and blue
8. Rage Against the Machine
9. 1.44 (please insert disk 6 of 23)
10. Star Trek

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 Season 3, Episode 26). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. True or false, glass is a very viscous liquid
2. Which country was Audrey Hepburn born in?
3. What are the two main colours on the Portuguese flag?
4. What is the collective noun for a group of ferrets?
5. What is the natural phenomenon called where animals and plants produce chemicals which glow?
6. Petrichor is associated with what kind of weather?
7. Cerberus, the hound of Hades, was a legendary giant dog with what unique feature?
8. Who wrote the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon?
9. What relation were Ross and Monica in the sitcom Friends?
10. What does the U in USB stand for?

Answers for 12 September 2021

1. False, it’s a solid
2. Belgium
3. Red and green
4. A business (or busyness)
5. Bioluminescence
6. Rain - it’s the smell of rain
7. Multiple heads
8. Trey Parker and Matt Stone (of South Park fame)
9. Brother and Sister
10. Universal

I’ve quizzed things you’d never believe. Quizzes on fire on the shoulder of Orion. 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 Season 3, Episode 25). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. In which year did Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon?
2. What is the collective noun for a group of owls?
3. What is the name of the method where one sucks tea or coffee through a TimTam biscuit?
4. What are the names of Donald Duck’s triple nephews?
5. In which US city did Coca Cola originate?
6. Complete these Beatles lyrics “I am the egg man…”
7. Territory of which European country is directly west of Invercargill?
8. New Zealand and New Caledonia are part of which mostly submerged continent?
9. How many knees do elephants typically have?
10. Master Chief is a character from which video game series?

Answers for 11 September 2021

1. 1969
2. A parliament of owls
3. A TimTam slam!
4. Huey, Dewey, and Louie
5. Atlanta, Georgia
6. “They are the egg men. I am the Walrus!”
7. France (French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
8. Zealandia
9. Two (their front “knees” are wrists)
10. Halo

I’m a quizzer jack and I’m OK, I sleep all night and I quiz all day. 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 Season 3, Episode 24). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. In which year was Queen Elizabeth II coronated? 1953, 1956 or 1959?
2. Which Star Trek actor directed the Next Generation films First Contact and Insurrection?
3. Damon Albarn fronts the Gorillaz and which long-running rock/Britpop band?
4. Which country won the 2018 Football World Cup?
5. Which island in Aotearoa is the third most populated?
6. In space, what colour is the Sun?
7. Equinophobia is the fear of what?
8. The manumea, a large species of pigeon, is the national animal of which Pacific nation?
9. The SI unit Kelvin is a measurement of what?
10. What chemical element is also known as brimstone?

Answers for 10 September 2021

1. 1953
2. Jonathan Frakes (Riker)
3. Blur
4. France
5. Waiheke Island
6. White (slightly green)
7. Horses
8. Samoa
9. Temperature
10. Sulphur

Thursday. The day of Thor. And quizzing. With lightning! 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 Season 3, Episode 23). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Which video game character was originally called Jump Man
2. The tricolour of the Mexican flag is the same as which European country?
3. Which pop singer was dubbed The Material Girl due to lyrics in one of her songs?
4. Which actress starred in the Sister Act movies and as the character Guinan in Star Trek The Next Generation?
5. The Manx Gaelic language is native to which island in the British Isles?
6. Mimeographs we’re used to produce what?
7. What is 3 cubed?
8. Which Simpsons character has an 11 letter long first name?
9. Capybaras are the largest living member of which group of mammals?
10. Which has a higher atomic number, silver, gold or platinum?

Answers for 09 September 2021

1. Super Mario
2. Italy
3. Madonna
4. Whoopi Goldberg
5. The Isle of Mann
6. Duplicate documents (they made those purple print outs that people would get at school in the olden days)
7. 27
8. Bartholomew (Bart)
9. Rodents
10. Gold (79, Pt 78, Au 49)

If it hadn’t been for Quizzing-Eye Joe, I’d been married long time ago. 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 Season 3, Episode 22). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. People from which country introduced tempura into Japan in the 1500s?
2. What is a billion micro grams in kg?
3. Lego is a company based in which country?
4. Which pop singer’s first album was self-titled with her real name, Katy Hudson?
5. What is the fourth element of the periodic table?
6. Speaking of four, how many is fourscore?
7. Which has the most vitamin-c per gram out of oranges, kiwifruit and strawberries?
8. Which animal is pictured on the flag of California?
9. Pitcairn island is partially inhabited by the descendants of the mutineers of which Royal Navy ship?
10. What was Michael Jackson’s pet chimpanzee’s name?

Answers for 08 September 2021

1. The Portuguese
2. One kilogram
3. Denmark
4. Katy Perry
5. Beryllium
6. Eighty (score is twenty)
7. Kiwifruit
8. A brown bear
9. The Bounty
10. Bubbles

What do you mean there are other people? I’ve been lead to believe we’re the only ones! 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 Season 3, Episode 21). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Which three countries flags are mixed in to make the Union Jack?
2. Who was Luke Skywalker, in Star Wars, named after?
3. How many total syllables does a haiku contain?
4. What makes monotremes unique amoung mammals?
5. Name one of the two chemical elements with a name beginning with a Y?
6. What happened to New Zealand currency on the 10th of July 1967?
7. How do you say “hello” in Cook Island Māori?
8. Speaking of Cook, what’s the Māori name for the Cook Strait?
9. How many litres are there in 10,000 cubic centimetres?
10. The Downward Spiral is an album by which group?

Answers for 06 September 2021

1. England, Scotland and N. Ireland
2. George Lucas (Luke S.)
3. Seventeen
4. They lay eggs
5. Yttrium/Ytterbium
6. It went decimal
7. Kia Orana
8. Te Moana-o-Raukawa
9. 10
10. Nine Inch Nails (NIN)

Monday, Monday getting’ on down on Monday, everybody’s looking forward to the announcement. 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 Season 3, Episode 20). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. True or false, “ananas” is the French word for banana?
2. Which 1987 Mel Brooks film starring Bill Pullman and John Candy was a parody of Star Wars and other science fiction?
3. Speaking of John Candy, in which country was he born?
4. What is the capital city of Indonesia?
5. In which year was the original iPod released?
6. What is the anti-matter version of an electron?
7. How many seasons were there of the Game of Thrones TV show?
8. Which country’s flag is the silhouette of a two-headed eagle on a red background?
9. What is the name of the cross-shaped button, often used for movement, on game controllers?
10. What is pi to 4 decimal places?

Answers for 06 September 2021

1. False (ananas means pineapple)
2. Spaceballs
3. Canada
4. Jakarta
5. 2001
6. A positron
7. Eight
8. Albania
9. D-pad (short for digital pad)
10. 3.1416

There’s no quiz, but there’s a baboon! 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 Season 3, Episode 19). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Politician Bill Birch was finance minister under which two Prime Ministers?
2. Du Hast was a hit song for which German rock group?
3. Speaking of Haast, where in Aotearoa is the township of Haast?
4. What is the capitals city of Scotland?
5. Is the alcohol we consume in beer methanol, ethanol or pentanol?
6. What date does daylight saving start this year in Aotearoa?
7. What shape is wombat poo?
8. Kiwi John Britten designed racing versions of what vehicle?
9. What is the stage name of Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.?
10. Complete this movie quote ““Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya.”?

Answers for 05 September 2021

1. Jim Bolger and Jenny Shipley
2. Rammstein
3. West Coast of Te Waipounamu
4. Edinburgh
5. Ethanol
6. 26th of September
7. Cubes
8. Motorbikes
9. Snoop Dogg
10. “You killed my father. Prepare to die.”

Did you quiz them Doug? Good. Now we wait. 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 Season 3, Episode 18). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Which country has the longest coastline?
2. In which year did former PM Robert Muldoon die? 1990, 1992 or 1994?
3. In boxing, which weight division is heavier, welterweight or lightweight?
4. Which colours are on the flag of Luxembourg?
5. How many proton are in an atom of Lithium?
6. The Juneteenth national holiday in the USA celebrates what?
7. Which US state has the most southern point?
8. Strombolian is a type of what natural event?
9. “You can’t handle the truth!” is a famous Jack Nicholson line from which 1992 movie?
10. The USSR’s Venera probes landed onwhich planet?

Answers for 04 September 2021

1. Canada
2. 1992
3. Welterweight
4. Red, white and blue
5. Three
6. The emancipation of African-American slaves
7. Hawai’i
8. Volcanic eruption
9. A Few Good Men
10. Venus

Tukino ski field is on which New Zealand mountain? I made a quiz. And I filled it with water. 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 Season 3, Episode 17). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Tukino ski field is on which New Zealand mountain?
2. What language does the word pyjamas come from?
3. True or false, the deathcap mushroom is deadly poisonous?
4. What colour wattle does the North Island Kōkako have?
5. What is 3 orders of magnitude less than one thousand?
6. Australians and Americans call them abalone, what do we in NZ call them?
7. Who authored the His Dark Materials trilogy?
8. What is the stage name of Wu-Tang Clan member Clifford Smith Jr?
9. Former president Richard Nixon died in which year, 1994, 1998 or 2002?
10. Jandal is a portmanteau of which two words?

Answers for 03 September 2021

1. Ruapehu
2. Urdu or Hindi
3. True
4. Blue
5. 1
6. Paua
7. Philip Pullman
8. Method Man
9. 1994
10. Japanese and sandal

My old man’s a quiz man, he wears a quiz man’s hat. 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 Season 3, Episode 16). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Released in 1994, Smash was the first successful album of which band?
2. Balaclavas are named after a town in which country?
3. What is the most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere?
4. What was the first name of Admiral Nelson, who is commemorated with Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar square?
5. The Māori name for Wellington is Pōneke and what other name?
6. In which year did Edmond Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summit Everest?
7. What are the colours of the Danish flag?
8. Complete these Beatles lyrics: “Lady Madonna, children at your feet…”
9. Happy Valley is the learners slope on which New Zealand ski field?
10. Giant, Avanti and Cannondale are all brands of what?

Answers for 02 September 2021

1. The Offspring
2. Ukraine / Crimea
3. Nitrogen
4. Horatio
5. Te Whanganui-a-Tara
6. 1953
7. Red and white
8. “Wonder how you manage to make ends meet”
9. Whakapapa
10. Bicycles

Wake me up, when September ends. Please. 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 Season 3, Episode 15). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Viti Levu is the main island of which Pacific nation?
2. The cats we keep as pets, originated in the wild on which continent?
3. Who played MacGyver in the original 1980s TV series?
4. Pokémon is a portmanteau of which two words?
5. What is traditionally said to be “on fire” when one is accused on lying?
6. Which country was first to land a craft on the moon?
7. Who was Governor of California from 2003–2011?
8. Ambergris, used in making perfume, is produced in the intestines of which kind of animal?
9. Cymru is the native name for which region in Europe?
10. What is the predominant colour of Australian fifty dollar notes?

Answers for 01 September 2021

1. Fiji
2. Africa
3. Richard Dean Anderson
4. Pocket Monsters
5. Ones pants
6. USSR - Luna 9
7. Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger
8. Whales
9. Wales
10. Yellow - nicknamed bananas

Some people call me the quiz cowboy (disclaimer: no one does). 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 Season 3, Episode 14). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Which is longer, a mile or a nautical mile?
2. Tragic Kingdom was the debut album of which band?
3. Which two metals are the Earth’s core mostly made of?
4. In which US State is North America’s tallest mountain?
5. The Good Fight is a spin-off of which other TV show?
6. In French, which direction is gauche?
7. Who stars in the John Wick series of films?
8. Who painted Girl With A Pearl Earring?
9. What was the name of Dorothy’s dog in the Wizard of Oz (and the other Oz books)?
10. Complete these Red Hot Chili Pepper lyrics: “I got a bad disease…”?

Answers for 31 August 2021

1. Nautical mile (1.15 miles)
2. No Doubt
3. Iron and Nickel
4. Alaska - Denali
5. The Good Wife
6. Left
7. Keanu Reeves
8. Johannes Vermeer
9. Toto
10. And from the brain is where I bleed