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Aotearoa is back in various levels of lockdown. Auckland is at Level 3, and the rest of the country is at Level 2. For now. So here’s a quiz so people have something to look forward to while they’re stuck at home. It’s today’s (Aotearoa Fights Back Day 10). All previous quizzes can be found here quiz!

1. Ten million is how many orders of magnitude more than one hundred?
2. What is the medical term for low blood sugar?
3. A type of marine animal, what is the name of the only named dog in a Shakespeare play?
4. In electrical engineering, what do AC and DC stand for?
5. What is the tallest mountain in the European Alps?
6. Where in the world did the 1988 Piper Alpha oil rig disaster happen?
7. Joan of Arc lived in which century?
8. For which 1997 movie soundtrack did the act doubles of Marilyn Mason and the Sneaker Pimps, Henry Rollins and Goldie, and Slayer and Atari Teenage Riot all have collaborations?
9. Which country is the current Football World Cup champion?
10. Nyctophobia is the fear of what?

Answers for 21 Aug 2020

1. 5
2. Hypoglycaemia
3. Crab (in The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
4. Alternating and Direct Current (nah nah nah nah nah nah nah!)
5. Mont Blanc
6. The North Sea
7. 15th - 1412–1431
8. Spawn - the album was way better than the movie
9. France
10. The dark

Aotearoa is back in various levels of lockdown. Auckland is at Level 3, and the rest of the country is at Level 2. For now. So let’s rip once again so people have something to look forward to while they’re stuck at home. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Fights Back Day 09). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Due to be launched next year, what is the name of NASA’s next space telescope that will super cede Hubble?
2. What number on the pH scale is considered neutral?
3. Which drink was originally marketed as an “Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage”?
4. The Swedish food Surströmming, which is so pungent it often makes people vomit, is made from fermented what?
5. Where are the Islands of Langerhans?
6. New Caledonia and Nova Scotia are both named after what?
7. Who was the mayor of Christchurch when both of the earthquakes struck in 2010 and 2011?
8. How many members are there in the current 52nd parliament?
9. In the animal world, a prehensile is able to do what?
10. Sweden has how many times more deaths per million due to COVID-19 than Aotearoa? 14, 28, 71 or 143?

Answers for 20 Aug 2020

1. The James Webb telescope
2. 7
3. Coca-Cola, maybe because of all the cocaine it contained
4. Herring. Surströmming means “sour herring”
5. In the pancreas
6. Scotland
7. Bob Parker
8. 120 - there’s no overhang seats
9. Grip - like monkey can hang from its tail
10. 143 - 573 vs 4

Aotearoa is back in various levels of lockdown. Auckland is at Level 3, and the rest of the country is at Level 2. For now. So let’s rip once again so people have something to look forward to while they’re stuck at home. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Fights Back Day 08). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Which German car brand translates as People’s Car?
2. What happens to the Greek aniseed spirit ouzo if you add water to it?
3. Who designed the Barcelona cathedral Sagrada Família?
4. Which country won the first recognised international cricket test match?
5. Mary Ardern was the mother of which famous playwright?
6. On which continent is Queen Maud Land?
7. What is the shortest verse in the Bible?
8. A flood of what foodstuff killed 21 and injured over 150 in Boston on January 15 1919?
9. Michael Hutchence was the front man for which Australian rock band until his death in 1997?
10. Dennis Tito the first commercial tourist to visit where?

Answers for 19 Aug 2020

1. Volkswagon
2. It turns cloudy
3. Antoni Gaudí
4. Australia (v England) by 45 runs in 1877
5. William Shakespeare
6. Antarctica (Norwegian territory)
7. “Jesus wept”
8. Molasses (Great Boston Molasses Flood)
9. INXS
10. Space (the ISS)

Aotearoa is back in various levels of lockdown. Auckland is at Level 3, and the rest of the country is at Level 2. For now. So let’s rip once again so people have something to look forward to while they’re stuck at home. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Fights Back Day 07). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Also the name of a planet, who was the messenger of the Gods in Roman mythology?
2. What was the nationality of optical illusion illustrator MC Escher?
3. Bauxite is the ore of which elemental metal?
4. What colour is zero on a roulette table?
5. Speaking of colours in games, what colour are the hotels in Monopoly?
6. Timbuktu is in which African country?
7. From which Will Ferrel movie is the line “I love lamp”?
8. What is iron oxide better known as?
9. Which sample food has the scientific name Oryza sativa?
10. Galaxy, Citra, Amarillo and Pacific Gem are all varieties of what?

Answers for 18 Aug 2020

1. Mercury
2. Dutch
3. Aluminium
4. Green
5. Red
6. Mali
7. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
8. Rust
9. Rice
10. Hops

Aotearoa is back in various levels of lockdown. Auckland is at Level 3, and the rest of the country is at Level 2. For now. So let’s rip once again so people have something to look forward to while they’re stuck at home.

Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Fights Back Day 06). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. In which 1992 film did Denzel Washington play the titular role of a prominent civil rights activist?
2. What is the capital of Jordan?
3. Which boxer described himself as being “So mean, I make medicine sick”?
4. Software engineer Margaret Hamilton led a team that developed software for which highly successful US government project?
5. The Arno River runs next to which famous Italian building?
6. What is the hardest substance in the human body (get your mind out of the gutter)?
7. What is the new election date for the New Zealand general election?
8. In Hamlet, what is Hamlet’s mother’s name?
9. Which French region does claret wine traditionally come from?
10. In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a chimera which was half man and half what?

Answers for 17 August 2020

1. Malcolm X
2. Amman
3. Muhammad Ali
4. The Apollo program
5. The Leaning Tower of Pisa
6. Tooth Enamel
7. 17th of October
8. Gertrude
9. Bordeaux
10. Bull

Aotearoa is back in various levels of lockdown. Auckland is at Level 3, and the rest of the country is at Level 2. For now. So let’s rip once again so people have something to look forward to while they’re stuck at home.

Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Fights Back Day 03). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Which New Zealand city did the New York Times recently incorrectly label New Zealand’s capital?
2. In mathematics, the square root of -1 is given which single letter value?
3. What is a Raspberry Pi (no e on the end)?
4. Which has more caffeine, a gram of coffee or a gram of black tea?
5. In the game Go, what colours, traditionally, are the stones, or playing pieces?
6. Speaking of games with black and white pieces, what does a chess player signify when they knock over their own king?
7. Which element, named after a New Zealander, has the chemical symbol Rf?
8. Which international women’s world cup, originally planned to take place in NZ in 2021, has been moved to 2022?
9. Due to the pandemic, which high budget Disney film has recently bypassed the cinemas and gone straight to Disney’s streaming service?
10. Which state of the USA was Harley-Davidson founded in? Alabama, South Dakota or Wisconsin?

Answers for 14 August 2020

1. Auckland
2. i
3. A brand of tiny computers
4. Tea!
5. Black and white
6. Surrender
7. Rutherfordium, after Sir Ernest Rutherford
8. The Women’s Cricket World Cup
9. The live action Mulan
10. Wisconsin

How long will we be down in the lock? Who knows!? Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Fights Back Day 02). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. With an installed capacity of 22 gigawatts, which dam is the world’s biggest power station?
2. How many live action Star Wars movies have been made so far?
3. What has recently been discovered on the dwarf planet Ceres by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft?
4. In which year did former prime minister Robert Muldoon die?
5. Who authored the children’s books The Gruffalo, The Snail and the Whale and Room on the Broom?
6. Wellington’s tram network was decommissioned in which year? 1964, 1968 or 1972?
7. In the military and the title of the TV show, what does MAS*H stand for?
8. British-American entrepreneur Jimmy Wales co-founded which influential web site?
9. What happened to New Zealand’s currency on the 10th of July 1967?
10. The word robot is derived from the Czech word robota, meaning what?

Answers for 13 August 2020

1. The Three Gorges Dam in China
2. 11 – The 9 Skywalker saga films, Rogue One and Solo
3. Salt water on the surface and below the crust
4. 1992
5. Julia Donaldson
6. 1964
7. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
8. Wikipedia (thanks from all the quiz masters, Jimmy!)
9. It switched to decimal, introducing the New Zealand dollar.
10. Serf labour or drudgery

Aotearoa is back in various levels of lockdown. Auckland is at Level 3, and the rest of the country is at Level 2. For now. So, may as well dust off my quizzing hat and let rip once again so people have something to look forward to while they’re stuck at home.

Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Fights Back Day 01). All previous quizzes can be found here.

1. Defenestration is the act of doing what?
2. How many species of hominins are there?
3. The unicorn is the nation animal of which country?
4. How many days did New Zealand record no community transmission of Covid-19 before Aug 11th?
5. How old was Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated in1865? 46, 50 or 56?
6. Titus Williver plays the titular character of which Amazon Prime series based on a series of Michael Connelly?
7. Who is the author of the fictional autobiography Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
8. Which Japanese company has recently ceased making laptop computers after 35 years?
9. In which year was the original iPad launched?
10. How many floors does Dubai’s Burj Khalifa have? 124, 163 or 202?

Answers for 12 August 2020

1. Throwing something out of a window
2. 3 - chimpanzees, bonobos and humans
3. Scotland
4. 102
5. 56, b. 1809
6. Bosch
7. Robert M. Pirsig
8. Toshiba
9. 2010
10. 163, 154 inhabited and 9 maintenance floors