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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 21). 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.

1. In printing, the four primary ink colours are cyan, magenta, black and what other colour?
2. His first names are Simon William and he was the the Prime Minister of New Zealand. What name is he better known by?
3. Gordon Sumner is better known as whom?
4. What is the third smallest planet in the solar system?
5. What was the magnitude of the 2016 Kairkoura earthquake?
6. How many of Wellington city’s suburbs start with the letter K? 5, 7 or 10?
7. Which came first, the first launch of the US Space Shuttle or the Beastie Boys?
8. Which character had the first spoken line in Star Wars IV A New Hope?
9. A man named Donald Regan was, at one point, which American president’s chief of staff?
10. The characters of Mario and Luigi in the Mario brothers franchise have a last name. What is it?

Answers for 15 April 2020

1. Yellow
2. Bill English
3. Sting
4. Venus
5. 7.8
6. 7 - Kilbirnie, Kandallah, Karaka Bays, Kingston, Kaiwharawhara, Karori and Kelburn
7. The Beastie boys in 1978 (Space Shuttle 1981)
8. C3PO
9. Ronald Reagan’s
10. Mario - Luigi Mario and Mario Mario

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 20). 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.

1. What is the name of Google’s parent company?
2. Who proceeded Robert Muldoon as New Zealand Prime Minister?
3. Grendall and his mother are characters in which epic peom?
4. The Commander Keen, Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein game franchises were creations of which game studio?
5. What was the magnitude of the 2016 Kairkoura earthquake?
6. What is the least densely populated country in the world?
7. What is the name of the creator of Family Guy The Orville and American Dad?
8. Which came first, Nicholas Cage or lasers?
9. Who lead the team who were first to reach the south pole?
10. Without going underground, where is the lowest road in the world?

Answers for 14 April 2020

1. Alphabet
2. David Lange
3. Beowulf
4. id Software
5. 7.8 (bonus for exact, 1 point for anything between 7 and 8)
6. Mongolia
7. Seth MacFarlen
8. Lasers in 1960 (Nicholas Cage in 1964)
9. Roald Amundsen
10. The Dead Sea (in Israel and Jordan) - down to 418 m below sea level

Just had a 9-way video chat with an entire side of my family. We couldn’t use Whatsapp, because it’s limited to 4 people. Tried Google Duo, but the quality was absolute garbage so we switched. Zoom was an option but it’s limited to 40 minutes. We would have used FaceTime, but one member was on Android.

We eventually got going on Facebook Messenger, which worked for everyone (I used m’lady’s account because I’m not on Facebook). Not only was FB messenger video chat limited to 50 people (why is Whatsapp limited to 4!?), but the video and audio was far superior to Google Duo.

It was actually really, really impressive. Shame about who runs it.

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 19). 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.

1. Which city is more populous? Dunedin, Tauranga or Palmerston North?
2. How many seasons of Downton Abbey are there?
3. In the Bible, in what unit of measurement does God specify the dimensions of the Ark to Noah?
4. What was the name of the astronaut who stayed in orbit around the moon during the Apollo 11 mission?
5. Approximately when did Tangata Whenua arrive in Aotearoa?
6. What was the name of Bruce Willis’s character in the Die Hard movie franchise?
7. What is the name given to the last supercontinent in which almost all of Earth’s continents formed a single land mass?
8. What was the name of David Bowie’s last studio album, released two days before his death?
9. The Hateful 8 is what number film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino?
10. Which team was declared the winner of this year’s Plunket Sheild after the season was cut short?

Answers for 13 April 2020

1. Tauranga
2. Six
3. Cubits (the length from your elbow to the end of your middle finger)
4. Michael Collins
5. Around 700 years ago - 1320 to 1350
6. John McClane
7. Pangea
8. Black Star
9. 8th
10. Wellington

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 18). 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. Today is Sunday so it’s themed quiz time. This week’s topic is Star Trek.

1. Leonard Nimoy played which character in the original series?
2. Which Ferengi businessman runs the bar on Deep Space Nine?
3. What was the final Star Trek the Next Generation feature film?
4. What artificial organ does Jean-Luc Picard have?
5. What nickname does Doctor McCoy have in the original series?
6. Speaking of McCoy, which Wellingtonian actor plays Doctor McCoy in the rebooted film series?
7. What is Starfleet’s secret intelligence organisation called? Division 12, Squad 23 or Section 31?
8. Which starship does Captain Kathryn Janeway command?
9. Star Trek the Next Generation, Star Trek Voyager and Star Trek Deep Space Nine all had the same number of seasons, what number is that?
10. Which one-letter character, primarily portrayed by John de Lancie, torments the captains in all three of the previous question’s series?

Answers for 12th of April

1. Spock
2. Quark
3. Star Trek: Nemesis
4. A Heart
5. Bones
6. Karl Urban
7. Section 31
8. USS Voyager - NCC-74656
9. 7
10. Q

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 17). 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.

1. What does the R in the MMR vaccine stand for?
2. How many official languages does Australia have?
3. In which year was the Battle of Hastings?
4. Which early nineties superhero character had sidekicks with superpowers of earth, wind, fire, water or “heart”?
5. Who was the prime minister of the United Kingdom at the time of the Queen’s coronation?
6. Robert Galbraith is the pen name of who?
7. “My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”, is a quote from which movie?
8. Who was the third US president?
9. In space, what colour is the Sun?
10. What was the name of the Nintendo game console released between the N64 and the Wii?

Answers for 11 April 2020

1. Rubella
2. Zero (English is the de facto language)
3. 1066
4. Captain Planet
5. Winston Churchill
6. J. K. Rowling
7. The Princess Bride
8. Thomas Jefferson
9. White - although ever so slightly green
10. The GameCube

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 16). There’s a meta puzzle too, see if you can piece it together from the 3rd to the 22nd of April.

1. Which came first, Twitter or the Opportunity Martian Rover landing on Mars?
2. In what decade was the first episode of Doctor Who broadcast? 1950s, 1960s or 1970s?
3. Name 3 of the 6 US Space Shuttles?
4. What is unique about the Green Gold Fountain in the Slovenian town of Žalec?
5. In which year was the Magna Carta first drafted?
6. What official Star Wars-themed special production, starring the original cast, was released in-between Stars Wars episodes 4 and 5?
7. Which human organ produces insulin?
8. What was the full-time score of the 2019 Men’s Rugby World Cup final between England and South Africa?
9. RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic were two of the three Olympic-class ocean liners. What was the name of the third?
10. Where is Ball’s Pyramid?

Answers for 10 April 2020

1. Opportunity in 2004 (Twitter in 2006)
2. 1960s (1963)
3. Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia, Discovery, Endeavour, Enterprise
4. It’s a beer fountain
5. 1215
6. The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) - look it up on YouTube, it’s embarrassing to watch.
7. The Pancreas
8. 12–32 to South Africa
9. RMS Titanic
10. In the Tasman Sea, just south of Lord Howe Island

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 15). There’s a meta puzzle too, see if you can piece it together from the 3rd to the 22nd of April.

1. What is the name of the largest sand island in the world, which sits off the coast of Queensland?
2. Who wrote the Alphabet series of crime novels?
3. Which came first, Newshub anchor Mike McRoberts or the beginning of Unix time?
4. What kind of animal is New Zealand’s only native land mammals?
5. What is the stage name of Tracy Lauren Marrow?
6. El Capitan is a vertical rock formation in which US national park?
7. Name one of the so-called First Four ships to land European settlers in Canterbury in 1850?
8. Apple Computer was founded by two people called Steve. What were/are their last names?
9. What model terminator did Arnold Schwarzenegger play in the original Terminator movie? T-600, T-800 or T-1000
10. How many time zones does mainland China have?

Answers for 9 April 2020

1. Fraser Island
2. Sue Grafton
3. Mike McRoberts in 1966 (Unix time 1 Jan 1970)
4. Bats
5. Ice-T
6. Yosemite
7. Randolph, Cressy, Sir George Seymour, and Charlotte Jane
8. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
9. T-800
10. 1 (though it spans 5 time zones in surrounding countries)

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 14). There’s a meta puzzle too, see if you can piece it together from the 3rd to the 22nd of April.

1. Alastair Reynolds writes what genre of fiction?
2. Why did the Renaissance artists Raphael and Donatello never meet?
3. What is the collective noun for a group of cockroaches?
4. Who painted The Scream?
5. What is the smallest state in the USA by area?
6. What are the two most common species of cultivated coffee?
7. What was the name of the first Discworld novel, written by Terry Prachett, published in 1983?
8. Which came first, The World Trade Organisation or Justin Beiber?
9. What is the third element on the periodic table?
10. Beer is traditionally brewed with water, yeast and what two other ingredients?

Answers for 7 April 2020

1. Science Fiction
2. Donatello died before Raphael was born
3. Invasion
4. Edvard Munch
5. Rhode Island - it’s half the size of the Wellington region
6. Arabica and Robusta
7. The Colour of Magic
8. Justin Beiber 1994 (WTO 1995)
9. Lithium
10. Malted barley and hops

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 13). There’s a meta puzzle too, see if you can piece it together from the 3rd to the 22nd of April.

1. What is the largest living species of lizard?
2. The Provence of New Munster was the original name for which area of New Zealand?
3. What does the T in James T Kirk, from Star Trek fame, stand for?
4. What temperature is the same Fahrenheit and Celsius?
5. Stefani Germanotta is better known as whom?
6. Street Artist Banksy originated fro which UK city?
7. Wellington’s World of Wearable Art show started in which New Zealand city?
8. How many provinces and territories are there in Canada?
9. In which year did New Zealand hold its first general election using MMP?
10. Which species won Bird of the year in 2019? The Kererū, the Hoiho or the Kea?

Answers for 7 April 2020

1. Komodo dragon
2. The South Island (and Stewart Island)
3. Tiberius
4. -40
5. Lady Gaga
6. Bristol
7. Nelson
8. 13
9. 1996 (the referendum to whether to switch to MMP was held at the 1993 general election)
10. Hoiho (The Yellow-Eyed Penguin)