Yorrike

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 12). 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, Nintendo (the company), Frank Sinatra or the adoption of the current NZ Flag?
2. The name of the Crown Research Institute NIWA is an acronym for what?
3. What was the first item to be sold on EBay? A broken laser pointer, a ripped Batman comic book or a warped Beatles vinyl LP?
4. Who wrote the story for the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
5. What is the capital city of Kazakstan?
6. What chemical is formed using the Haber process?
7. What is regarded as Wellington city’s oldest suburb?
8. In 1960 the world population reached what numerical milestone?
9. Who played James Bond immediately prior to Pierce Brosnan?
10. Which musician has released albums with names like “Even Worse”, “Running With Scissors” and “Mandatory Fun”.

Answers for 6 April 2020

1. Nintendo in 1889 (NZ Flag 1902, Sinatra b.1915)
2. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
3. A broken laser pointer
4. Ian Fleming
5. Astana
6. Ammonia, from Hydrogen and Nitrogen
7. Thorndon
8. 3 billion
9. Timothy Dalton
10. Weird Al Yankovich

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 11). There’s a meta puzzle too, see if you can piece it together from yesterday until the 22nd of April.

1. What is Principal Skinners real name?
2. Who voices the character Side Show Bob?
3. Who was crack detective Rex Banner’s nemesis?
4. What is Bart Simpson’s middle name?
5. To cover it up, how does Principal Skinner describe the fire in his kitchen to Super Intendant Chalmers
6. Who holds back the electric car and keeps the Martians under wraps?
7. Burns, Smithers and Homer escape the US with a trillion dollar bill by flying to which country?
8. Homer voices which short-lived Itchy and Scratchy character?
9. In which sector of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant does Homer work?
10. What does the leprechaun tell Ralph Wiggum to do?

Answers for 5 April 2020

1. Armin Tamzariam (“Up yours, children!”)
2. Kelsey Grammer
3. The Beer Baron (Homer: “No you won’t!”)
4. Jojo
5. Aurora Borealis (“May I see it?” “Mmm, no.”)
6. The Stone Cutters (“We do!”)
7. Cuba (“You talk’n about Cuba?”)
8. Poochie (“Note: Poochie died on the way back to his home planet”)
9. 7G
10. Burn things (“Burn the house down! Burn them all!”)

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 10).

1. A leveret is the young of what animal?
2. In computer science, what does the acronym FLOPS stand for?
3. What is the largest moon in the solar system?
4. Who wrote the The Southern Vampire Mysteries AKA True Blood book series?
5. In which year was the Mount Erebus disaster?
6. What’s the collective noun for a group of weasels?
7. Star Trek The Next Generation premiered in which decade? 1980s, 1990s or 2000s?
8. In Harry Potter, what are the names of Harry’s parents?
9. Who held the position of Prime Minister of New Zealand the longest?
10. In which English town was William Shakespeare born?

Answers for 3 April 2020

1. Hare
2. Floating Point Operations Per Second
3. Ganymede (Jupiter, most massive and largest diameter)
4. Charlaine Harris
5. 1979
6. A gang or a sneak
7. 1980s (1987)
8. Lilly and James
9. Richard Seddon, 13 years from 1893 to 1906
10. Stratford-upon-Avon

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 9). There’s a meta puzzle too, from today on. See if you can piece it together from today until the 22nd of April.

1. Which planet in the Solar System has the highest density?
2. What is the lowest natural point of elevation in Australia?
3. Which came first, beer or wine?
4. Who wrote the Hunger Games book trilogy?
5. In the movie Office Space, the character Milton is obsessed with which piece of office equipment?
6. Which island was Napoleon exiled to?
7. Who succeeded King Henry the Eighth?
8. The CSI: Crime Scene Investigation series of TV shows all feature a theme song by whom?
9. The first Final Fantasy video game was release on which game console?
10. Which volcano erupted on June 15 1991, producing the second largest eruption in the 20th century?

Answers for 3 April 2020

1. The Earth
2. Lake Eyre
3. Beer ~7500 BCE (Wine ~4000 BCE in Georgia)
4. Susanne Collins
5. A red Swingline stapler
6. Saint Helena
7. Edward VI
8. The Who
9. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1987
10. Mount Pinatubo

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 Quarantine Day 8)

1. How many people have stood on the moon?
2. Who is the president of Puerto Rico?
3. The “Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy” is a series of films written and starring which two actors?
4. What is the announced date of this year’s New Zealand general election
5. What is the the hardest material on the Mohs Hardness Scale
6. Which came first, Ian Mckellen or the Nuclear Weapons?
7. Who painted the Birth of Venus?
8. In which year did the Russian Space station Mir fall back to Earth?
9. What was the name of the car in the 1980s TV show Knight Rider?
10. People known as EGOTs have all won what?

Answers for 2 April 2020

1. 12
2. Donald Trump
3. Simon Pegg & Nick Frost - World’s End, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz
4. September 19
5. Diamond
6. Ian McKellen (1938) vs Trinity 1945
7. Sandro Botticelli
8. 2001
9. KITT
10. An Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony

Every day for the rest of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s.

1. Nathon Fillion, who played Richard Castle in the TV series Castle, starred in which cult science fiction series?
2. The line “Water water all around and not a drop to drink” is from which Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem?
3. What was the name of the first computer to beat a human world chess champion?
4. Which US state’s flag features the Union Jack?
5. Who chairs parliament’s Epidemic Response Committee?
6. The Queen described which year as an annus horribilis due to, among other things, a fire at Windsor Castle and Prince Charles and Diana separating?
7. Why was an Australian astrophysicist, trying to develop a device to prevent people touching their faces, recently admitted to hospital?
8. What is the collective noun for a group of unicorns?
9. What is the world’s third longest river?
10. Which chemical element has the symbol Pb?

Answers for 1 April 2020

1. Firefly
2. Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
3. Deep Blue
4. Hawaii
5. Simon Bridges
6. 1992
7. He had 4 powerful magnets stuck up his nose
8. A blessing
9. Yangtze River
10. Lead,from the Latin plumbum

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🔭🐻🎣☀️😀 🙀🌾🚫⤴️⤵️✅➡️ 🌾🌾🌾 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🔭🐻🎣☀️😀 🙀🏞️🚫⤴️⤵️✅➡️ 🤽🤽‍♀️🤽‍♀️ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🔭🐻🎣☀️😀 🙀🚫⤴️⤵️✅➡️ 🐾🐾🐾 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🔭🐻🎣☀️😀 🙀🌲🚫⤴️⤵️✅➡️ 🌳🏃‍♂️🌲 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🔭🐻🎣☀️😀 🙀🌨️🚫⤴️⤵️✅➡️ 🌨️🌨️🌨️ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🔭🐻🎣☀️😀 🙀🚇🚫⤴️⤵️✅➡️ 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️😯 👃👂👀 🐻❗️ 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️ 🌨️🌨️🌨️ 🌳🏃‍♂️🌲 🐾🐾🐾 🤽🤽‍♀️🤽‍♀️ 🌾🌾🌾 🚪↗️😱↘️🚪↗️🛌 🚫👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🔭🐻📆