KIWI KWIZ 2009

Question One: What did a cleaner at Auckland Airport find in an aeroplane’s rubbish bin last Thursday?
a) Enough uranium to make a nuclear bomb
b) A briefcase full of one hundred dollar bills
c) Ten poisonous snakes
d) A newborn baby

Question Two: For winning the 2009 New Zealand Vegemite Spelling Bee, Christopher Jury of Hamilton Boys High School gets..?
a) one thousand tubs of vegemite and six hundred loaves of bread
b) two years off school and a walk-on part in Shortland Street
c) the chance to compete in a spelling bee in the U.S.A. and three thousand dollars worth of dictionaries
d) a trip around the world and the opportunity to be Prime Minister of New Zealand for one day

Question Three: Which New Zealand city is known as ‘The Edinburgh of the South’?
a) Nelson
b) Dunedin
c) Wellington
d) New Plymouth

Question Four: What is unique about one of the models that appeared at the recent Tokyofashion show?
a) She is seventy two years old
b) She designs her own outfits
c) She is seven-feet tall
d) She is a robot

Question Five: Taste buds are arranged into five groups, including..?
a) spicy, fizzy, bitter and sour
b) hot, cold, bitter and sour
c) salty, sweet, bitter and sour
d) Eastern, Western, bitter and sour

Question Six: What sparked a Tsunami warning for New Zealand last week?
a) An earthquake near Tonga
b) The fallout from the global recession
c) The collapse of an iceberg in Antarctica
d) A massive whale stranding near the Equator

Question Seven: Where does ‘Today’ come before ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Tomorrow’?
a) Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory
b) Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
c) The Oxford English Dictionary
d) The Wonderful World of Disney

Question Eight: Complete the proverb, ‘People in glass houses..?
a) should wear clothes’
b) should buy curtains’
c) shouldn’t complain about the weather’
d) shouldn’t throw stones’

Question Nine: Who named more than twenty cities after himself?
a) Alexander the Great
b) George Washington
c) Donald Trump
d) Robert Mugabe

Question Ten: Which creature’s name comes from the Maori word for ‘The God of Ugly Things’?
a) The Tuatara
b) The Kangaroo
c) The Takahe
d) The Weta