5 minute quiz

1. Which cabinet minister is a former executive director of Oxfam New Zealand?

2. Which 20th-century world statesman had a wife named Raisa?

3. What unusual skill was possessed by an elephant named Dumbo, title character of an animated Disney movie of 1941?

4. What is the profession of Englishman Sir Simon Rattle?

5. What was the full name of the longestablished British music newspaper – now a website – known as the NME?

6. Systolic and diastolic are measurements of what?

7. He was given the first name Eldrick, but the world knows him by what nickname?

8. What was the colour of Queen Elizabeth I’s hair?

9. What best-selling novel and TV series is set in an oppressive theocratic country named Gilead?

10. Which European power was defeated in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954?