Manawatu Standard

Five-minute quiz

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1. Name the decade in which the classic movie Citizen Kane was released, the sound barrier was broken for the first time and George Orwell wrote Nineteen

Eighty-four.

2. What lower North Island town calls itself the Huntaway Capital of the World?

3. In which English city would you find the Ashmolean Museum, the Sheldonian Theatre and the Bodleian Library?

4. Where would you see loops, whorls and arches?

5. Clark Gable, Marlon Brando and Mel Gibson all played which historical figure in movies?

6. What is a Jensen Intercepto­r?

7. Is the musical instrument known as the marimba classified as percussion, brass or stringed?

8. In Ma¯ori mythology, who is the god of earthquake­s and volcanoes? 9. What movie cop boasted that his .44-calibre Magnum revolver was the most powerful handgun in the world?

10. Who would make an ex cathedra announceme­nt: a judge, a monarch or the Pope?

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