Five-minute quiz

1. What annual event took place for the first time in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in 1929?

2. In what Asian city did the nerve gas sarin kill 12 subway passengers in 1995?

3. What city was the setting for a 2002 movie in which Daniel DayLewis played a 19th-century gang leader known as Bill The Butcher?

4. What British TV comedy series of the 1980s was inspired by Butlins holiday camps?

5. Which football team is the current champion of the English Premier League: Manchester United or Manchester City?

6. What commonly used cooking ingredient typically includes sodium bicarbonate, cornflour and cream of tartar?

7. Which illness is caused by a bacterium found in soil: cholera, typhoid or tetanus?

8. What New Zealand city has a seaside suburb called Castlecliff?

9. What is the term for a close and long-term biological interaction between two different types of organism?

10. What broadcasting organisation produces the long-running series This Way Up? Anyone wishing to make a complaint to the New Zealand Media Council should first put it in writing to the editor. If not satisfied with the reply, complainants should then write to The Secretary, New Zealand Media Council, Box 10 879, Wellington, including a clipping of the disputed article and copies of the correspondence. Letters are welcome, but writers must provide their name, address and telephone number as a sign of good faith – pseudonyms are not acceptable. So that as many letters as possible can be published, each letter should be no more than 250 words. We reserve the right to edit letters for length, sense, legal reasons and on grounds of good taste. Please send your letters to: The Editor, The Southland Times, PO Box 805, Invercargill; fax on (03) 214 9905; or email to letters@stl.co.nz