Five-minute quiz

1. What country was banished from the Group of Eight advanced economies in 2014, reducing it to the Group of Seven?

2. What brand of tyres took its name from a Japanese city?

3. What All Black captain said to a referee: ‘‘We’re not playing tiddly-winks here, mate’’?

4. What word can precede war, shoulder or comfort?

5. Name the decade in which The Hobbit was published, Gone With The Wind was released and the electric guitar made its first appearance in jazz bands.

6. Entrechat, glissade and plie are terms used in what activity?

7. In a cartoon series created in the 1940s, what was the name of the Friendly Ghost?

8. Who served three months as New Zealand prime minister in 1990?

9. What 2018 movie starring Lady Gaga is the fourth version of a story first brought to the screen in 1937?

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