5 minute quiz

1. American TV host and animal rights activist Bob Barker gave his name to a ship operated by what conservation organisation?

2. What is the term for the small disk that serves as a ball in ice hockey?

3. Is Grana Padano a type of grain, cheese or bread?

4. Which Australian actor made his last screen appearances in The Dark Knight and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus?

5. What small pastry cake shares its name with a Northern England town and a character in the BBC’s The Goon Show?

6. Who’s oldest: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis or John Travolta?

7. Which New Zealand cabinet minister shares his surname with an orchard district near Hastings?

8. Where would you encounter an iambic pentameter: In architecture, poetry or geometry?

9. Tu¯ rangawaewae Marae, headquarters of the Ma¯ ori King movement, is in what town?

10. What popular wine brand takes its name from a bay in Marlborough’s Port Underwood?