POLITICS

1. Who was “Parliament’s happy nowhere man” because he was the only politician whose fate wasn’t in the hands of Winston Peters?

2. Look at New Zealand Parliament’s website and on the coloured seating plan, one red dot for a Labour MP is on the same side of the House as the Opposition’s blue dots. Who sits in this hostile environment?

3. “Busy with disability meetings in Auckland — rather be out on the harbour” — who is tweeting?

4. Name the politician — he died in June — whose 16-year reign as Chancellor of Germany was the longest since Bismarck’s.

5. “Time magazine — I have been on their cover, like 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine.” Donald Trump is wrong — who holds the record?

6. Sticking with POTUS, what’s the last word from the Tweet he failed to complete: “Despite the constant negative press …”?

7. Which other leader wore a bracelet featuring the artist Frida Kahlo, who the Guardian cattily described as “The signed-up member of the Mexican Communist Party who dated Trotsky”?

8. The most notable Aussie caught up in the citizenship snafu, Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce, was born in New South Wales, brought up there and served in the Australian Army. But that can’t be true, can it?

9. In the overpayments of super to Winston Peters — an issue that looks like running a long, long time — who were the National ministers briefed by civil servants under the “no surprises” policy?

10. Who sniffed “It’s not our job to make this place run”?