New Zealand Listener

10 Quick Questions

- by GABE ATKINSON

1. What is the only country in which rugby league is considered the national sport?

Australia

Papua New Guinea Tonga

Lebanon

2. Which group of birds are also known as muttonbird­s? Oystercatc­hers

Petrels

Shearwater­s

Dotterels 3. Which Kiwi band

released the 1986 single I

Love My Leather Jacket? The Chills

The Verlaines The Clean Straitjack­et Fits 4. Which Kiwi cricketer was nicknamed the “Naenae Express”?

Danny Morrison

Ewen Chatfield

Richard Hadlee

Shane Bond

5. On what would you find a Schrader valve?

Steam engine

Tyre

Computer

Toilet

6. True or false? Treadmills were formerly used as a punishment in prisons. True

False

7. True or false? Figs often contain dead wasps.

True

False 8. Who won a record fourth Best Actress Oscar for performing in 1982’s

On Golden Pond? Katharine Hepburn Barbra Streisand Jessica Lange

Meryl Streep

9. Acclaimed US artist James Turrell is known for his use of what?

Animals

Sound

Light

Water

10. In which part of NZ is the world-renowned New Chums Beach?

Fiordland

Coromandel

Bay of Islands

Nelson

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