New Zealand Listener

10 Quick Questions

- by GABE ATKINSON

1. What is a Bristol pound? Dense cake

Currency

Weight

Mug of beer

2. What is the title of Bruce Lee’s last film?

Fist of Fury

Drunken Master

Enter the Dragon

Police Story

3. What does a limnologis­t study?

The brain

Inland waters Cheesemaki­ng

Dreams

4. Who sculpted an iconic bronze statue of David in the 1440s?

Donatello

Michelange­lo

5. Which Cold War theory speculated that if a country was taken over by communism, its neighbours would follow? Domino theory

Card tower theory Bowling pin theory Snooker ball theory

6. True or false? In the film The Godfather, the infamous horse’s head was real.

True

False

7. Where is la Sagrada Família, a famous church and Unesco World Heritage Site?

Lisbon

Mexico City

Naples

Barcelona

8. Who wrote the classic 1963 young-adult novel

A Wrinkle in Time? Anne McCaffrey Madeleine L’Engle Ursula K Le Guin Margaret Atwood

9. What do the Van Allen belts consist of?

Dark matter

Charged particles Asteroids

Space junk

10. Which TV show coined the words “embiggen” and “cromulent” in the same episode?

The Simpsons

Seinfeld

The Office

Frasier

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