10 Quick Questions

1. True or false? The resting place of Karl Marx has an entry fee.

True

False

2. Which Kiwi author wrote the Mrs. Wishy-Washy series of children’s books?

Margaret Mahy

Lynley Dodd

Joy Cowley

Gavin Bishop

3. Which film features the line “Well, you get what you settle for”?

Misery

The Iron Lady

Erin Brockovich

Thelma & Louise

4. Kiwi Wayne Gould was listed in Time’s 100 most influential people of 2006 for popularising what?

Sudoku

Speed dating

Segways

Crocs

5. What is a bustard?

Bird

Brassiere

Bully

Believer

6. The name of which royal house is associated with a lower jaw deformity?

Stuart

Habsburg

Windsor

Hanover

7. Which of these novels was written by Boris Pasternak and first published in 1957?

Doctor Zhivago

Anna Karenina

The Brothers Karamazov

Crime and Punishment

8. Which star had a No 1 hit as a child with the single Fingertips?

Julie Andrews

Stevie Wonder

Michael Jackson

Shaun Cassidy

9. True or false? The pound sterling is the world’s oldest currency still in use.

True

False

10. The opposite condition to hoarding disorder is known as compulsive …?

Disposal

Discarding

Decluttering

Destroying

1. True. Marx is buried in a section of London’s Highgate Cemetery that requires an entry fee.

2. Joy Cowley.

3. Thelma & Louise.

4. Sudoku.

5. Bird.

6. The Habsburg jaw was believed to be a

result of dynastic inbreeding.

7. Doctor Zhivago.

8. Stevie Wonder.

9. True, the pound sterling dates back to the

8th century.

10. Decluttering.