10 Quick Questions

2017-07-14 - by GABE ATKINSON

1. What is the title of the official newspaper of the NZ Government, published since 1841? ❑ NZ Sentinel ❑ NZ Gazette ❑ NZ Chronicle ❑ NZ Bugle

2. Who became UK Prime Minister in 1945, following his party’s election victory? ❑ Anthony Eden

❑ Clement Attlee

❑ Winston Churchill

❑ Harold Macmillan

3. Which of these literary genres is characterised by the adventures of a roguish but likeable protagonist? ❑ Picaresque

❑ Bildungsroman

❑ Epistolary

❑ Roman à clef

4. Which of these words derives from a Czech term for forced labour?

❑ Robot

❑ Automaton

❑ Machine

❑ Cyborg

5. Who is the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different sciences? ❑ Marie Curie

❑ Albert Einstein

❑ Louis Pasteur

❑ Nikola Tesla

6. What was brought to international attention by Hiram Bingham in 1911? ❑ Terracotta Army

❑ Machu Picchu

❑ Dead Sea Scrolls

❑ Pompeii ruins 7. True or false? In the 1950s, Ford sold a nuclearpowered family car to the public.

❑ True

❑ False

8. Which of these films does

not star Elizabeth Taylor? ❑ Roman Holiday

❑ National Velvet

❑ Cleopatra

❑ Giant

9. True or false? Gremlins originated in medieval European folkore.

❑ True

❑ False

10. What is so delicate that whispering its name will break it?