New Zealand Listener

10 Quick Questions

- by GABE ATKINSON

1. True or false? Cow tipping is a form of rural fun in some countries.

❑ True

❑ False

2. Which Italian city is situated near Mt Vesuvius?

❑ Naples

❑ Milan

❑ Palermo

❑ Rome

3. Whose flagship was named Queen Anne’s Revenge?

❑ Blackbeard

❑ Horatio Nelson

❑ William Bligh

❑ Francis Drake

4. Which 90s movie features a character who names himself Dirk Diggler?

❑ Pulp Fiction

❑ Forrest Gump

❑ Boogie Nights

❑ The Usual Suspects

5. In the Arabian

Nights tales, why does Scheheraza­de tell stories for 1001 nights?

❑ To gain immortalit­y

❑ To delay her own execution

❑ To appease a genie

❑ To delight her children

6. Which crime figure was associated with the early developmen­t of the Las Vegas Strip?

❑ John Gotti

❑ Machine Gun Kelly

❑ John Dillinger

❑ Bugsy Siegel

7. What is a popular term for a phenomenon in which a group of people share a false memory?

❑ Trump anomaly

❑ Mandela effect

❑ Clinton paradox

❑ Nixon event 8. True or false? Wild elephants that are near death instinctiv­ely seek out a familial elephant graveyard.

❑ True

❑ False

9. Which song begins, “Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin’ for a train … "?

❑ Born to Run

❑ Me and Bobby McGee

❑ Jolene

❑ Band on the Run

10. Which of these parasitic diseases is close to being globally eradicated?

❑ Malaria

❑ Guinea-worm disease

❑ Sleeping sickness

❑ Toxoplasmo­sis

1. False, the practice of cow tipping is considered an urban legend. 2. Naples. 3. Blackbeard the pirate. 4. Boogie Nights. 5. To delay her own execution. 6. Bugsy Siegel. 7. Mandela effect. This concept is considered to be pseudoscie­nce. 8. False, this is a myth. 9. Me and Bobby McGee, a song performed by many artists, notably Janis Joplin. 10. Guinea-worm disease, or Dracunculi­asis.

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