10 Quick Questions

1. Which song was not

a winner at the Eurovision Song Contest?

❑ Waterloo, Abba

❑ Making Your Mind Up,

Bucks Fizz

❑ Beg, Steal or Borrow,

The New Seekers

❑ Puppet on a String,

Sandie Shaw

2. Birds get fresh air while inhaling and exhaling.

❑ True

❑ False

3. Roughly how far is NZ’s Antarctic Scott Base from the US’s McMurdo Station in kilometres?

❑ 3

❑ 24

❑ 86

❑ 120 4. What is a calumet?

❑ Nuclear technology

❑ Native American peace pipe

❑ Defamatory statement

❑ Prison

5. In which century was the electromagnet invented?

❑ 17th

❑ 18th

❑ 19th

❑ 20th

6. A parsec is roughly equal to how many light years?

❑ 2

❑ 3.3

❑ 5

❑ 7

7. Stuart Leslie Goddard is better known as who? ❑ Snoop Dogg

❑ Pitbull

❑ Adam Ant ❑ Bruno Mars

8. Which chemical element’s name means “greenish yellow”?

❑ Chlorine

❑ Fluorine

❑ Sulphur

❑ Bromine

9. What does a Valeriepieris circle indicate?

❑ Area

❑ Population

❑ Number of species

❑ Underground structures

10. What is Helvetia the ancient Roman name for?

❑ Switzerland

❑ France

❑ Spain

❑ Ireland

INEVITABLE OUTCRY

A comment on Mike Lund’s contribution ( Letters, April 6): Lund has a nostalgia for New Zealand the way it was, and says we should give the newly elected government a fair go. But have we ever had an incoming government with such a policy of slash and burn in a cost-of-living crisis, with the loss of jobs and the flow-on effects for so many?

Of course, there will be a public outcry. Not good planning by this Nationalled coalition, whatever their intentions were. If change was inevitable, surely it should be in a more measured way. I say, give the New Zealand public a fair go.

Diane Smither (Waiheke Island)