kiwi quiz 2009

week 8

question One: What did a cleaner at Auckland Airport find in an aeroplane’s rubbish bin last Thursday?

d) A newborn baby

Question Two: For winning the 2009 New Zealand Vegemite Spelling Bee, Christopher Jury of Hamilton Boys High School gets..?

c) the chance to compete in a spelling bee in the U.S.A. and three thousand dollars worth of dictionaries

Question Three: Which New Zealand city is known as ‘The Edinburgh of the South’?

b) Dunedin

Question Four: What is unique about one of the models that appeared at the recent Tokyofashion show?

d) She is a robot

Question Five: Taste buds are arranged into five groups, including..?

c) salty, sweet, bitter and sour

Question Six: What sparked a Tsunami warning for New Zealand last week?

a) An earthquake near Tonga

Question Seven: Where does ‘Today’ come before ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Tomorrow’?

c) The Oxford English dictionary

Question Eight: Complete the proverb, ‘People in glass houses..?

d) shouldn’t throw stones’

Question Nine: Who named more than twenty cities after himself?

a) Alexander the Great

Question Ten: Which creature’s name comes from the Maori word for ‘The God of Ugly Things’?

D) the weta