1. What real-life London pub band was celebrated in a Dire Straits hit song of 1978?
  2. Who controversially won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016?
  3. An orphan named Kimball O’Hara is the central character in what Rudyard Kipling novel with a one-word title?
  4. What bird is associated with the Tower of London?
  5. Russian thistle, a plant that has become emblematic of the arid American West, is better known by what name?
  6. In London, what are the Garrick, the Sloane and Boodle’s?
  7. Who wrote and sang the line “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one”?
  8. In what town would you find Central Hawke’s Bay College?
  9. What is significant about the sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”?
  10. What word can follow anchor, supply and food?













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ANSWERS: 1. The Sultans of Swing; 2. Bob Dylan; 3. Kim; 4. The raven; 5. Tumbleweed; 6. Private clubs; 7. John Lennon; 8. Waipukurau; 9. It contains all the letters in the alphabet; 10. Chain.