1. What New Zealand rugby league star was known in his playing days as the little general?
  2. In what 1991 thriller film did Jodie Foster play a character named Clarice Starling?
  3. In a 3am call to a talkback radio station in 1999, which politician called the host a “little fart” and a “stupid little bastard”: John Banks, Pam Corkery or Winston Peters?
  4. What fruit takes its name from an indentation that resembles a belly button?
  5. What notorious twin brothers ran the Double R Club – a name inspired by their first names – in London’s East End during the 1960s?
  6. In what sport would you hear the terms mulligan, chunk, shank and yips?
  7. What 28-year-old actor died in his bed in New York from a drug overdose in 2008?
  8. In what American city would you find a sports stadium called the Astrodome?
  9. Name the decade in which the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the first Sony Walkman was marketed and Helen Reddy’s I Am Woman became a hit.
  10. Awaroa Inlet and Totaranui Beach are part of which national park?

 


ANSWERS: 1. Stacey Jones; 2. Silence of the Lambs; 3. Winston Peters; 4. The navel orange; 5. The gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray; 6. Golf; 7. Heath Ledger; 8. Houston; 9. The 1970s; 10. Abel Tasman.