1. What country was the birthplace of the Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the novelist Ayn Rand and the songwriter Irving Berlin?
  2. Where in New Zealand would you see the Mine Bay rock carvings?
  3. The American Kelly Slater has been crowned world champion 11 times in what sport?
  4. What word can precede country, tongue or ship?
  5. What singer won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1987 film Moonstruck?
  6. What two-word Italian phrase means “spoken quietly as if not to be overheard”?
  7. On which continent would you find the world’s most remote functioning post office?
  8. Nissan cars were originally sold in NZ under what brand name?
  9. Who was the first female MP to wear a moko in Parliament?
  10. What fictional character was raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent?

 















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ANSWERS: 1. Russia; 2. Lake Taupo; 3. Surfing; 4. Mother; 5. Cher; 6. Sotto voce; 7. Antarctica; 8. Datsun; 9. Nanaia Mahuta; 10. Superman (Clark Kent).