1. What New Zealand star of the American TV drama series Yellowjackets recently won the Critics’ Choice Award for best actress?
  2. Gold miner Fred Evans was killed during a 1912 strike in which North Island town?
  3. In America, who or what is Mother Jones?
  4. Which country is the world’s largest producer of spices: Indonesia, India or China?
  5. What electorate has deputy prime minister Grant Robertson held since 2008?
  6. Name the year in which John Key resigned as prime minister, New Zealanders voted against changing the flag and the trade union leader Helen Kelly died.
  7. In which town would you find an Anglican school called St Peter’s: Havelock North, Ashburton or Cambridge?
  8. What long-established brand of mouthwash was named after the man who pioneered antiseptic surgery?
  9. In the Beatles’ hit song ‘Penny Lane’, who was selling poppies from a tray?
  10. Greg Yelavich has won 12 Commonwealth Games medals (a New Zealand record) in what sport?

 

 













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ANSWERS: 1. Melanie Lynskey; 2. Waihi; 3. It’s a magazine; 4. India; 5. Wellington Central; 6. 2016; 7. Cambridge; 8. Listerine; 9. A pretty nurse; 10. Shooting;