1. Which is the only one of the following countries that has snakes: Ireland, Greenland, Finland or Iceland?
  2. What song by the Beatles had the subtitle This Bird Has Flown?
  3. What famous waterfront street in Monterey, California, took its name from the title of a 1945 novel by John Steinbeck?
  4. In normal circumstances, British governments are elected for how many years?
  5. In which decade did the first Batman comic appear?
  6. If you crossed the Whangamoa and Rai saddles, what provincial centres would you be travelling between?
  7. How many US states have names beginning with W?
  8. Who sang the words “If you’re looking for trouble, you came to the right place” (a line often quoted by Winston Peters)?
  9. In which century did Scotland and England unite to form the UK?
  10. Professor Anne-Marie Brady of Canterbury University is considered a leading academic authority on what subject?















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ANSWERS: 1. Finland; 2. Norwegian Wood; 3. Cannery Row; 4. Five; 5. The 1930s; 6. Nelson and Blenheim; 7. Four (Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming); 8. Elvis Presley; 9. The 18th; 10. China.