1. In Australia, what four-letter word is commonly used to mean any area away from cities and major towns?
  2. What word can precede rinse, ribbon and duck?
  3. Including the present monarch, how many English kings have had the name Charles?
  4. Lion’s mane, king trumpet, turkey tail and wood ear are types of what?
  5. What is the meaning of indigent: native to a particular place, prone to illness, or penniless?
  6. What exclamation is short for “God’s truth”?
  7. The Waitangiroto Nature Reserve, on the West Coast, is the site of NZ’s only breeding colony of what rare wading bird?
  8. The Maadi Cup is a New Zealand trophy in what sport?
  9. What double-barrelled woman’s name formed the title of a 1965 hit song by the Beach Boys?
  10. The Danube River flows into what body of water?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      













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ANSWERS: 1. The Bush; 2. Blue; 3. Three; 4. Fungus; 5. Penniless; 6. Strewth; 7. The kotuku, or white heron; 8. Rowing; 9. Barbara Ann; 10. The Black Sea.