1.  What is the English translation of the French term “robe de chambre”?
  2. What type of dance is done to music played in three-quarter time?
  3. Which country has the world’s largest population of lions: Kenya, South Africa or Tanzania?
  4. NZ basketball team the Breakers play in what colour?
  5. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea”, C S Lewis’s “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and J R R Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” were published in which decade?
  6. Theophobia is a morbid fear of God – true or false?
  7. What is the term for a building at a cricket ground where players get changed and take refreshment breaks?
  8. What popular classical music composition is divided into sections called La Primavera, L’estate, L’autunno and L’inverno?
  9. What is the term for a padded envelope used to protect fragile items in the mail?
  10. According to the Bible, what did the Ark of the Covenant contain?












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ANSWERS: 1. Dressing gown; 2. A waltz; 3. Tanzania; 4. Pink; 5. The 1950s; 6. True; 7. Pavilion; 8. The Four Seasons, by Vivaldi; 9. Jiffy bag; 10. The two stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written.