1. How many countries are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: five, seven or 12?
  2. What battery maker uses a mechanical toy rabbit in its TV commercials?
  3. Australian academic Rachael Gunn, who famously competed at the Paris Olympics, uses what stage name?
  4. In which decade did New Zealand’s population pass 3 million?
  5. What common experience linked the main characters in the 1978 film The Deer Hunter?
  6. Where in Sydney is the El Alamein Fountain?
  7. The 1998 agreement that ended “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland took its name from the holiday on which it was signed. What was it?
  8. Catherine the Great ruled what country?
  9. Complete the first line from a famous love poem by Shakespeare: “Shall I compare thee to a …?”
  10. Nobby Clark is the mayor of what New Zealand city?















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ANSWERS: 1. Five; 2. Energiser; 3. Ray Gun; 4. The 1970s; 5. The Vietnam War; 6. Kings Cross; 7. Good Friday; 8. Russia; 9. Summer’s day; 10. Invercargill.