1. What sport was played in a famous 1973 match billed as “The Battle of the Sexes” and won by a woman?
  2. What American airport originally had the name Idlewild?
  3. Steven Spielberg’s 1987 wartime drama Empire of the Sun was set in what country?
  4. What food colouring is made from the crushed bodies of insects?
  5. The surgical technique called laparoscopy is also known by what layperson’s term?
  6. Sinclair Head, Perano Head and Cape Terawhiti jut into what body of water?
  7. What distinctive surname is shared by an All Black forward and the title character in a long-running British TV comedy series?
  8. Which US president declared a War on Terror?
  9. His surname was Magellan and he was a Portuguese explorer. What was his first name?
  10. Galle, a city noted for its picturesque cricket stadium, is in what country?















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ANSWERS: 1. Tennis; 2. John F Kennedy International airport (New York); 3. China; 4. Cochineal; 5. Keyhole surgery; 6. Cook Strait; 7. Blackadder; 8. George W Bush; 9. Ferdinand; 10. Sri Lanka.