KIWI KWIZ 2009

Question One: During his recent visit to New York, the Prime Minister.. ?
b) gave a speech at the United Nations and rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange

Question Two: What caused the tsunami that struck Samoa and Tonga on the 30th of September?
c) A massive earthquake in the South Pacific

Question Three: In ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, which line follows ‘Fee-fi-fo-fum’?
d) ‘I smell the blood of an Englishman’

Question Four: What present did the makers of The Simpson Movie give the South Island town of Springfield?
c) A giant pink doughnut

Question Five: In a recent poll, who was surprisingly voted the ‘greatest living New Zealander’?a) Sir Edmund Hillary

Question Six: What do the New Zealand ‘All Whites’ have to do to qualify for the 2010 Football World Cup?
c) Defeat Bahrain in Wellington

Question Seven: Which name comes next in the sequence 'Edward, George, Edward, George..?
d) Elizabeth'

Question Eight: After an eighty year absence, Winnie the Pooh is back in a new book. The title of the book is..?
c) Return to the Hundred Acre Wood


Question Nine: Which of the following claims is false?
a) Dust mites can live for one year without food
b) A female dust mite can lay up to 300 eggs
c) Dust mites eat dead skin cells from humans
d) Dust mites can measure ten centimetres in length

Question Ten: What was the winning score at the 2009 World Hamburger Eating Championship?
a) Two Big Macs and three Whopper burgers eaten in one minute
b) 93 hamburgers consumed in eight minutes