January Trivia '10

1. What TV series is set at Sun Hill Police Station? 1 point

2. Which prestigious US university did actor Matt Damon attend, but not graduate from: a) Harvard; b) Yale; c) Princeton; d) Columbia? 2 points

3. What is the smallest mammal in the world: a) western harvest mouse (above); b) numbat; c) pygmy marmoset; d) bumblebee bat? 1 point

4. Which city was devastated by an earthquake in 1985, and then hosted the FIFA World Cup in 1986? 1 point

5. What company produced the first widely released digital camera with an LCD monitor in 1995: a) Sony; b) Nikon; c) Minolta; d) Casio? 1 point

6. What are you afraid of if you suffer from “clinophobia”? 2 points

7. What two countries border Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere? 2 points

8. What does Ferrari’s Testarossa translate to mean? 1 point

9. What computer company was named after a founder’s memories of a summer spent in an Oregon orchard? 1 point

10. Who wrote the novel Seven Little Australians: a) Katharine Susannah Pritchard;
b) Dorothea Mackellar;
 c) Miles Franklin;
d) Ethel Turner? 1 point

11. Who was “Addicted to Love” in the 1980s? 1 point

12. Which New Zealand town lies on the Waikato River?:

a) Whakatane;
b) Cromwell; c) Hamilton; d) Roxburgh? 1 point

13. What is the main ingredient in a baba ganoush dip? 1 point

14. Who said of the credit crisis: “If no-one understood that capitalism is destroying the planet, then major problems will go unresolved.” a) Fidel Castro; b) Evo Morales; c) Subcomandante Marcos; d) Naomi Klein? 2 points
 

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