Bumper Easter Quiz

Section 1 Occupations

1 Which former Baptist missionary turned businessman is credited with creating modern tourism?

2 A 1944 plane crash in the English Channel claimed the life of which big-band leader and trombonist?

3 Who survived a tempestuous 60s duo with Ike and had a string of hits in the 80s and 90s?

4 Who was forever known for her role as Princess Leia in the 1977 Star Wars film?

5 Which former Taranaki player has coached the Chiefs’ Super Rugby team since 2018?

6 The women’s movement in England was said to be totally against which British Prime Minister?

7 In 1971, which astronaut hit two golf balls while on the Moon?

8 Who is the son of James and Lily and is married to Ginny?

9 Which cricketer became New Zealand’s highest test run scorer in 2020?

10 Who has been a British MP, best-selling novelist, jailed for perjury, and a Lord since 1992?

Section 2 Homophones

(Words not the same) that sound the same but are

1 What stand is a coffin a type is of place alcohol on? and the

2 What cathedral is a priest and an attached old weapon to a of war?

3 What and an is association ‘to cover with of medieval gold’ craftsmen or merchants?

4 What is an item of clothing and units of heredity transmitted from parent to offspring?

5 What is a seaside golf course and a wild cat with a short tail and tufted ears?

6 What is ‘dignified and serious’ and ‘remained in place’?

7 What is a wooden harness for oxen and part of an egg?

8 What is one twentieth of a ream of paper, and a group of musicians?

9 What is the largest member of the deer family, and a dessert?

10 What is a temporary halt to pay increases or hiring staff, and a sculptured band between an architrave and cornice?

Section 3 Household items

1 What ministers is a group who work of senior closely with a prime minister?

2 What vertical is information and horizontal set rows out in and columns?

3 Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson was outstanding in what field of dance?

4 A steak stuffed with oysters is described as what on a menu?

5 In music, what Italian term describes a soft or quiet passage?

6 A person who doesn’t complain despite repeated inconsiderate treatment from others is colloquially known as . . . ?

7 What is created when the roof of a cave collapses, exposing the underground cavern?

8 What’s the link between chef Gordon Ramsay and an area of Manhattan which was home to poor and working class Irish Americans?

9 Which area of Britain, now a city, was called Aquae Soulis by the Romans?

10 What kind of electromagnetic radiation was first detected by Heinrich Hertz in 1888?

Section 4 Birds

1 crimefighting Dick under Grayson what duo? name is better as part known of a

2 What is the name of the lawyer who is a central character in To Kill A Mockingbird?

3 Which was created British by publishing three brothers house in 1935?

4 In under golf, par what on is one a score hole? of three

5 What Frasier is and the surname Niles in the of TV brothers series Frasier?

6 Classified as a ‘supermini’, what car has Suzuki been making since 1983?

7 In which film, winner of a Best Picture Oscar, did Jack Nicholson play a patient in a mental institution?

8 Which Rolls-Royce engine, given the same name as a species of hawk, powered the Spitfire during World War 2?

9 What was the name of the manned module which landed on the Moon in 1969?

10 What was the middle name of Captain Robert F Scott, who died with his entire party after reaching the South Pole in 1912?

Section 5 Begins with S

1 Which between former Guyana Dutch and colony French lies Guiana?

2 Which New Zealand town has 67 streets named after Shakespearean characters?

3 In astronomy, what is a celestial body which is in the orbit of a larger one?

4 What 11-letter word means ‘accidental good fortune’?

5 Natalie Rooney is the only New Zealander to win an Olympic medal in which sport?

6 Which 2011-2013 leader of the Labour Party now runs the UN’s peace keeping mission in South Sudan?

7 Who started out as Krusty the Clown’s assistant and became Bart Simpson’s arch-enemy?

8 Which element is represented by the letters Ag?

9 What is a tooth on the rim of a wheel for engaging the chain?

10 Who was Agent Mulder’s FBI colleague on The X-Files?