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CYNICS MIGHT say 2016 was the year the world officially went mad. First there was Brexit. Then there was Trump. And in Australia, Pauline Hanson got back into Parliament. In the meantime we had our own bouts of madness. There was the natural one in Kaikoura, which spread its influence most dramatically to Wellington. As if that wasn’t bad enough, earthquake expert Brian Tamaki had an explanation that led to one gay rights campaigner asking “Was he drunk?” Then there was “celebrity” Max Key offering his advice on what “real men” ride. His father John later came up with an earthquake of his own, which apparently blindsided pretty nearly all of his Cabinet. Sport was more bizarrely insane than usual. Leicester City won the English football Premiership, and baseball’s Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time since 1908 with a script too loony even for Hollywood. And the All Blacks, those paragons of sanity and stability, lost for the first time to Ireland – fittingly in Chicago. To test you on 2016 here are 100 questions from TONY POTTER. As Bette Davis famously said “Fasten your seatbelts.” It could be a bumpy ride.

1 GENERAL NEWS: HERE

1 The biggest lottery prize in our history was struck with a lucky 3, 21, 22, 1, 30, 29 and bonus number 5. What was the ticket worth? 2 What did Auckland Council contractors do to an art installation, depicting homelessness, that had council funding and consent? 3 Police are considering prosecuting someone which, in effect, asks a court to find a person was “scared to death” – true or false? 4 That Kaikoura quake was “violent” and a magnitude what? 5 A bomb found in an attic in a Masterton shop was from World War I, World War II or the Korean War? 6 2 degrees founder Tex Edwards had a laugh with fake shop fronts on a Waiheke Island property last summer proclaiming Louis Vuitton, Prada or Rolex? 7 Batches of which Kiwi icon were recalled in March over choking fears? 8 The Herald called her “perhaps the least well- known person in modern times to be appointed Governor- General”. What’s her name? 9 That flag referendum, which left us with the same flag, cost how much? 10 Studies found Auckland drivers spend the equivalent of how many working days a year stuck in rush hour traffic?

2 GENERAL NEWS : THERE

1 The Bastille Day atrocity by a madman driving a 19- tonne truck killed 86 and wounded 443 in which French city? 2 An attack by a gunman in a popular Orlando, Florida, gay night club that killed 50 and injured 53 was the worst mass shooting by a single gunman in American history – true or false? 3 A sniper killed five police officers and wounded nine more during protests in Dallas, Texas, against what? 4 What did Nazi nutter Thomas Mair do in Birstall, West Yorkshire, prior to the Brexit vote? 5 Which nation, in a defiant fingers- up to the world, launched a long- range rocket into space, breaching who- knows- how- many UN treaties? 6 Where, according to the Los Angeles Times, did “unparalleled savagery and suffering occur” in what one leader called a war by proxy between superpowers Russia and USA? 7 Japanese electronics firm Funai made the world’s last what? 8 The controversial “Jungle” refugee camp – established about 1999 – was finally demolished where? 9 In an Olympics that threatened to be overtaken by Zika- virus withdrawals, a 10- person team of what athletes became the first ever to compete in the Games? 10 Philosophers and scientists had proclaimed 2016 the International Year of Global Understanding – true or false?

5 BUSINESS ( AND MONEY, LOTS OF MONEY):

1 They were called the Panama Papers, and the 11.5 million- plus documents became the biggest financial sensation of the year. What was the name of the company at the heart of the hoo- ha? 2 Which country, said a top PP investigator, was “a really soft touch” for criminals? 3 “Flipping insanity” headlined the Herald over places sold and sold and sold in Auckland in 2015 and 2016. Top of the Insane League was a place in Papakura which sold how many times for a capital gain of $ 255,000? 4 Another Herald inquiry showed speculators making how much a day from these insane profits? $ 800, $ 1200 or $ 1600? 5 CoreLogic researchers’ figures show about how many Aucklanders will desert the city this year for saner pastures – 1200, 2400 or 3600? 6 The FBI and Apple were involved in a legal stoush over unlocking a terrorist’s iPHone 5C. It can be bought here for $ 264, $ 284 or $ 304? 7 Workers at a warehouse in Scotland camped in tents outside the place to avoid commuting costs. Which firm owns it? 8 Who said, of investment: “If you took the 50 largest banks in the world, we wouldn’t even think about probably 45 of them”? 9 A drive around New Zealand by a fleet of McLaren sports cars involved a ding involving a 1994 F1. What was the car valued at? 10 Finally, in the biggest deal in IT history, Dell acquired storage manufacturer EMC for how much? About $ 55 billion, $ 75b or $ 95b?

6 NAMES: NONE FAMOUS, SOME INFAMOUS, WHO ARE THEY?

1 Victor Barrio 2 Lorenzo 3 Niroshan Nawarajan 4 Josie Butler 5 Isabel Spearman 6 Quinton Winders 7 Jeremy Kerr 8 Sherry Papini 9 Atiya Fox 10 Zara Holland

9 ANIMALS: WHY ARE THESE NAMES IN THE NEWS?

1 Theodore Eugene de St Croix, better known as Ted 2 Juma 3 Nandi 4 Lolita 5 Pacer 6 American Pharoah 7 Bonnie and Clyde 8 Alfred 9 Harambe 10 An anonymous snake

10 DEATHS: NAME THE FAMOUS FROM THE CLUES

1 299 2 Hilda Ogden 3 “The Northland kauri tree has fallen.” 4 To Kill A Mockingbird 5 “Dying is expensive. Thank God for Kiwisaver.” 6 “Boxing is a lot of white menwatching two black menbeat each other up.” 7 “Little red Corvette. Baby you’re much too fast.” 8 Van der Hum, 1976. 9 The Modfather 10 And at the end: “I wasn’t really suited to journalism. I was always more interested in the end of the story than the beginning.”