THE TOP 10

1. In which decade did Chinese gooseberries get renamed as kiwifruit?

2. Who directed The Godfather?

3. What is the largest of the tree-dwelling apes? 4. Who defined democracy as ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’?

5. Only one New Zealand university offers a degree in veterinary science: which one?

6. The distance between the two rails of a railway track is called what?

7. In which country is Lake Titicaca, the world’s highest navigable lake?

8. Which Nobel prize-winning writer shot himself in 1961?

9. How many cubic centimetres are in one cubic metre?

10. In tennis, who is the youngest ever women’s No 1?

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