We are more open to being shamed because ... per capita our performance has been particularly bad.

Five minute quiz

1. Which two former MPs – one Labour, one National – formed the ACT Party in 1993?

2. ‘‘Remuera tractor’’ is a slang term for what?

3. What New Zealand business entrepreneur and knight was once the lead singer in the 1970s pop band the Kal-Q-Lated Risk? 4. What do the initials of US government agency the CDC stand for?

5. What New Zealand city was the birthplace of Australian broadcaster Derryn Hinch, musician Midge Marsden and politician Andrew Little?

6. The Piako River empties into which body of water: the Bay of Plenty, Manukau Harbour or the Firth of Thames?

7. What high office is held by Joe Williams, Ellen France and Ellen Glazebrook?

8. What word can precede magic, hole or stump?

9. In the nursery rhyme Three Blind

Mice, who used a carving knife to cut off the mice’s tails?

10. In women’s fashion, distressed boyfriend is a style of what?