10 quiz questions to kick off your week – Scroll to the bottom for the answers
  1. What element is combined with iron to produce steel?
  2. Scallions or green onions are more typically known in NZ as what?
  3. Shadowfax is the horse belonging to which fictional wizard?
  4. What country was named British Honduras before its name change in 1973?
  5. What ancient writer is credited with writing The Odyssey and The Iliad ?
  6. What is 60% of 20?
  7. Cerulean and cobalt are shades of what colour?
  8. Which two football clubs have each won a record 20 English league titles?
  9. Where did Bryan Adams buy his “first real six-string”, in the song Summer of ’69?
  10. Along with Sir Edmund Hillary, who else reached the peak of Mount Everest in 1953?

Answers:

  1. Carbon
  2. Spring Onions
  3. Gandalf
  4. Belize
  5. Homer
  6. 12
  7. Blue
  8. Liverpool and Manchester United
  9. Five and dime
  10. Tenzing Norgay