At long last — the Quiz answers for last week

1. Which long-running American television show had a character called Fonzie? — ‘Happy Days’

2. The tstese fly is the cause of which African disease? — African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness

3. Australian Bill Leak was best known as an artist, a cartoonist or a writer? — Cartoonist

4. The Coit Tower is located in which American city? — San Francisco

5. The eruption of which mountain in 1815 caused the Northern Hemisphere “year without a summer” in 1816? —  This was caused by the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia.

6. Name the New Zealander who wrote the book Other People’s Wars. — Nicky Hager

7. The name of Russian Sergei Magnitsky features in an American piece of legislation. True or false? — True.  The Magnitsky Act is a bipartisan bill passed by the U.S. Congress and President Obama in late 2012 to punish Russian officials responsible for the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow prison in 2009.

8. In addition to being tilted on its axis, what aspect of the Earth’s movement causes the changing seasons? — Rotation around the Sun — The seasons are caused by the tilt of the Earth’s rotational axis away or toward the sun as it travels through its year-long path around the sun.
   

9. Which two bones link the knee with the foot? — Tibia and Fibula.

10. In the Marty Robbins song where did he fall in love with a Mexican girl? —  El Paso