• If you would still like to do this latest challenge, scroll down to July 19.

 

• Remember that no correspondence, computers or cell phones may be entered into!

 

• Answers below.

 

1. Lemurs are native to which island? (Madagascar)

 

2. Which Japanese island is furthest south: Kyushu, Honshu or Shikoku? (Kyushu)

 

3. What is known as Old Glory? (The American flag)

 

4. Where will the 2018 Commonwealth Games be held? (The Gold Coast)

 

5. What does the Latin phrase deux ex machina mean? (an unexpected development that solves a problem)

 

6. What was Keith Holyoake’s second name? (Jacka)

 

7. Which artist, along with Georges Braque, pioneered the Cubist style? (Pablo Picasso)

 

8. Lloyd Jones book Mr Pip included readings from which novel by Charles Dickens? (Great Expectations)

 

9. Where would you find an arête? ( In the mountains)

 

10. What do the initials NZEI stand for? (New Zealand Educational Institute)