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  The eighth quiz of 2018.

 

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

 

• Answers on Sunday.

 

1. What is a billabong?

 

2. Which 20^th century US president had the middle name Milhous?

 

3. Bob Jones recently wrote: …as there are no full-blooded Māoris in existence it indisputably follows that had it not been for migrants, mainly Brits, not a single Māori alive today … would have existed. Right or wrong?

 

4. Who is the Minister for Civil Defence?

 

5. In a southern hemisphere cyclone the winds move around the centre in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction?

 

6. Barnaby Joyce is the leader of which Australian political party?

 

7. Which winter Olympic sport features a twizzle?

 

8. Which Maori chief who fought against the government in the New Zealand Wars later became friends with Governor Grey?

 

9. What is New Zealand’s second highest mountain?

 

10. The huon pine is native to which Australian state?