Week in review, quiz style
1. What unspeakable experience lies in wait for visitors Chuck and Mary?
a. Butter chicken
b. NewstalkZB
c. Homeless people
d. Kiwi dudes fullapissmate
e. Butter chicken pie
2. Where is Jacinda Ardern said to be making her new home?
a. Striya Mate
b. Bin Chicken Heights
c. Wagga Wagga
d. NewstalkZB
3. What is the correct name of this bird?
a. Bin Chicken
b. MineMineMine
c. Jonathon Livingston
d. Red-billed Gull / Tarāpunga
4.How many countries currently have government ownership of their national airline?
a. About 25
b. About 50
c. About 100
d. Only the ugly ones
5. What collapsed in 2001 leaving a massive hole in New Zealand’s domestic aviation market that Air New Zealand (with its government lifeline) had to fill?
a. Ansett
b. South Canterbury Finance
c. BNZ
d. Brierley Investments
e. Fay Richwhite
6. What did Andrew Little say after his dip in Lyall Bay?
a. I think I just saw Harold Holt!
b. I was just going through the motions tbh
c. I am perfectly healthy after my swim
d. This fish is perfectly cromulent
7. In what TV series did the word cromulent first appear?
a. The Simpsons
b. Flipper
c. Curb Your Enthusiasm
d. Holmes
8. True or false: Anthropic has until Friday evening to either give the U.S. military unrestricted access to its AI model (meaning they can strip out all its controls and make it do heinous things) or face the consequences
a. Lies bro, we’re not talking about some banana republic, we’re talking about the United States
b. Regrettably true, this is the United States we’re talking about
9. True or false: The Government is currently negotiating an Enhanced Border Security Partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security that would grant US agencies, including ICE, automated, direct access to New Zealanders’ biometric data and identity records.
a. Come on they wouldn’t be so supine
b. They better not be that fucken craven
10. What beloved annual event in Aotearoa just had its last hurrah?
a. Splore
b. Horse beach races in Matamata
c. Dunking for chocolate fish in the bucket fountain
d. Democracy
Answers
1. What unspeakable experience lies in wait for visitors Chuck and Mary?
c. Homeless people, according to everyone’s best mate Chris Luxon. Homeless people, a phenomenon seen nowhere else in the world. For a few more thoughts on this do please stand by for the Sunday sermon.
2. Where is Jacinda Ardern said to be making her new home?
a. Striya Mate
If you really want to read something that’ll make you shake your head, take a look at the RNZ Facebook page for comments along the lines of she’s paying for it with the money she got from her pedo buddy Gates. Fucksake, how do you people walk three steps without falling over?
Anyway, all the best to a fine person who did so much for her country and continues to be treated utterly deplorably.
3. What is the correct name of this bird?
d. Red-billed Gull / Tarāpunga
4.How many countries currently have government ownership of their national airline?
c. About 100
5. What collapsed in 2001 leaving a massive hole in New Zealand’s domestic aviation market that Air New Zealand (with its government lifeline) had to fill?
a. Ansett
6. What did Andrew Little say after his dip in Lyall Bay?
c. I am perfectly healthy after my swim. My swim occurred when the LAWA website showed it was safe to do so.
7. In what TV series did the word cromulent first appear?
a. The Simpsons
8. True or false: Anthropic has until Friday evening to either give the U.S. military unrestricted access to its AI model (meaning they can strip out all its controls and make it do heinous things) or face the consequences
b. Regrettably true, this is the United States we’re talking about
9. True or false: The Government is currently negotiating an Enhanced Border Security Partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security that would grant US agencies, including ICE, automated, direct access to New Zealanders’ biometric data and identity records.
a. Come on they wouldn’t be so supine
b. They better not be that fucken craven
10. What beloved annual event in Aotearoa just had its last hurrah?
a. Splore
Wish you a splendid weekend, see you on Sunday morning :)
