Week in review, quiz style
1. Who was said to be HM Queen Elizabeth Two’s favourite child?
a. Andrew
b. Charles
c. Anne
d. Æthelstan
e. Bertie the Corgie
f. Oh sorry Edward, didn’t see you over there
2. Chris Luxon says he used to pester his olds to let him stay up late for the State of Origin. What are other things 18 year olds used to love to do in 1988?
a. Bounce on your dad’s knee until it needs replacing
b. Eat so many ice creams at McDonald’s you puke in the car
c. Sit in the car in the garage holding the wheel and go vroom vroom vroom and point your finger at cyclists and go pew pew pew
d. Sit at a big desk in the Beehive and pretend to be Prime Minister
3. Chris Bishop caving on PC120 Auckland housing intensification marks a rare fail apart from what?
a. Getting creamed by Winston as campaign manager of an easily winnable by-election
b. Getting owned by Ginny Anderson in a video stunt gone wrong
c. Striking out in a Luxon spill that went nowhere
d. Sitting on his Dad’s knee at the Taxpayers Union’s first hot tub party
e. All of the above
4. A very interesting and constructive document about our future was released this week by whom?
a. Infrastructure Commission
b. Ministry for the Environment
c. Chris Luxon’s Tik Tok crew
d. Stephen Joyce at $50 per word
5. The government has introduced legislation to abolish what?
a. Infrastructure Commission
b. Ministry for the Environment
c. Chris Luxon’s Tik Tok crew
d. Stephen Joyce at $50 per word
6. What is meant by Going Misère?
a. Throwing a pity party
b. Trying to lose every single trick
c. Tricking someone into a pity party
d. Tricking the voters
7. What do you call tanking the economy, doing nothing about climate change, abolishing MFE and filling Tik Tok with inanities?
a. Staying up late
b. Getting back on track
c. Governing with a laser focus
d. Going Misère
8. Can you think of one area left unscathed in this country by disastrous climate change events?
a. Nope, you got me there Dave
b. Don’t think so
c. Hamilton?
d. Definitely not Te Tai Rāwhiti, poor buggers
9. What has been given a one year extension?
a. Te Huia inter-regional passenger train
b. 18 year olds wanting to bounce in their Dad’s lap
c. Redactions of the word Trump in the Epstein files
d. Cook Strait ferry announcement
10. The subject of this song is my arrival. I prefer a more relaxed lifestyle. I refuse hard work. I bring joy to the people. Who am I?
a. State of Origin final
b. Quinn
c. Duke of Earl
d. Rhiannon
Answers
1. Who was said to be HM Queen Elizabeth Two’s favourite child?
a. Andrew
If you give a pig and boy everything they want, you get a good pig and a bad boy. Now add royalty and see what you get.
2. Chris Luxon says he used to pester his olds to let them stay up late for the State of Origin. What are other things 18 year olds used to love doing in 1988?
Give yourself one point for each of those things you didn’t do at that age.
3. Chris Bishop caving on PC120 Auckland housing intensification marks a rare fail apart from what?
e. All of the above
4. A very interesting and constructive document about our future was released this week by whom?
a. Infrastructure Commission
5. The government has introduced legislation to abolish what?
b. The Ministry for the Environment as part of its plans to build a new super-agency tasked with urban development, planning, infrastructure and transport.
6. What is meant by Going Misère?
b. Trying to lose every single trick
7. What do you call tanking the economy, doing nothing about climate change, abolishing MFE and filling Tik Tok with inanities?
a. Going Misère
8. Can you think of one area left unscathed in this country by disastrous climate change events?
a. Give yourself 10 points off your insurance premium for whatever you picked. This is was prompted by reader NinjaKitty on Bluesky - Hi Jackie!! - who wrote:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but over the past five years I don’t think there’s been one area left unscathed in this country by disastrous climate change events.
9. What has been given a one year extension?
a. A one-year extension of the Waikato–Auckland Te Huia inter-regional passenger train trial has been welcomed by regional leaders, rail advocates and government officials as they seek more time to evaluate its future and build momentum for long-term services connecting the two regions.
10. The subject of this song is my arrival. I prefer a more relaxed lifestyle. I refuse hard work. I bring joy to the people. Who am I?
b. Quinn the Eskimo, brother.
