DUNEDIN QUIZ KIDS' TEAM which won the 1953 Contest broadcast by the ZB stations. Left to right: Ken Price, Brian Merrilees, Deidre Boyes, Graham Smith, Charles Groot, and the quiz master, Ross Fenton. Auckland came second. Here are the questions they were asked (the answers are on page 25): (1) Which group of animals has no backbone? (2) What are lanyards? (3) What English city has been described as the City of Dreaming Spires? (4) Who invented the steamship, and when? (5) Which island has long been known as the Lighthouse of the Mediterranean? (6) If you were employed as a funambulist what would you be? (7) Identify the language and give the meanings of (a) Anno Domini, (b) Fait accompli, (c) bonne bouche, (d) respondez s'il vous plait, (e) hoi polloi, (f) Ich dien, (g) manana, (h) comme il faut, (i) Auf wiedersehen. (8) If you belong to the Royal Toxophilite Society, what sport are you interested in? (9) In what well-known novels do these appear: (a) Becky Sharp, (b) Sidney Carton, (c) Mr. Collins, (d) Clara Middleton, (e) Maggie Tulliver? (10) New Zealand's hot springs at Rotorua have a counterpart near Bristol, England. Where? (11) What is an otter? (12) What is an eisteddfod?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 24
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206DUNEDIN QUIZ KIDS' TEAM which won the 1953 Contest broadcast by the ZB stations. Left to right: Ken Price, Brian Merrilees, Deidre Boyes, Graham Smith, Charles Groot, and the quiz master, Ross Fenton. Auckland came second. Here are the questions they were asked (the answers are on page 25): (1) Which group of animals has no backbone? (2) What are lanyards? (3) What English city has been described as the City of Dreaming Spires? (4) Who invented the steamship, and when? (5) Which island has long been known as the Lighthouse of the Mediterranean? (6) If you were employed as a funambulist what would you be? (7) Identify the language and give the meanings of (a) Anno Domini, (b) Fait accompli, (c) bonne bouche, (d) respondez s'il vous plait, (e) hoi polloi, (f) Ich dien, (g) manana, (h) comme il faut, (i) Auf wiedersehen. (8) If you belong to the Royal Toxophilite Society, what sport are you interested in? (9) In what well-known novels do these appear: (a) Becky Sharp, (b) Sidney Carton, (c) Mr. Collins, (d) Clara Middleton, (e) Maggie Tulliver? (10) New Zealand's hot springs at Rotorua have a counterpart near Bristol, England. Where? (11) What is an otter? (12) What is an eisteddfod? New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 24
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