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General Knowledge GK250 - uploaded 24 Jan 2025
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  •  1  NZ runner Peter Snell broke the World Record for running this distance in a race at Whanganui on 27 January 1962. (4)

  •  3  Opening on 25 January 1974, the Commonwealth Games held at Christchurch were known as the "_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Games". (8)

  •  9/10        This watercourse drains Lake Wakatipu at Frankton and passes through a steep gorge on the way to Lake Dunstan. (7,5)

  • 11 Out of practice, or impaired in skill or knowledge by inaction or neglect. (5)

  • 12 Expel air from the lungs. (6)

  • 14 In terms of medals won, this has been New Zealand's most successful sport at the Olympic Games. (6)

  • 16 Inability to see distant objects clearly because the images are focused in front of the retina instead of on it. (6)

  • 19 Now seldom used, a term used in formal writing to refer to the previous month (usually abbreviated to its first 3 letters). (6)

  • 21 The male protagonist of the Shakespeare tragedy about two rival Houses, the Montagues and the Capulets. (5)

  • 24 A person who travels across snow on long thin runners. (5)

  • 25 Any means of inflicting severe punishment, suffering, or vengeance. (7)

  • 26 Any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four compartments. (8)

  • 27 See 20 Down

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  •  1  This river flows into the northern end of Lake Wānaka and is a principal tributary of the lake. (8)

  •  2  The _ _ _ _ _ Pass is the northernmost of the three main mountain passes through the Southern Alps of Aotearoa/New Zealand. (5)

  •  4  A device that allows data to be moved efficiently through a computer network. (6)

  •  5  The fifth largest planet in the Solar System. (5)

  •  6  Treat photographic film, plate or paper with chemical solutions in order to produce a visible image. (7)

  •  7  According to the English nursery rhyme, this Duke was inclined to march large numbers of soldiers up and down hills. (4)

  •  8  A coloured stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing. (6)

  • 13 In George Orwell's 1945 novella Animal Farm, this character is the main antagonist and is based on Joseph Stalin. (8)

  • 15/18       Auckland Anniversary Day, officially 29 January, commemorates the arrival in the Bay of Islands in 1840 of this future Governor of NZ. (7,6)

  • 17 Native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, this plant is commonly found in NZ pastures and lawns. (6)

  • 18 See 15

  • 20/27       Former Pakistan cricketer and Prime Minister _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ was recently sentenced to a 14 year prison term for corruption. (5,4)

  • 22 In Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, the title character is warned by a soothsayer to beware the Ides of this month. (5)

  • 23 With origins in the October Revolution of 1917, this country (abbreviation) was formally dissolved in 1991. (4)

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