The Bulletin’s 2020 Year in News Quiz

Good morning, and welcome to The Bulletin’s 2020 Year in News Quiz. Merry Christmas.  It’s back again – The Bulletin’s Christmas Day Year in News Quiz is here, due to popular demand following last year’s edition. If you look around your Christmas gathering this year and remember which of your beloved family got more answers … Read more

Quiz: A Labour 2020 election message, or one from an old National campaign?

Does it sounds like a Key-English slogan, or something from Ardern-Robertson? Labour is ahead in the polls with a few days to go until decision day, and as incumbents you’d expect some of their messages to echo those from governing parties of days gone by. Grant Robertson and Jacinda Ardern have both, repeatedly, admiringly invoked … Read more

Quiz: Can you tell National’s five-point economic plan from Labour’s five-point economic plan?

Ten points, two plans. Which points are whose?  With an election within spitting distance, Aotearoa’s two biggest political parties are all about the plans. “You don’t have a plan!” says one party to the other. “Yes we have a plan, or certainly a plan to have a plan, or a plan to say you have … Read more

QUIZ: How does NZ describe itself to lure people from nine different nations?

Only one is really easy, but most of them make sense, in a bleak way. Envious of New Zealand progress in campaigns against things like viruses and armed police forces, Americans have been visiting the Immigration NZ website again, and alighting on enticing official messages on the Immigration NZ website newzealandnow.govt.nz. It turns out these … Read more

The Bulletin’s 2019 Year in News Quiz

Good morning, and welcome to The Bulletin’s 2019 Year in News Quiz.  How closely did you follow the news this year? To manage this quiz, the answer might have to be extremely closely. 2019 was a dramatic, and often relentlessly terrible year. There were tragedies and triumphs, earth-shatteringly important events, major pieces of law passed … Read more

The Figure-Friday quiz #6: Screw Trump, I’m moving to New Zealand

This week’s quickfire quiz: how much do you know about New Zealand’s relationship with the United States? Wednesday’s car-crash of a presidential debate meant a big day for excellent Kiwi Twitter account @MovingToEnZed. I reckon @MovingToEnZed is going to get a good workout during the debates eh — Somon (@simonpnz) September 27, 2016 With polls … Read more