Aotearoa's Next Top Nerd

Who coined the word ‘meme’?

In what decade was the term ‘robot’ first used?

What is measured on the Scoville Scale?

What is an official language of Luxembourg?

How many straight lines can be drawn between two points?

What is the average change in population IQ over a decade?

What US sitcom that popularised the term 'nerd' by its heavy use in the 1970s?

Which of these is not a real tabletop roleplaying system?

The word ‘crepuscular’ relates to something which is active at what time of day?

What is Aotearoa's prize for Sci-Fi and Fantasy writing called?

Anecdotally, Archimedes yelled ‘Eureka’ because he had discovered a way to detect the density of what?

Te reo Māori and English use the same vowels but not all of the same consonants. Which are NOT common to both languages?

What city is John Constantine from?

What is the principle of Starfleet’s 'Prime Directive' in Star Trek

If you were a nerd making a website in 2001, which hosting platform would you have been unlikely to use?

Richard Pearse didn’t make it to the patent office in time to beat the Wright bros. What part of NZ did he fly in?

True or false the computer for which Ada Lovelace wrote algorithms was Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine?

How many seasons did the show Smallville run for?

Which of these Oscar-winning movies features a poster-credited cast who have all played named characters in the MCU?

And how much did the Charlie Bit My Finger NFT sell for?

What percentage of their DNA do double first cousins share?

We know that Frankenstein was the mad scientist – so what is the name of the creature in Mary Shelley’s original work?

The “Current Wars” was a competition between Thomas Edison and whom?

What was the app TikTok originally called?

Which of these is not a peripheral, in computer terms?

What is the English meaning for the word ‘esperanto’ when used as a standard noun?

The mathematical version of ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’ is calculated using what number?

Which author has set a number of their stories and novels in the fictional location of Green Town, Illinois?

Nikola Tesla was really into what animal?

How many main types of bridge are there?

The name of the first computer to win a game of go against a professional player was DeepMind?

Which of these EU countries has NOT banned lootboxes?

When was World of Warcraft first released?

What does the F in NFT stand for?

What is the name of the short story by Ted Chiang which was adapted into the movie Arrival?

True or false: Ball lightning is a recognised scientific phenomenon?