When is the Sarjeant Gallery’s big reveal?
1. What date has been announced for the official reopening of the Sarjeant Gallery?
2. Brass Whanganui took first place in what section at the national brass band championships in Auckland?
3. Laraine Sole’s latest book focuses on which Whanganui suburb?
4. Nine young Whanganui dancers are fund-raising to travel to where in September 2025?
5. Name the Whanganui woman whose sculpture won an excellence award at the Society of Botanical Artists Plantae 2024 Exhibition in London.
6. The movie Poppy, starring Libby Hunsdale, has won what award in Cannes, France?
7. This Whanganui man was a film, TV, and stage actor with his most memorable roles in Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001).
8. Has the 125-year-old Whanganui Male Choir ever been in recess — yes or no?
9. Where do you find the Suzanne Aubert Library?
10. Which museum has recently opened an extension?
Quiz Answers
1. Saturday, November 9.
2. Marching.
3. Whanganui East. The book, titled Whanganui East: The Community Across The River 1840-1960, will be launched on August 3.
4. The USA.
5. Tracy Byatt.
6. The Cannes Escrans Seniors competition.
7. Terence Bayler (1930–2016).
8. No.
9. At Jerusalem.
10. The Patea-based Aotea Utanganui — Museum of South Taranaki.
Six correct — good; 8 — very good; 10 — genius!
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