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Quarantine Quiz: Motherhood and apple pie

Saturday 18 April 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but it's not the answer in Cook Islands. Discover what the answer is to our quiz.

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Quarantine Quiz: A slight hiccup

Friday 17 April 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

Hic! Today's quiz – hic! – asks the record – hic! hic! – for the – hic! – longest bout of hiccups. Take a breath then give it a go.

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Quarantine Quiz: Chips, ships and planes

Thursday 16 April 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

As Germany sends a charter flight to collect stranded European tourists, it's all plane sailing in today's travel-themed Quarantine Quiz.

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Back to bass-ics

Wednesday 15 April 2020 | Written by Katrina Lintonbon | Published in Entertainment

Musicians are hurting because they are unable to share their creation with the public, local producers say.

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Quarantine Quiz: How to not get lost

Wednesday 15 April 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

North, south, east, west, the compass directions are just a start in today's handy Quarantine Quiz. Don't get lost, get to the point – and test yourself.

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Quarantine Quiz: Reaching for the stars

Tuesday 14 April 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

This is our most stellar set of questions yet in the admittedly short history of the Cook Islands News Quarantine Quiz. Compete with friends and family – who's the star?

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Quarantine Quiz: The world's biggest Easter egg

Saturday 11 April 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

Our increasingly popular Quarantine Quiz poses some questions on Easter eggs, sport and the Sheraton.

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Islands in the stream

Saturday 11 April 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Entertainment

Better internet speeds are allowing locals to follow their favourite Cook Islands DJs on their live streams.

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Quarantine Quiz: Whiners and liners

Thursday 9 April 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

Our increasingly popular Quarantine Quiz poses some questions about the comings and going of cruise ships – a change from queries about the diminishing number of flights.

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Quarantine Quiz: Holy week, Time Magazine

Tuesday 7 April 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

This is Holy Week. The day Jesus died is called:...

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Heartbreak Hotel for well-loved restaurant

Monday 6 April 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

It should have been the Pacific Elvis last week, Tiki Taane this weekend. Instead there’s sadness as the Charlie’s team calls closing time – for now.

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Quarantine Quiz: Big birds, small islands

Monday 6 April 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

This is Holy Week. If it took place in Cook Islands today, what would be different? For a start, the Last Supper would be limited to Jesus and no more than nine Apostles ...

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Quarantine Quiz: Coffee, chocolate and wine

Saturday 4 April 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

It's the fastest-moving quiz in the Cooks. Which of these cafes are still open for a takeaway caffeine fix? (Okay, it's the only quiz ...)

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Quarantine Quiz: Octopus and stars

Friday 3 April 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

Finance Minister Mark Brown this week compared the economic impact of Covid-19 to what? Test yourself with our new quiz.

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Quarantine Quiz: Flags and planes

Thursday 2 April 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

Which flag should you fly if you are self-quarantining because you have been overseas in the past fortnight? Test yourself with our new quiz.

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Tzar of the South Seas

Tuesday 24 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Entertainment

Singer Tzar is back in Raro, and dreaming of putting together a family band. It is the one life experience about which musician Teuira Williams hasn’t been able to put the pen to the paper: his near-death experience out at sea.

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Country legend remembered

Monday 23 March 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

Kenny Rogers knew that if you’re gonna play the game boy, you’ve gotta learn to play it right.

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'Enough watching from the sidelines'

Saturday 14 March 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment

Cook Islands soul star Teremoana Rapley has released her first song in 20 years – and it’s already getting enormous acclaim.

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'My character is blue, but what you see on the big screen is 100% me'

Sunday 8 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Entertainment

Duane Wichman-Evans Jr got into acting by chance. When he was three, he went with his mum Tutevera Wichman, a Cook Islander, to a casting for a health department TV commercial. As he sat there waiting for his mother to finish her audition, the casting director spotted him and said he was exactly what they needed for another commercial.

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Emma's fresh local flavours go global

Saturday 22 February 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Entertainment

A young environmentalist and entrepreneur is keeping Cook Islands food fresh on oversea TV.

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