I’m writ­ing ques­tions for a work Quiz Night that we’re going to be hav­ing tomor­row, and decided that it would be good to have a ‘Cour­tenay Place and its sur­round­ings’ round, giv­en the loc­a­tion of this par­tic­u­lar branch of the Wel­ling­tonista. How well will you do at answer­ing these ques­tions in the com­ments, without googling, look­ing out the win­dow or read­ing the pre­vi­ous com­ments? I’m guess­ing pretty well… (oh, and if any work­mates are read­ing this – don’t cheat! Wait until tomor­row!)

1. What is the name of the res­taur­ant which is in a build­ing built in 1876 that used to be a funer­al home?

2. Name the own­ers of Boulot. Bonus point for a logic­al reas­on­ing of which one is hot­ter.

3. How much did Tri­pod cost rate­pay­ers, not includ­ing the cost of mov­ing the trol­ley bus wires?

4. What did the Embassy cinema used to be called?

5. How much would you pay for ten lattes at A) Ora B) Pan­doro? Bonus point for any inclu­sions.

6. What is this Cour­tenay Place char­ac­ter­’s real name? Bonus ques­tion – What is the name of the polit­ic­al party he rep­res­ents?


7. What’s the old­est theatre in Cour­tenay Place? Bonus ques­tion – which year was it estab­lished?

8. Who is con­sidered the “MP for Cour­tenay Place”?

9. Where is this clock?


10. Who owns J&M; Fast Food, and what is one oth­er thing that they are fam­ous for?