2 September 2010

Banks and Brown choose super quiz teams

Forget postal voting. Len Brown and John Banks will face off against each other at the Metro Mayoral Super Quiz this Sunday night.

In the blue corner - for want of a better term - Banks has lined up NZ Listener columnist and former TVNZ news head Bill Ralston. Banks and Ralston are joined by Claudette Hauiti, an award-winning TV producer who makes internet-only television for Gogglebox TV.

Across the debating chamber Brown has gone for blogger and speech writer David Slack. Supporting Brown and Slack is Radio 531pi host Yolande Ah Chong who also tips her hat at acting.

Organised by Metro magazine, the Metro Mayoral Super Quiz is under the adjudication of renowned 'opinionist' Te Radar. Limited numbers of tickets are available to the public for the free-of-charge event.

At the quiz, rather than spouting well-rehearsed political themes, the candidates and their teams will be subjected to a grilling on their knowledge about the super city they aspire to lead. Questions will be designed not just to test their knowledge of the city, but for maximum entertainment value.

"There's not nearly enough fun going on in this election," says Metro editor Simon Wilson. "And that's a serious matter. Comedy is always the best way to find out the truest things."

Wilson believes the leaders have been shrewd in their team choices.

"If this is an example of the types of people Brown and Banks are gathering round them then Super City forums are going to be lively, that's for sure," Wilson says. "We expect this will be totally great. And we haven't heard a peep of complaint about the frocks on Metro's September cover."

Quiz questions will relate to the area covered by the new super city and will be asked in 10 categories such as popular entertainment, Pasifika, history, sport and recreation, the arts, the environment and the future.

Audience participation is a must, according to Wilson.

The quiz starts at 6pm at Sale St bar and restaurant on Sunday September 5 - 10 days before Super City voting begins. To apply for a first-in, first-served ticket, email rsvp@peadpr.co.nz

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