User:Panamitsu/Challenges

This is my progress towards achieving Bilorv's Challenges. I'm not that interested in achieving them but I thought that it would be fun to track my progress, and maybe I'll take the challenges more seriously in the future.

General challenges

Alphabet

• A – Auckland (meteorite)
• B – Burma (elephant)
• C – C1 Espresso
• D – December 2010 Christchurch earthquake
• E – Edmonds (brand)
• F – Firefighters Reserve
• G – GeoNet (New Zealand)
• H – Happy Feet (penguin)
• I – Inky (octopus)
• J – Jelly Tip
• K – Kōpuahingahinga Island
• L – Leonardo da Vinci (Isaacson book)
• M – Morris Villarroel
• N – Napier Technical College, New Zealand
• O – Owha
• P – Paora
• Q – Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Day
• R – Richard Davis (missionary)
• S – Springfield Doughnut
• T – Thomas (goose)
• U –
• V – Vanessa Beavis
• W – Waitangiroto Nature Reserve
• X –
• Y – You've Been Scammed
• Z –

Bonus

• 0
• 1 – 1984 Southland floods (and others)
• 2 – 2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages (and others)
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9

Ambiguation

I had done this one on accident

• Disambiguation: Archway Island
• Archway Island (Antipodes Island Group)
• Archway Island (Poor Knights Islands)
• Archway Island (Kawau Island)

Archaeologist

• 2009 Dusky Sound earthquake

Calendar

• 1 – Goody Goody Gum Drops (DYK)
• 2 – Paora (DYK)
• 3 –
• 4 – E-Defense (DYK)
• 5 – Shel Kaphan (DYK)
• 6 – December 2010 Christchurch earthquake (DYK)
• 7 – Jenny Suo (DYK)
• 8 –
• 9 – OOB Organic (DYK)
• 10 – GeoNet (New Zealand) (DYK)
• 11 –
• 12 – Lemon & Te Aroha (DYK)
• 13 – James Mustapic (DYK)
• 14 – Happy Feet (penguin) (DYK)
• 15 – Owha (DYK)
• 16 – Foodbank Canterbury (DYK)
• 17 – Tea in New Zealand (DYK)
• 18 – Edmonds (brand) (DYK)
• 19 – 2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages (ITN)
• 20 – Burma (elephant) (DYK)
• 21 – Leonardo da Vinci (Isaacson book) (DYK)
• 22 – Greg Foran (DYK)
• 23 –
• 24 – Supie (DYK)
• 25 – Thomas (goose) (DYK)
• 26 – September 11 Digital Archive (DYK)
• 27 – Ernest Rutherford memorial (DYK)
• 28 – Big Lemon & Paeroa bottle (DYK)
• 29 – Sealord Group (DYK)
• 30 – Claudia Sanders Dinner House (DYK)
• 31 –

Maximalist

• 2024 in New Zealand – 384,043 bytes (as of 27 January 2025)
• Sixth National Government of New Zealand – 338,311 bytes (as of 27 January 2025)
• 2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages – 202,228 bytes (as of 27 January 2025)
• List of shipwrecks in 2024 – 132,674 bytes (as of 27 January 2025)
• 2024 in India – 130,083 bytes (as of 27 January 2025)
• 2024 Lithuanian presidential election – 125,000 bytes (as of 27 January 2025)

Polyonymous

I doubt I'll ever get this.

Rock around the clock

I doubt I'll ever get this.

Switch

• 1 – Burma (elephant)
• 2 – 1984 Southland floods (see archive)
• 3 – 2019 Timaru hailstorm (see archive)
• 4 – Thomas (goose) (see archive)
• 5 – James Mustapic (see archive)
• 6 – Auckland (meteorite) (see archive)
• 7 – Leonardo da Vinci (Isaacson book) (see archive)
• 8 – Tea in New Zealand (see archive)
• 9 – Happy Feet (penguin) (see archive)

Textbook example

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Vitality

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Wall-to-wall coverage

I doubt I'll ever get this.

Topic-specific

Animal, vegetable, mineral

• Animal:
  • Owha
  • Paora
• Vegetable:
• Mineral:
  • Auckland (meteorite) (I think this counts?)

Astronaut

• Io – Mum (sea lion)
• Earth – December 2010 Christchurch earthquake
• Sun – Samsung Galaxy S25
• Pan – Japan Industrial Partners

Centenarian

• 1000s –
• 1100s –
• 1200s –
• 1300s –
• 1400s –
• 1500s –
• 1600s –
• 1700s – Richard Davis (missionary)
• 1800s –
• 1900s – Morris Villarroel

Decadent

• 1900s –
• 1910s –
• 1920s –
• 1930s – Judith Aitken
• 1940s – Ingrid Collins
• 1950s – Jo-anne Wilkinson
• 1960s – Greg Foran
• 1970s –
• 1980s – Jessica Mutch McKay
• 1990s – James Mustapic

Diplomat

• Africa-Asia
• Africa-Europe
• Africa-North America
• Africa-Oceania
• Africa-South America
• Asia-Europe
• Asia-North America
• Asia-Oceania
• Asia-South America
• Europe-North America
• Europe-Oceania
• Europe-South America
• North America-Oceania
• North America-South America
• Oceania-South America

EGOT

I doubt I'll ever get this.

Elementary

• Tin – Are We Dating The Same Guy?
• Iron
• Lead
• Gold

Round the world

• Afghanistan

• Albania

• Algeria

• Andorra

• Angola

• Antigua and Barbuda

• Argentina

• Armenia

• Australia

• Austria

• Azerbaijan

• Bahamas

• Bahrain

• Bangladesh

• Barbados

• Belarus

• Belgium

• Belize

• Benin

• Bhutan

• Bolivia

• Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Botswana

• Brazil

• Brunei

• Bulgaria

• Burkina

• Burundi

• Cambodia

• Cameroon

• Canada

• Cape Verde

• Central African Republic

• Chad

• Chile

• China – 2023 Beijing Subway collision

• Colombia

• Comoros

• Congo

• Congo, Democratic Republic of

• Costa Rica

• Croatia

• Cuba

• Cyprus

• Czech Republic

• Denmark

• Djibouti

• Dominica

• Dominican Republic

• East Timor

• Ecuador

• Egypt

• El Salvador

• Equatorial Guinea

• Eritrea

• Estonia
• Eswatini

• Ethiopia

• Fiji

• Finland

• France

• Gabon

• Gambia

• Georgia

• Germany

• Ghana

• Greece

• Grenada

• Guatemala

• Guinea

• Guinea-Bissau

• Guyana

• Haiti

• Honduras

• Hungary

• Iceland

• India – 2024 in India

• Indonesia

• Iran

• Iraq

• Ireland, Republic of

• Israel

• Italy

• Ivory Coast

• Jamaica

• Japan – E-Defense

• Jordan

• Kazakhstan

• Kenya

• Kiribati

• Korea, North

• Korea, South

• Kosovo

• Kuwait

• Kyrgyzstan

• Laos

• Latvia

• Lebanon

• Lesotho

• Liberia

• Libya

• Liechtenstein

• Lithuania – 2024 Lithuanian presidential election

• Luxembourg

• Macedonia

• Madagascar

• Malawi

• Malaysia

• Maldives

• Mali

• Malta

• Marshall Islands

• Mauritania

• Mauritius

• Mexico

• Micronesia

• Moldova

• Monaco

• Mongolia

• Montenegro

• Morocco

• Mozambique

• Myanmar

• Namibia

• Nauru

• Nepal

• Netherlands

• New Zealand – heaps (e.g. Happy Feet (penguin))

• Nicaragua

• Niger

• Nigeria

• Norway

• Oman

• Pakistan

• Palau

• Panama

• Papua New Guinea

• Paraguay

• Peru

• Philippines

• Poland

• Portugal

• Qatar

• Romania

• Russia

• Rwanda

• St Kitts & Nevis

• St Lucia
• Saint Vincent & the Grenadines

• Samoa

• San Marino

• Sao Tome & Principe

• Saudi Arabia

• Senegal

• Serbia

• Seychelles

• Sierra Leone

• Singapore

• Slovakia

• Slovenia

• Solomon Islands

• Somalia

• South Africa

• South Sudan

• Spain

• Sri Lanka

• Sudan

• Suriname

• Sweden

• Switzerland

• Syria

• Taiwan – 2024 in Taiwan

• Tajikistan

• Tanzania

• Thailand

• Togo

• Tonga

• Trinidad & Tobago

• Tunisia

• Turkey

• Turkmenistan

• Tuvalu

• Uganda

• Ukraine

• United Arab Emirates

• United Kingdom – Rebecca Struthers

• United States – The Stargate Project

• Uruguay

• Uzbekistan

• Vanuatu

• Vatican City

• Venezuela

• Vietnam

• Yemen

• Zambia

• Zimbabwe

Women of the Year

I doubt I'll ever get this.