Question

This author, who introduced his recurring protagonist Sam Cash in the book Hang on a Minute Mate, wrote five children’s books about the Pungapeople. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this New Zealand author, who embodied the stereotypical “Kiwi bloke” in books like A Good Keen Man. Taika Waititi adapted his novel Wild Pork and Watercress into the movie Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
ANSWER: Barry Crump [or Crumpy; or John Barrie Crump]
[10m] Crump’s second Pungapeople book is partly titled for one of these locations, which they protect. A Nevil Shute novel titled for one of these locations describes nuclear fallout spreading to Australia.
ANSWER: beach [accept The Pungapeople of Ninety-Mile Beach; accept On the Beach; reject synonyms]
[10e] Crump wrote about hunting deer in this type of region of New Zealand. Banjo Paterson romanticized this type of region in Australia by writing “Waltzing Matilda,” one of this region’s namesake “ballads.”
ANSWER: the bush [accept bush ballads; prompt on the Outback]
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