Super quiz

BEGINNER (1 pt each)

➊

Of which South American country is Santiago the capital city?

➋

Which television programme made an instant, if temporary, star of Ben Lummis?

➌

Which kind of bird has varieties called brent, barnacle and Canada?

INTERMEDIATE (2 pts each)

➍

What term, now widely associated with dialogue from a 1991 horrorthriller film, is another name for broad beans?

➎

What are or were Frogger, Galaga and Arkanoid?

➏

With which country’s politics is the name is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad connected?

➐

Which actress’ films have included Sweet Charity, Being There, Terms of Endearment and Steel Magnolias?

EXPERT (3 pts each)

➑

Which Dunedin landmark has the rarely used Maori name of Kapukataumahaka?

➒

In chemistry, what name is given to almost all compounds consisting mainly of carbon and hydrogen?

➓

Which Australian aboriginal word meaning work is colloquially used on both sides of the Tasman to mean hard labour?