Best of super quiz
1.
Which veteran rock band’s hits have included the songs Hotel California, One of These Nights and Lyin’ Eyes?
2.
Which Russian cosmonaut in April 1961 became the first man in space?
3.
What word can mean a species of falcon, a toy horse or a pastime?
4.
What is the twoword Latin motto of the University of Otago?
5.
What is the name of the rocky debris carried and later deposited by a glacier?
6.
On which street is Dunedin Central police station?
7.
In which year was the waterside dispute, the most widespread industrial dispute in New Zealand history?
8.
Is Russia’s Lake Baikal thought to be the world’s saltiest, highest or deepest lake?
9.
The 2007 film I’m Not There
is a fictionalised story based on the life of which rock musician?
10.
Which European country is known in its own language as Hrvatska?
11.
Which animated television character had a sidekick called Penfold?
12.
Who wrote the Twilight
series of novels?
13. What colour is ecru?
14. Which noted early Otago physician and historian lived at ‘‘Atahapara’’, a house close to First Church on Moray Pl?
15.
After whom is the state capital of South Australia named?
16.
Which major Dunedin suburban street’s businesses include Trawler Fish Supply, Baker’s Dozen Bakery and Brew Cafe and Bar?
17.
1970s New Zealand television series The Governor
was based on the life of which famous New Zealander?
18.
Which two words appear on the scroll at the foot of the New Zealand national coat of arms?
19.
Which American singer had to edit a video of her song Dark Horse because of complaints a scene in it insulted Islam?
20.
Which Russian composer’s bestknown works include the 1936 composition Peter and the Wolf?