Best of super quiz
1.
Which veteran rock musician surprised the musicbuying public in 2013 with his first album in a decade, The Next Day?
2.
Which Otago town calls itself New Zealand’s steampunk capital?
3.
To which of the five senses does the term ‘‘olfactory’’ refer?
4.
Whereabouts in Dunedin would you find the Lister Garden and Lovelock Bush?
5.
What significant achievement by a New Zealander occurred on May 29, 1953?
6.
Which of these artists is not regarded as one of the PreRaphaelites: John Constable, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, or William Holman Hunt?
7.
Which wellknown children’s book writer’s first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, was published in 2012?
8.
What are the first names of the two professional rugby leagueplaying Rapira brothers?
9.
Which island and nature reserve is located off the coast of the North Island, 10km west of Waikanae?
10.
Which film director’s movies have included Alien, Blade Runner, Black Hawk Down and Gladiator?
11.
What is the name of the movie based on the life of Liberace, starring Michael Douglas in the lead role?
12.
Which series of video games is largely based in the fictional Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas City?
13.
Which dangerous substance was discovered in New Zealand railway rolling stock bought from China?
14.
Who was Nazi Germany’s minister of propaganda during World War 2?
15.
By what name is American television personality Judy Sheindlin better know to the viewing public?
16.
Which major French landmark’s 850th anniversary was celebrated with the addition of a new set of bells?
17.
How did T.E. Lawrence (‘‘Lawrence of Arabia’’) die?
18.
The island of Sakhalin is administered by which country?
19.
Which now ubiquitous technology became commercially practical with the launch in Tokyo of the NTT network in 1979?
20.
Which Central American country was governed during the 1980s by the Sandinista National Liberation Front?