Best of super quiz

1. Which comedian wrote the children’s story Badjelly the Witch?

2. Of which New Zealand city are Wadestown and Thorndon inner suburbs?

3. Which New Zealander film director directed The Piano?

4. Which similar names connect a British television series starring Martin Clunes and a popular brand of footwear?

5. Which former British colony returned to China in 1997?

6. What number is written as 10000 in binary?

7. Which New Zealand band’s hits included Sensitive to a Smile and French Letter?

8. Which South American fruit is sometimes known as the tree tomato?

9. Are Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s television programmes usually connected with cooking, science or travel?

10. In which board game developed in Germany in 1995 do players attempt to build settlements by trading brick, lumber, wool, grain and ore?

11. Which North Otago township lies on the south bank of the Kakanui River?

12. In which month is this year’s general election scheduled to take place?

13. What symbol is depicted on the badge of the England national rugby team?

14. Which popular actress is the daughter of the lead singer of veteran rock band Aerosmith?

15. In which sport did Tony Ineson win an Olympic gold medal for New Zealand in 1976?

16. What colour is the mineral malachite?

17. Which tiny Asian nation lies on the north coast of Borneo, sharing a land border only with Malaysia?

18. Which noted ancient building’s name comes from its location close to that of a long destroyed giant statue?

19. What kind of animal is an onager?

20. In New Zealand sports betting, what do the letters TAB stand for?