Best of super quiz

1. Prior to its closure in 2018, on which Dunedin intersection would you have found the Fortune Theatre?

2. In which country did the kiwifruit originate?

3. What is the colourful name of the small lake close to St Bathans in Central Otago?

4. Which Waikato town is the site of New Zealand’s largest fossil fuelfired power station?

5. According to the traditional rhyme, who killed Cock Robin?

6. What colour is the drink absinthe?

7. Which New Zealand writer wrote the short stories The Doll’s House and The Garden Party?

8. Which 20thcentury French singer was known as ‘‘the Little Sparrow’’?

9. Who founded the city of Singapore in 1819?

10. By which alias was hired assassin Ilich Ramirez Sanchez better known?

11. Which member of The Beatles was also a member of the supergroup the Traveling Wilburys?

12. Which has the longer wavelength — infrared or ultraviolet?

13. Which television drama series, starring Jeremy Piven, was based on the real life of an American retailing tycoon in early 20th century London?

14. Which English football club reached the FA Cup final for the first, and only time, in its history in 2014?

15. Which firearm takes its name from the Czech city of Brno, in which it was designed, and the English town of Enfield, where it was produced?

16. Which country’s national costume includes a broad sash called an obi?

17. If five objects are arranged in a quincunx, how are they arrayed?

18. Which awardwinning book of memoirs by Irish writer Frank McCourt was turned into a 1999 film starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle?

19. Which city is home to such major works of art as Botticelli’s painting The Birth of Venus and Michelangelo’s statue David?

20. Which New Zealand cricketer picked up the nickname ‘‘the hairy javelin’’ during the 2015 Cricket World Cup?