Best of super quiz
1.
What nickname is given to the genre of stylised, violent movies set in the Wild West but filmed in Europe by a mainly Italian crew?
2.
What is the former — still widely used — name for the country of Myanmar?
3.
Which river joins the Taieri River just south of Henley?
4.
Which company developed the PlayStation video game system?
5.
According to Maori legend, which natural southern feature was formed from gourds washed overboard from the canoe AraiteUru?
6.
Which British musician presents the British live music television show Later . . . with ...?
7.
By what shorter name do we commonly know radio detection and ranging technology?
8.
To which early Dunedin man is the monument in John Wickliffe Plaza dedicated?
9.
Who did Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) beat in 1964 to first gain the world heavyweight boxing title?
10.
In which American city was an office complex destroyed by bomber Timothy McVeigh in 1997?
11.
Which Russian writer’s novels included Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov?
12.
Of which colour is heliotrope a shade?
13.
Whereabouts in greater Dunedin is the former site of a Maori pa called Pukekura?
14.
Which television crime series’ characters include
Spencer Reid and Penelope Garcia?
15.
Which letter is represented in Morse code by three dots?
16.
On which famous overseas structure’s base is there a plaque displaying Ann Lazarus’ poem
The New Colossus?
17.
Which sport uses a ball similar in size and shape to a football and is played on a field with goalposts similar to rugby posts but with a net below the crossbar?
18.
Which annually contested New Zealand sports trophy was first won in 1923 by a team from Seacliff?
19.
Which painter born in Lancashire in 1887 is best known for his images of ‘‘matchstick men’’ in grim northern England industrial towns?
20.
What surname is shared by the men’s Commonwealth Games champion high jumper and his brother, a current Australian test cricketer?