Best of super quiz
1.
What colour are forgetmenot flowers?
2.
Are the Remarkables located to the northwest, southeast or southwest of Queenstown?
3.
Which British comedian, appears on television in QI and as the title character in Jonathan Creek?
4.
In which continent is the Orinoco River?
5.
How would the United States flag be changed if a new state was added to the country?
6.
Which of the following does not exist in rugby league — scrums, drop goals or lineouts?
7.
What type of lighting was first demonstrated by George Claude in Paris in 1910?
8.
Which day of the week is known in Germany as Mittwoch?
9.
What was Eddie’s surname in television comedy Absolutely Fabulous?
10.
June 2015 marked the bicentenary of which major Napoleonic War battle?
11.
What was the name of Helen Mirren’s character in the Prime Suspect
television dramas?
12.
What name is given to the symbolic coins given out by the Queen annually on the day before Good Friday?
13.
Which natural obstacle is bypassed by the Welland Ship Canal?
14.
What is the current name of the country formerly known as South West Africa?
15.
What New Zealand television personality was lead singer of the 1990s rock band Push Push?
16.
For what was New Zealander Sir Tom Skinner (190991) best known?
17.
What, officially, are represented by the Lion and Unicorn supporters on the British national coat of arms?
18.
What happened to much of the German imperial navy at the end of World War 1 in Scapa
Flow, in Scotland’s Orkney islands?
19.
Which country’s first unmanned moon probe, Chandrayaan 1, was launched into space in 2008?
20.
Which leading politician told media in 1962, at what was expected to be his final press conference, ‘‘You won’t have [me] to kick around any more!’’?