Super quiz

BEGINNER (1pt each)

➊ Who is the current British prime minister?

➋ What is the usual time signature of waltz music?

➌ Which country is the home base for official America’s Cup challengers of record, Luna Rossa?

INTERMEDIATE (2pt each)

➍ Which New Zealand actor and musician starred in the films Smash Palace and The Quiet Earth?

➎ Which rock group’s classic lineup included keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger?

➏ What type of puff pastry has a French name meaning ‘‘flying in the wind’’?

➐ Which children’s book by E.B. White opens with the words ‘‘‘Where’s Papa going with that axe?’ said Fern to her mother. . .’’?

EXPERT (3pt each)

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What was the name until 1998 of what is now Dunedin’s Rialto Cinema?

➒ Which international golf trophy was won in 1992 by New Zealanders Michael Campbell, Grant Moorhead, Phil Tataurangi and Stephen Scahill?

➓ Which Egyptianborn actor, best known for the 1960s films Dr Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, was born Michel Shalhoub in 1932?