Super quiz
BEGINNER (1pt each)
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Which Spanish artist’s 1931 surrealist painting The Persistence of Memory
famously depicts several melting pocket watches?
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What name beginning with C is used for the part of a hand drill which holds the twist drills that cut holes?
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By what nickname did Joseph Merrick (186290) become known owing to his severe physical deformity?
INTERMEDIATE (2pt each)
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Which New Zealand coach revolutionised training for athletes through his work with the likes of Peter Snell and Murray Halberg?
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Which charitable organisation runs New Zealand’s annual 40hour famine appeal?
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What form of buffetstyle meal has a Scandinavian name meaning ‘‘open sandwich table’’?
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What name is shared by a historic place in Northland and the largest settlement in the Chatham Islands?
EXPERT (3pt each)
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In which country were classical composers Frederick Delius and Gustav Holst born?
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What name is given to a beef fillet which is coated in a mushroom, pate, and herb paste and then baked?
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Which veteran actor’s film career stretched for 90 years, from 1927’s Orchids and Ermines
to the posthumously released
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 2017?