Super quiz

BEGINNER (1 point each)

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What name was given to the bubonic plague pandemic which swept Europe in the 1340s?

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What is the Maori word for mourning?

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Which is the largest of Britain’s Channel Islands?

INTERMEDIATE (2 points each)

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Which creature is the symbol of the current year in the Chinese calendar?

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Which legal character created by author John Mortimer was portrayed on television by Leo McKern?

➏

Where in Dunedin is there a small peninsula called Yellowhead?

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Which of these 20thcentury artists is not best known as a sculptor — Henri Rousseau, Sir Henry Moore or Constantin Brancusi?

EXPERT (3 points each)

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Which Dunedin sportsman was Halberg Awards Champion of the Decade for the 1990s?

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In which sport has the ‘‘Abba system’’ recently been trialled as a replacement for the ‘‘alternating system’’ to decide ties?

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Which French scientist’s work included creating vaccines against rabies and anthrax, and discoveries about the nature of crystals?