Super quiz

BEGINNER (1 pt each)

➊ Which American author’s greatest works include For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms?

➋ The town of Turangi lies close to the shore of which large New Zealand lake?

➌ Which popular music group’s members have included Will.i.am, Taboo and Fergie?

INTERMEDIATE (2 pts each)

➍ Which was earlier, the Battle of Waterloo or the Battle of Trafalgar?

➎ Which fictional character is based on Scotsman Alexander Selkirk?

➏ What kind of military hardware has types called the Pershing, Minuteman and Hellfire?

➐ Which 1970s television sitcom spoofed daytime soap operas with its saga of the Tates and the Campbells?

EXPERT (3 pts each)

➑ Which New Zealand author created the character of Inspector Roderick Alleyn?

➒ What connects the names of the highest point on Otago Peninsula and the main settlement in the tiny nation of Monaco, famous for its casinos?

➓ Which New Zealand minister of finance deliver the infamous 1958 ‘‘Black Budget’’?