Best of super quiz

1. What kind of animal has species called green, leatherback and hawksbill?

2. Which European country is known in its national language as Suomi?

3. What type of nut provides a major part of the taste of marzipan?

4. At which time every two years is the Warbirds over Wanaka air show held?

5. What kind of structure is a campanile?

6. Which Otago philanthropist’s name is associated with a major sporting venue in Portsmouth Dr, Dunedin?

7. The farming communities of Te Houka and Kakapuaka lie just southwest of which Otago town?

8. Who played the role of James Bond in films immediately before Daniel Craig?

9. Which New Zealand band had hits in the 1980s with Forever Tuesday Morning and Alvison Park?

10. Turoa Skifield is located on the slopes of which mountain?

11. Which American state’s main cities include Allentown, Bethlehem and Pittsburgh?

12. What was the name of the space shuttle that disintegrated shortly after takeoff in 1986, killing all seven aboard?

13. For which film did Russell Crowe win the 2000 Oscar for Best Actor?

14. Which Japanese religion’s name means ‘‘the way of the gods’’?

15. Which country’s 2011 revolution began with protests in its capital’s Tahrir Square?

16. What are the names of the two feuding families in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet?

17. What was the name of the dog in the children’s television series The Magic Roundabout?

18. With which country’s civil rights movement is the name Eddie Mabo most closely associated?

19. Who was the first New Zealander to win literature’s Booker Prize?

20. Of which American city were father and son Richard J. and Richard M. Daley mayor for over 40 years between them?