Best of super quiz
1.
Which American city’s nicknames include ‘‘The city that never sleeps’’?
2.
Is Australian television series
The Block a police drama, a home renovation reality show or a current events programme?
3.
In which year was the American Declaration of Independence signed?
4.
What is Bob Dylan’s birth name?
5.
Which medical condition beginning with T is characterised by a ringing or humming noise in the ears?
6.
Which scenic attraction lies on the coast halfway between Blackhead and St Clair Beach?
7.
What is the lowest official operatic female singing range known as?
8.
Where in the human body is the pineal gland?
9.
Which rock band had hits in the late 1960s with the songs
Touch Me, Hello, I Love You and
People Are Strange?
10.
Which two netball teams were merged in 2008 to form the Southern Steel?
11.
What was the surname of the brothers whose whaling station at Otakou was the first major European settlement on Otago Harbour?
12.
Wallonia is the name of the Frenchspeaking part of which European country?
13.
Which Otago township’s main streets include Northland St and Charlemont St?
14.
Which New Zealand director’s films have included The Navigator, Vigil and Map of the Human Heart?
15.
Who wrote the massive ninevolume novel Tristram Shandy?
16.
True or false — there has never been an Africanborn pope.
17.
What is the former, betterknown name of Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City?
18.
Who was the most famous child of 16thcentury Englishwoman Mary Arden?
19.
The Gallipoli landings took place in the Dardanelles. By what name beginning with H did the ancients refer to this same stretch of water?
20.
In which country’s early history was Emperor Ashoka the Great a major figure?