Best of super quiz

1. What is the freezing point of water on the Fahrenheit temperature scale?

2. Which actor won his first Oscar for his leading role in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?

3. What is the usual English name for the German city known by its inhabitants as Koln?

4. Which kind of food is known in French as champignons?

5. Which Otago settlement is named after an Oxfordshire town famous for its annual rowing regatta?

6. Which famous building is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave?

7. What is the name of the current pope?

8. The European region of the Tyrol spans the border between which two countries?

9. What are the three skifields on Mt Ruapehu?

10. What nationality was composer Frederic Chopin?

11. What kind of homemade weapon is named after the Soviet Union’s foreign minister during World War 2?

12. Which suburb of Christchurch, long associated with the RNZAF, is home to the Air Force Museum?

13. For which English Premier League side does New Zealander Winston Reid play?

14. What, in world politics, is the G7?

15. How many pieces does each player start with in a game of backgammon?

16. Whereabouts in the body is the anterior cruciate ligament?

17. Near Millers Flat, there is a gravestone which reads ‘‘Here lies the body of William Rigney, the man who buried — —’’. What two words complete the inscription?

18. Which Palestinian political and military leader died in Paris in November 2004?

19. How many political parties have seats in New Zealand’s Parliament at present?

20. What kind of entertainment do mummers usually perform?