Best of super quiz
1.
Which veteran rock and soul singer started her career singing alongside her then husband Ike?
2.
What is the usual colour of cherry blossom?
3.
Which major river runs through Palmerston North?
4.
How many strings does a ukulele usually have?
5.
Which brothers founded a whaling station at Otakou in 1831, the first permanent European settlers in the Dunedin area?
6.
In which sport might someone compete in an omnium or madison?
7.
Which modern country’s territory includes all of the ancient land of Mesopotamia?
8.
What is the usual colour of the mineral malachite?
9.
What is the name of the wetlands bird reserve located close to Lake Waipori on the
Taieri Plain?
10.
What is the title of the spiritual leader of the Anglican Church worldwide?
11.
Who was the founder of The Warehouse chain of stores?
12.
Which two space probes launched in late 1977 are now the furthest humanmade objects from Earth?
13.
Which singer’s first solo album was 1991’s Little Earthquakes?
14.
Where in New Zealand is the Denniston Plateau?
15.
Which country is bounded by the Adriatic Sea in the east and the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west?
16.
Television and comic characters the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were named after which four classical artists?
17.
Which French word meaning a duck is sometimes used in English to mean a hoax or urban myth?
18.
Who played the role of DCI Jim Taggart in the British television crime series Taggart?
19.
Which English footballing feat has been achieved only by Arsenal and Manchester United (three times each), Preston North End, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester City (once each)?
20.
Which Maori iwi is sometimes referred to as ‘‘the children of the mist’’?