Super quiz

BEGINNER (1 pt each)

➊ Which river is the outflow for Lake Taupo?

➋ Of which country was Silvio Berlusconi a controversial political leader?

➌ What is the value of the highest denomination New Zealand banknote?

INTERMEDIATE (2 pts each)

➍ Which alcoholic drink is usually mixed with gin to make a martini?

➎ With which indoor sport was the name of New Zealander Dene O’Kane most closely connected?

➏ Which disco singer had hits in the late 1970s with the songs Last Dance, Hot Stuff and I Feel Love?

➐ What is the most widely used name of the elephantheaded Hindu god of beginnings and the arts, also called the ‘‘remover of obstacles’’?

EXPERT (3 pts each)

➑ In which year was gold discovered at Gabriel’s Gully by Gabriel Read?

➒ Which jazz singer’s biggestselling records were 1939’s Strange Fruit and 1941’s God Bless The Child?

➓ One of World War 1’s greatest disasters occurred in December 1917 in — surprisingly — Canada. What happened?