Super quiz

BEGINNER (1pt each)

➊ Which country’s national teams in most team sports are known as the ‘‘Azzurri’’?

➋ Which classic psychological test involves the interpretation of subjects’ perception of inkblot patterns?

➌ Which singer and actor had the nickname ‘‘Ol’ blue eyes’’?

INTERMEDIATE (2pt each)

➍ What, in a cycling road race, is the ‘‘lanterne rouge’’?

➎ Which US test pilot, the first to break the sound barrier, died recently aged 97?

➏ Whereabouts in Otago is the Huriawa Peninsula?

➐ By what name do we commonly know the island in the eastern Pacific known by its inhabitants as Rapa Nui or Isla de Pascua?

EXPERT (3pt each)

➑ Which New Zealand heavy metal band has gained attention both here and overseas for singing many of its songs — such as Raupatu and Kai Tangata — in Maori?

➒ Of which Pacific island nation did Fr Walter Lini become the first prime minister upon independence in 1980?

➓ Which Dunedin author is New Zealand’s current official poet laureate?