Super quiz

BEGINNER (1pt each)

➊ Which cheese company, formerly located just north of Waitati, now operates from the former Cherry Farm hospital site at Hawkesbury?

➋ Which wellknown Australian actress, now married to New Zealand singer Keith Urban, is an exwife of actor Tom Cruise?

➌ A disease of which staple crop was responsible for a major famine which killed about one million people in Ireland in the 1840s?

INTERMEDIATE (2pt each)

➍ What are the colours of the three vertical stripes which make up the Belgian national flag?

➎ All New Zealand racehorses have their ages calculated using which day of the year as an official birthday?

➏ During which period of history was the fourth Blackadder series, Blackadder Goes Forth, set?

➐ Which of these small island nations is not in the Indian Ocean: Cape Verde, Mauritius, or Seychelles?

EXPERT (3pt each)

➑ Which pioneering New Zealand filmmaker is best known for the 1940 film Rewi’s Last Stand, which he wrote, directed, and produced?

➒ What was the nickname of notorious mobster Benjamin Siegel?

➓ Which New Zealand bird species was rescued from the brink of extinction in the 1980s through its last breeding female, ‘‘Old Blue’’?