Super quiz

BEGINNER (1 pt each)

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Which one word can be placed in front of the words coffee, guards, wolfhound, and moss to create sensible compound nouns?

➋

Who wrote the fairy tales The Little Mermaid and Thumbelina?

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Which New Zealand cricketer recently made a remarkable start to his international career by taking 36 wickets in his first six test matches?

INTERMEDIATE (2 pts each)

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Which of these New Zealand cities is furthest north: Gisborne, Rotorua or Hamilton?

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Which major southern South Island industrial complex uses bauxite ore as one of its main raw materials?

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Which Oscarwinning 2001 film starred Russell Crowe as Nobel laureate and schizophrenic Dr John Nash?

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What prosaic nickname did

William Larnach give to what is now called Larnach Castle?

EXPERT (3 pts each)

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Damien Hirst’s controversial artwork The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living features which preserved

animal?

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Which American city’s major sports venues include Wrigley Field?

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Which song originally recorded by the Rolling Stones in 1978 became a hit for Bette Midler in 1984?