Super quiz

BEGINNER (1pt each)

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Which term used to mean linen and soft furnishings comes from the name of one of the main English mill centres of the Industrial Revolution?

➋

What name is given to a hardboiled egg wrapped in sausage meat and coated in bread crumbs, which is then baked or fried?

➌

Which European country was the colonial power in Algeria until 1960?

INTERMEDIATE (2pt each)

➍

Whereabouts in Otago is Lake Wilkie?

➎

Who took over from Franklin D. Roosevelt as American President in the closing stages of World War 2?

➏

Which Otago cricketing great in 1949 became New Zealand’s first Sportsman of the Year?

➐

What is the nature of the controversial psychiatric practice, more widely used in the past than today, of ECT?

EXPERT (3pt each)

➑

Michael Jackson had nine siblings, most of them singers. What are the first names of his three singing sisters?

➒

Which power plant in Pennsylvania was the site of a major nuclear incident in 1979, the largest such incident before Chernobyl?

➓ What, in New Zealand local government, was the ARA?