Brainwaves quiz: Can you name the entrepreneur married to Serena Williams?

Can you name the entrepreneur married to Serena Williams? What kind of trees do acorns come from? See how many of these 50 pop culture and general knowledge questions you can get right.

Can you name the entrepreneur married to Serena Williams? Picture: George Salpigtidis

Welcome to this week’s Brainwaves Quiz! Put your skills to the test with the 50 brain teasers Marty Smith has curated this week. When you’re finished, scroll to the end to see the answers. And no cheating! Good luck.

1. Name the world’s first cloned sheep.

2. Name the 1934 Cole Porter song about the lynching of a society woman after she murders her unfaithful lover.

3. How old was Queen Elizabeth II when she died in September?

4. Name the internet entrepreneur who is married to tennis player Serena Williams.

5. A spider has how many legs?

6. Acorns come from what kind of trees?

7. Unscramble these letters to name an Adelaide suburb: WEIKKSC.

8. Who sings the current hit Flowers?

9. What is the total number of days in September, October and November?

10. What is the square root of 400?

11. How many eyes did pop music’s Purple People Eater have?

12. What was the name of the dog in the television situation comedy series The Beverly Hillbillies?

13. Name the coloured tissue at the front of the eye that contains the pupil in the centre.

14. What is the largest bird in the world?

15. By area, what is England’s largest lake?

16. Which US singer’s voice was described by country music artist Dwight Yoakam as the “cry of an angel falling backward through an open window”?

17. Who was the first woman to host the Academy Awards?

18. In which Australian capital city should a letter addressed with the postcode 2037 be delivered?

19. In which country is the Great Pyramid of Giza?

20. Who played boxer Jake La Motta in the 1980 film Raging Bull?

21. In which year was colour television officially introduced in Australia?

22. Alphabetically, who is the third of Walt Disney’s Seven Dwarfs?

A scene from Disney’s 'Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs'.

23. What is the US national motto?

24. Who directed the 2012 film Life of Pi?

25. Name the body of water between Kangaroo Island and Yorke Peninsula.

26. Which nursery rhyme character sat on a wall before he had a great fall?

27. What is the German word for the number two?

28. A source of many unpredictable or unexpected problems is colloquially a can of … what?

29. Proverbially, what is thicker than water?

30. What is America’s Golden State?

31. What is the star sign of a person born on November 1?

32. How old is the Pope?

33. Who wrote the 1936 book How to Win Friends and Influence People?

34. What was the name of Harry Potter’s pet owl?

35. Sibylle Szaggars is the wife of which US actor?

36. Sr is the symbol for which chemical element?

37. Name the fictional town that was home to the characters in the 1960s US animated television situation comedy series The Flintstones.

38. Is the numerator above or below the line in a fraction?

39. Who was the senior coach of AFL club Essendon from 2016-20?

40. Who skateboards naked in the 2007 animated comedy film The Simpsons Movie?

41. Who wrote the 1960 book To Kill a Mockingbird?

42. Which hit by The Rolling Stones begins: “I was born in a crossfire hurricane”?

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards performing at Hard Rock Live on November 23, 2021 in Hollywood, Florida. Picture: Jason Koerner /WireImage

43. Name the President of France.

44. The Egyptian god Sobek is often depicted as a human with the head of which reptile?

45. How many colours are in a rainbow?

46. What is the monetary unit of Laos?

47. What is cock-a-leekie?

48. Which country has Olympic code JOR?

49. In the nursery rhyme Old King Cole, what is the first item the title character calls for?

50. Who was the first mortal woman in Greek mythology?