Brainwaves, the SA Weekend quiz for November 6, 2021: Test your knowledge of news, sport and pop culture

Which country made voodoo an official religion? And what is aichmophobia? Take our Brainwaves quiz of 50 general knowledge questions – we’ll keep score!

One Caribbean country made voodoo an official religion in 2003 ... but which one?

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question: Which Indian Ocean island country is the only habitat for all wild lemurs in the world?

option: Madagascar

answer: 1

question: What is aichmophobia?

option: Fear of sharp, pointed objects

answer: 1

question: How many circles of hell are in Dante’s epic poem Inferno?

option: Nine

answer: 1

question: What sport does Adelaide-born Thanasi Kokkinakis play professionally?

option: Tennis

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the Cisco Kid’s sidekick?

option: Pancho

answer: 1

question: What does a lexicographer compile?

option: Dictionary

answer: 1

question: How many members does the UN Security Council have?

option: 15

answer: 1

question: In which Charlotte Bronte novel is Edward Rochester a major character?

option: Jane Eyre

answer: 1

question: Name the two stars of the 1980s US television comedy-drama series Moonlighting.

option: Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd

answer: 1

question: How many times did US golfer Tom Watson win the British Open?

option: Five

answer: 1

question: Which was not a Rosella double-strength soup in the early 1960s – tomato, minestrone, asparagus, celery or cream of chicken?

option: Minestrone

answer: 1

question: In which Caribbean country was voodoo granted official religious status in 2003?

option: Haiti

answer: 1

question: In which 1986 film did singer, songwriter and actor David Bowie star as a goblin king?

option: Labyrinth

answer: 1

question: What is the longest nerve in the human body?

option: Sciatic

answer: 1

question: Gaborone is the capital of which African country?

option: Botswana

answer: 1

question: What is the traditional gift for a 13th wedding anniversary?

option: Lace

answer: 1

question: Name the managing director of the ABC.

option: David Anderson

answer: 1

question: Complete the saying: If it ain’t broke …

option: Don’t fix it

answer: 1

question: On what surface is the sport of curling played?

option: Ice

answer: 1

question: Into which ocean does Africa’s Zambezi River flow?

option: Indian

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name an Adelaide suburb – LAAADUN.

option: Auldana

answer: 1

question: Which fictional hospital was the setting for the Australian television soap opera The Young Doctors?

option: Albert Memorial

answer: 1

question: How many children did Queen Victoria have?

option: Nine

answer: 1

question: Eagle Farm is a racecourse in which Australian capital city?

option: Brisbane

answer: 1

question: Which letter is immediately to the left of B on a standard keyboard?

option: V

answer: 1

question: Chiapas is a state of which country?

option: Mexico

answer: 1

question: Which US city was the setting for the 1958 Elvis Presley film King Creole?

option: New Orleans

answer: 1

question: Which legendary creature appears on the Welsh flag?

option: Dragon

answer: 1

question: Which country led the Manhattan Project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II?

option: United States

answer: 1

question: The Uffizi Gallery is an art museum in which Italian city?

option: Florence

answer: 1

question: In the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle, what does the cow jump over?

option: The moon

answer: 1

question: In a leap year, what is the 95th day of the year?

option: April 4

answer: 1

question: Unmasked is the 2018 memoir of which English composer?

option: Andrew Lloyd Webber

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the poem The Man from Snowy River?

option: AB “Banjo” Patterson

answer: 1

question: What is US actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s middle name?

option: Wilhelm

answer: 1

question: In which year was Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, born?

option: 1982

answer: 1

question: By what other two-word name beginning with H is the animal known as the ratel called?

option: Honey badger

answer: 1

question: Which is America’s Bluegrass State?

option: Kentucky

answer: 1

question: Who played the title role in the 1996 film Evita?

option: Madonna

answer: 1

question: Who is the youngest daughter of Shakespeare’s King Lear?

option: Cordelia

answer: 1

question: What are the colours of the stripes on the flag of Malaysia?

option: Red, white

answer: 1

question: What does an aqueduct carry?

option: Water

answer: 1

question: In which Australian state is the city of Grafton?

option: NSW

answer: 1

question: Who led the Eureka Stockade uprising in 1854?

option: Peter Lalor

answer: 1

question: Sprue is the name given to the first pickings of which vegetable?

option: Asparagus

answer: 1

question: Who captained England in the Centenary Test cricket match against Australia at the MCG in 1977?

option: Tony Greig

answer: 1

question: In which continent are the Queen Maud Mountains?

option: Antarctica

answer: 1

question: The song I Enjoy Being a Girl comes from which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?

option: Flower Drum Song

answer: 1

question: What is the first name of the title character in the Puccini opera Tosca?

option: Floria

answer: 1

question: What sport do the Adelaide Thunderbirds play?

option: Netball

answer: 1