SA Weekend: Test your knowledge in the Brainwaves quiz for August 8-9

This week in the quiz, bring your knowledge of 1960s movies, African countries, the human body, European languages, Elvis Presley’s music and Harry Potter’s family tree.

Question 1. In the 1967 film The Graduate, what name did Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) assume to book into the Taft Hotel to meet Mrs Robinson (Anne Baxter)? (AP Photo/File)

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question: In the 1967 film The Graduate, what name did Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) assume to book into the Taft Hotel to meet Mrs Robinson (Anne Baxter)?

option: Mr Gladstone

answer: 1

question: What is the official language of Denmark?

option: Danish

answer: 1

question: What does maniform mean?

option: Having the shape or form of a hand

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name

a two-word Adelaide suburb – RDDAAAEESSTHPMGN.

option: Hampstead Gardens

answer: 1

question: Which country is Australia’s largest trading partner?

option: China

answer: 1

question: Who composed the oratorio Elijah?

option: Felix Mendelssohn

answer: 1

question: How many American states begin with the letter P?

option: One (Pennsylvania)

answer: 1

question: Dublin, the capital of Ireland, is on the banks of which river?

option: Liffey

answer: 1

question: Who is South Australia’s Transport Minister?

option: Corey Wingard

answer: 1

question: By population, what is South Africa’s largest city?

option: Johannesburg

answer: 1

question: Add the number of sides on a dodecagon to the number of sides on an icosagon.

option: 32 (12 plus 20)

answer: 1

question: What is the penultimate month of the year?

option: November

answer: 1

question: What is the missing word in this palindrome: Do ... see God?

option: Geese

answer: 1

question: Who is No. 12 for AFL club Adelaide?

option: Daniel Talia

answer: 1

question: What is sericulture?

option: The cultivation of silkworms to produce silk

answer: 1

question: In a leap year, what is the 64th day of the year?

option: March 4

answer: 1

question: Which word is used in the US for the boot of a car?

option: Trunk

answer: 1

question: In which Australian television soap

opera did teenage surfer Alan Fisher (Simon Kay) die in 1988?

option: Home & Away

answer: 1

question: Arrange these letters in reverse alphabetical order: ORGANISED.

option: SRONIGEDA

answer: 1

question: The works of which Flemish artist include the 1433 painting commonly referred to as Man in a Red Turban?

option: Jan van Eyck

answer: 1

question: How many pairs of chromosomes does each human have?

option: 23

answer: 1

question: For which bus company did Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) work in the 1950s US situation comedy series The Honeymooners?

option: Gotham Bus Company

answer: 1

question: Who is Harry Potter’s godfather?

option: Sirius Black

answer: 1

question: How is the first name of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams pronounced?

option: Rafe

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, what is the mother of invention?

option: Necessity

answer: 1

question: Which instrument did Canadian jazz musician Maynard Ferguson play?

option: Trumpet

answer: 1

question: What is a group of owls called?

option: A parliament

answer: 1

question: The song Seventy-Six Trombones comes from which musical?

option: The Music Man

answer: 1

question: Who was Australia’s first Aboriginal senator?

option: Neville Bonner

answer: 1

question: Multiply 123 by 321.

option: 39,483

answer: 1

question: Which comic strip cat has a teddy bear called Pooky?

option: Garfield

answer: 1

question: Cataracts affect which part of the body?

option: Eyes

answer: 1

question: What are the two most abundant elements in the Earth’s crust?

option: Oxygen, silicon

answer: 1

question: Who sang Dum Dum, a No. 1 hit in Adelaide in 1961?

option: Brenda Lee

answer: 1

question: What colour is the top band on the flag of Russia?

option: White

answer: 1

question: The wife of which nursery rhyme character could eat no lean?

option: Jack Sprat

answer: 1

question: In a game of darts, a “baby ton” is a score of how many?

option: 95

answer: 1

question: Odisha is a state of which country?

option: India

answer: 1

question: After whom is the Australian state of Victoria named?

option: Queen Victoria

answer: 1

question: What was the codename of US Navy pilot Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) in the 1986 film Top Gun?

option: Maverick

answer: 1

question: Who was FIFA World Player of the Year in 1998, 2000 and 2003?

option: Zinedine Zidane

answer: 1

question: What type of rodent is the cartoon character Speedy Gonzales?

option: A mouse

answer: 1

question: In which city were the 1972 Summer Olympics held?

option: Munich

answer: 1

question: On which day of the week will September begin this year?

option: Tuesday

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the first of the six colours on a Rubik’s cube?

option: Blue

answer: 1

question: Which adjective can precede the words chocolate, dog and metal?

option: Hot

answer: 1

question: Hepatitis is an inflammatory condition of which organ?

option: The liver

answer: 1

question: How do Americans pronounce the letter Z?

option: Zee

answer: 1

question: Which Elvis Presley hit begins “We’re caught in a trap”?

option: Suspicious Minds

answer: 1

question: In which month is Father’s Day celebrated annually in Australia?

option: September

answer: 1