Test your knowledge of news, sport and pop culture in Brainwaves, the SA Weekend quiz for 3-4 September, 2022

In which year did Michael Klim win both of his Olympic gold medals? Take our Brainwaves quiz – 50 general knowledge questions and an interactive template that keeps score as you go.

In which year did Australian swimmer Michael Klim win both of his Olympic gold medals?

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question: How many ships were in the First Fleet which left England for Australia in 1787?

option: 11

answer: 1

question: What do the letters in LED technology stand for?

option: Light emitting diode

answer: 1

question: Name the US B-29 bomber which dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.

option: Enola Gay

answer: 1

question: Who is the coach of the Adelaide Strikers cricket team?

option: Jason Gillespie

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, the darkest hour is just before what?

option: The dawn

answer: 1

question: How many five-pointed stars are on the Australian flag?

option: One

answer: 1

question: What was the surname of Bender in the animated television series Futurama?

option: Rodriguez

answer: 1

question: Name the Prime Minister of Finland.

option: Sanna Marin

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the play King Lear?

option: William Shakespeare

answer: 1

question: An emerald wedding anniversary signifies how many years of marriage?

option: 55

answer: 1

question: Who was the first American to win the Nobel prize for Literature?

option: Sinclair Lewis (1930)

answer: 1

question: Who is South Australia’s Minister for Housing and Urban Development?

option: Nick Champion

answer: 1

question: How many inches are in a foot?

option: 12

answer: 1

question: What type of animal is a shiba inu?

option: Dog

answer: 1

question: Which horse won the first Melbourne Cup?

option: Archer

answer: 1

question: The Valley is the capital of which British Overseas Territory?

option: Anguilla

answer: 1

question: Which Australian children’s author created Snugglepot and Cuddlepie?

option: May Gibbs

answer: 1

question: A decagon has how many sides?

option: 10

answer: 1

question: “I love a sunburnt country” is the first line of the second verse of which famous Australian poem by Dorothea Mackellar?

option: My Country

answer: 1

question: In 1985, US oceanographer Robert Ballard discovered the wreck of which famous ship?

option: Titanic

answer: 1

question: In the 1963 hit Surf City by US vocal duo Jan & Dean, there are two what for every boy?

option: Girls

answer: 1

question: The AFLW has expanded to how many teams for the 2022 season?

option: 18

answer: 1

question: In the NATO phonetic alphabet, which letter is represented by a word ending in “or”?

option: V (Victor)

answer: 1

question: Which woman is featured on the Australian $100 banknote?

option: Dame Nellie Melba

answer: 1

question: Stephen Harper was which country’s 22nd prime minister?

option: Canada’s

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name a plant: ENOAAIILLGBUV.

option: Bougainvillea

answer: 1

question: A quartet is a group of how many people playing music or singing together?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: Name the famous prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England.

option: Stonehenge

answer: 1

question: “Tiga” is the Indonesian word for which number?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: What is claustrophobia?

option: Fear of confined spaces

answer: 1

question: What colour is the Mr Men character Mr Bounce?

option: Yellow

answer: 1

question: Who plays Prince Daemon Targaryen in the TV drama series House of the Dragon?

option: Matt Smith

answer: 1

question: Which punctuation mark is also the name of part of the digestive system?

option: Colon

answer: 1

question: What burst into flames during the opening credits of the US television western series Bonanza?

option: Map

answer: 1

question: How many horns did a triceratops have?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: Who was prime minister of Australia in 1980?

option: Malcolm Fraser

answer: 1

question: Which three letters of the Greek alphabet have names ending in “on”?

option: Epsilon, omicron, upsilon

answer: 1

question: In which year did Australian swimmer Michael Klim win both of his Olympic gold medals?

option: 2000

answer: 1

question: How many minutes are in 57 hours?

option: 3420

answer: 1

question: Gondolas are a form of water transport in which Italian city?

option: Venice

answer: 1

question: Who was the male star of the 1936 film Modern Times?

option: Charlie Chaplin

answer: 1

question: What is the nickname of the Australian women’s national rugby union team?

option: Wallaroos

answer: 1

question: Carrauntoohil is which country’s highest mountain?

option: Ireland’s

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Honduras?

option: Honduran lempira

answer: 1

question: Who was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

option: Aretha Franklin (1987)

answer: 1

question: Which country is the world’s second-largest economy?

option: China

answer: 1

question: Io is a moon of which planet?

option: Jupiter

answer: 1

question: Which capital city is an anagram of the word “more”?

option: Rome

answer: 1

question: What is the French word for “sea”?

option: Mer

answer: 1

question: By population, Valencia is which European country’s third-largest city?

option: Spain’s

answer: 1