Test your knowledge of news, sport and pop culture in Brainwaves, the SA Weekend quiz for August 6-7, 2022

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question: Chevy is a nickname for which make of car?

option: Chevrolet

answer: 1

question: How many centimetres are in half a metre?

option: 50

answer: 1

question: In which country was film director Jane Campion born in 1954?

option: New Zealand

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name a two-word Adelaide suburb: RSDRAEILPKNF.

option: Flinders Park

answer: 1

question: Who was the Roman god of war?

option: Mars

answer: 1

question: Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan are leading characters in which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?

option: Carousel

answer: 1

question: Which two Australian states meet at Haddon Corner?

option: South Australia, Queensland

answer: 1

question: Recep Tayyip Erdogan is which country’s president?

option: Turkey’s

answer: 1

question: Which Hawaiian island is known as “The Gathering Place”?

option: Oahu

answer: 1

question: Which of the six colours on a traditional Rubik’s cube is second alphabetically?

option: Green

answer: 1

question: What is the title of Beyonce’s new album?

option: Renaissance

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Ecuador?

option: US dollar

answer: 1

question: Which category in the classic version of Trivial Pursuit begins with H?

option: History

answer: 1

question: By what two-letter name is US rapper Kanye West now legally known?

option: Ye

answer: 1

question: Guernica is a famous anti-war painting by which Spanish artist?

option: Pablo Picasso

answer: 1

question: Appaloosa is a breed of which animal?

option: Horse

answer: 1

question: What is the official language of the African republic of Mozambique?

option: Portuguese

answer: 1

question: To which section of an orchestra does the trombone belong?

option: Brass

answer: 1

question: What is the 22nd letter of the English alphabet?

option: V

answer: 1

question: In its own language, which country is called Sverige?

option: Sweden

answer: 1

question: Currently being built in The Netherlands, what is Y721?

option: Luxury superyacht being constructed for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos

answer: 1

question: Who presented the short-lived reality series Undercover Angels on Channel 7 in 2002?

option: Ian Thorpe

answer: 1

question: What do the letters tbsp, a measurement used in cooking, stand for?

option: Tablespoon

answer: 1

question: Jenny Shipley was which country’s first female prime minister?

option: New Zealand’s

answer: 1

question: Which team did Port Adelaide play in its first AFL premiership match in 1997?

option: Collingwood

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, what shouldn’t you put in one basket?

option: All your eggs

answer: 1

question: What nationality was fashion designer Jeanne Lanvin?

option: French

answer: 1

question: Who is the leader of the Australian Greens?

option: Adam Bandt

answer: 1

question: What are the Roman numerals for 49?

option: XLIX

answer: 1

question: Who played the title role in the 2019 film Captain Marvel?

option: Brie Larson

answer: 1

question: What is the code word for E in the NATO phonetic alphabet?

option: Echo

answer: 1

question: Used as a thickening agent in soup or sauce, a roux is a combination of equal parts flour and what?

option: Fat (most common being butter or meat drippings)

answer: 1

question: Gdansk is one of the oldest cities in which country?

option: Poland

answer: 1

question: What is the total number of days in August, September and October?

option: 92 (August 31, September 30, October 31)

answer: 1

question: How many colours are on the flag of Kuwait?

option: Four (green, white, red, black)

answer: 1

question: A cube has how many faces?

option: Six

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1955 book The Talented Mr Ripley?

option: Patricia Highsmith

answer: 1

question: Which Neil Diamond hit includes the lyrics “Call the sun in the dead of the night”?

option: Holly Holy

answer: 1

question: Which German dictator was Time magazine’s Man of the Year in 1938?

option: Adolf Hitler

answer: 1

question: Sir Toby Belch is a character in which play by William Shakespeare?

option: Twelfth Night

answer: 1

question: “Ablutions” is an anagram of which retired athlete?

option: Usain Bolt

answer: 1

question: What is the colour of Mickey Mouse’s nose?

option: Black

answer: 1

question: How many syllables are in the word “xylophone”?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: In which city did the 2022 Tour de France begin on July 1?

option: Copenhagen

answer: 1

question: What is misandry?

option: Hatred of men

answer: 1

question: Who played the Sundance Kid in the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

option: Robert Redford

answer: 1

question: In which year during World War II did Germany begin its occupation of Denmark?

option: 1940

answer: 1

question: In which European city is the Arc de Triomphe?

option: Paris

answer: 1

question: Who was president of The Philippines from 1965-86?

option: Ferdinand Marcos

answer: 1

question: Who won the 2022 Logie for Most Popular New Talent?

option: Tony Armstrong (sports presenter of the ABC’s News Breakfast

answer: 1