Test your knowledge of news, sport and pop culture in Brainwaves, the SA Weekend quiz for November 26-26, 2022

What is the name of Dorothy’s dog in The Wizard of Oz? Who was the 45th US president? Take our Brainwaves quiz – 50 general knowledge questions and an interactive template that keeps score as you go.

What is the name of Dorothy’s dog in the film The Wizard of Oz? Picture: Actor Judy Garland and Terry the dog (aka Toto), in scene from film "The Wizard of Oz".

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question: What is the name of Dorothy’s dog in the film The Wizard of Oz?

option: Toto

answer: 1

question: Which ABBA song begins: “I don’t wanna talk about things we’ve gone through”?

option: The Winner Takes It All

answer: 1

question: “Because life happens” is an advertising slogan of which private health insurer?

option: Bupa

answer: 1

question: Who was the 45th US president?

option: Donald Trump

answer: 1

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

option: Five

answer: 1

question: Danny Zuko is one of the main characters in which musical?

option: Grease

answer: 1

question: In the Greek alphabet, which letter comes between beta and delta?

option: Gamma

answer: 1

question: What is the capital city of Scotland?

option: Edinburgh

answer: 1

question: Which famous 19th-century woman was nicknamed the “Lady of the Lamp”?

option: Florence Nightingale

answer: 1

question: Who plays the title role in the 2001 film Donnie Darko?

option: Jake Gyllenhaal

answer: 1

question: Silk is a nickname of which former AFL player who retired at the end of the 2021 season?

option: Shaun Burgoyne

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the ancient Greek tragedy The Bacchae?

option: Euripides

answer: 1

question: Which war is the setting of the book A Farewell to Arms by US author Ernest Hemingway?

option: World War I

answer: 1

question: The Mediterranean island of Sardinia belongs to which country?

option: Italy

answer: 1

question: Which Australian singer-songwriter wrote the 2009 book The Death of Bunny Munro?

option: Nick Cave

answer: 1

question: What is Israel’s busiest airport?

option: Ben Gurion Airport

answer: 1

question: Before the euro, what was the monetary unit of Italy?

option: Italian lira

answer: 1

question: What is 75 per cent of 500?

option: 375

answer: 1

question: Who sailed the ketch Gipsy Moth IV solo around the world in 1966-67?

option: Francis Chichester

answer: 1

question: In which year did Malcolm Blight coach AFL club Adelaide for the last time?

option: 1999

answer: 1

question: Who plays Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films?

option: Tom Felton

answer: 1

question: Dzongkha is the official language of which Asian kingdom?

option: Bhutan

answer: 1

question: Who was the first Labor prime minister of Australia?

option: Chris Watson

answer: 1

question: What nationality is tennis player Dominic Thiem?

option: Austrian

answer: 1

question: Bathsheba Everdene, Fanny Robin and William Boldwood are characters in which book by English author Thomas Hardy?

option: Far from the Madding Crowd

answer: 1

question: Which fictional traveller visited an imaginary land called Glubbdubdrib?

option: Lemuel Gulliver

answer: 1

question: Released in 1992, what was the last Carry On film?

option: Carry On Columbus

answer: 1

question: Who presented the hunting segment in the Adelaide television children’s program Channel Niners in the early 1960s?

option: Bill Hambly Clark

answer: 1

question: Who plays the title role in the 1982 film Gandhi?

option: Ben Kingsley

answer: 1

question: How many feet are in a mile?

option: 5280

answer: 1

question: In which country were emojis invented?

option: Japan

answer: 1

question: What was the real first name of Rocky, the flying squirrel, in the Rocky and Bullwinkle television series?

option: Rocket

answer: 1

question: Name the five countries which surround the landlocked South American nation of Bolivia.

option: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru

answer: 1

question: The Brockton Blockbuster was a nickname of which US professional boxer?

option: Rocky Marciano

answer: 1

question: What number do the Roman numerals DCCC represent?

option: 800

answer: 1

question: Yad Vashem is which country’s Holocaust memorial?

option: Israel’s

answer: 1

question: What is Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s middle name?

option: Norman

answer: 1

question: Which musical instrument makes a shrill sound called a skirl?

option: Bagpipes

answer: 1

question: What is the colour of the Central line on a map of the London Underground?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: In which country was singer-songwriter-guitarist Neil Young born in 1945?

option: Canada

answer: 1

question: In Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night, who disguises herself as the pageboy Cesario?

option: Viola

answer: 1

question: What was Mary’s surname in the US television situation comedy series The Mary Tyler Moore Show?

option: Richards

answer: 1

question: The aria O Isis und Osiris comes from which Mozart opera?

option: The Magic Flute

answer: 1

question: What was the last thing to remain in Pandora’s box?

option: Hope

answer: 1

question: The real name of which Spanish hero was Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar?

option: El Cid

answer: 1

question: In which year did Apple release the first iMac computer?

option: 1998

answer: 1

question: How many Academy Awards did the 1997 film Titanic win?

option: 11

answer: 1

question: Who won the ICC men’s T20 World Cup final at the MCG on November 13?

option: England

answer: 1

question: Who was US singer Michael Jackson’s first wife?

option: Lisa Marie Presley

answer: 1

question: In which century were the Wars of the Roses?

option: 15th

answer: 1