Test your knowledge of news, sport and pop culture in Brainwaves, the SA Weekend quiz for November 5-6, 2022

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In which country was actor Charlize Theron born in 1975? Picture: Frazer Harrison /Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Festival

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** Test your pop culture and current affairs knowledge with this week’s Brainwaves Quiz. Decide your answer then click on the answer button to see if you were correct. We’ll tally your score as you go. **

question: When quoting a time, what do the letters GMT stand for?

option: Greenwich Mean Time

answer: 1

question: How many points is the letter X worth in the standard English version of Scrabble?

option: Eight

answer: 1

question: Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is on which island?

option: Java

answer: 1

question: Name the British Prime Minister.

option: Rishi Sunak

answer: 1

question: Where in the human body is the cuboid bone?

option: Foot

answer: 1

question: Malaria is caused by which insect?

option: Mosquito

answer: 1

question: Dover is the capital of which American state?

option: Delaware

answer: 1

question: In which Australian state is the Lachlan River?

option: NSW

answer: 1

question: Which hit by The Beatles begins: “I think I’m gonna be sad”?

option: Ticket to Ride

answer: 1

question: In which year was the Australian $2 banknote replaced by the $2 coin?

option: 1988

answer: 1

question: Who has been appointed coach of AFL club St Kilda for the next four seasons?

option: Ross Lyon

answer: 1

question: The extinct dodo was a native of which Indian Ocean island?

option: Mauritius

answer: 1

question: Stromboli was a villain in which 1940 animated Disney film?

option: Pinocchio

answer: 1

question: What were the first names of English-American author P.G. Wodehouse?

option: Pelham Grenville

answer: 1

question: Launched in 2015, Astrosat is which country’s first space telescope?

option: India’s

answer: 1

question: Lilongwe is which country’s capital city?

option: Malawi’s

answer: 1

question: Ash Wednesday is the first day of which Christian observance?

option: Lent

answer: 1

question: Mt Aso is which country’s largest active volcano?

option: Japan’s

answer: 1

question: Which Apollo mission was the first manned spacecraft to reach the moon’s orbit?

option: Apollo 8

answer: 1

question: “Blurry mail” is an anagram of which US actor?

option: Bill Murray

answer: 1

question: What colour are US singer-actor Barbra Streisand’s eyes?

option: Blue

answer: 1

question: What is dendrophobia?

option: Fear of trees

answer: 1

question: In which year did Phar Lap win the Melbourne Cup?

option: 1930

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the poem On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer?

option: John Keats

answer: 1

question: Who created the private detective Philip Marlowe?

option: Raymond Chandler

answer: 1

question: Which country occupies the largest part of the Arabian Peninsula?

option: Saudi Arabia

answer: 1

question: Douala is the chief port of which African country?

option: Cameroon

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Poland?

option: Polish zloty

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the zebra in the 2005 animated film Madagascar?

option: Marty

answer: 1

question: Tattoo You was a 1981 album by which band?

option: The Rolling Stones

answer: 1

question: Who was the host of the Australian program The Inventors on ABC-TV in 1973?

option: Geoff Stone

answer: 1

question: How many symbols are used in the Roman numeral system?

option: Seven

answer: 1

question: Who was the Roman god of fire?

option: Vulcan

answer: 1

question: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and which other American state border the Gulf of Mexico?

option: Florida

answer: 1

question: What colour is Dizzy, the cement-mixer, in Bob the Builder’s Can-Do Crew?

option: Orange

answer: 1

question: Which is the fifth planet from the sun?

option: Jupiter

answer: 1

question: The song Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ comes from which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?

option: Oklahoma!

answer: 1

question: What type of meat is used to make traditional Japanese katsudon?

option: Pork

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1955 book The Quiet American?

option: Graham Greene

answer: 1

question: Who is fourth in the line of succession to the British throne?

option: Prince Louis of Wales

answer: 1

question: Which poem by A.B. “Banjo” Paterson begins: “I had written him a letter …”?

option: Clancy of the Overflow

answer: 1

question: Rearrange these six three-letter groups to make two capital cities: ISL EDI AMA RGH BAD NBU.

option: Edinburgh, Islamabad

answer: 1

question: A period of notable success or good luck is called a patch of what colour?

option: Purple

answer: 1

question: In which sport do New Zealand and Australia compete for the Constellation Cup?

option: Netball

answer: 1

question: What were the first names of the two Slagg Brothers in the animated television series Wacky Races?

option: Rock, Gravel

answer: 1

question: In which country was actor Charlize Theron born in 1975?

option: South Africa

answer: 1

question: Which country was awarded the George Cross in World War II?

option: Malta

answer: 1

question: Who officially opened the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?

option: Queen Elizabeth II

answer: 1

question: The Cape Portland Important Bird Area is in which Australian state?

option: Tasmania

answer: 1

question: In 1821, Peru declared its independence from which country?

option: Spain

answer: 1