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How old is US actor Tom Cruise? Pictured, Tom Cruise attends the Korea red carpet for Top Gun: Maverick at Lotte World on June 19, 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. Picture: Han Myung-Gu / Getty Images

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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: Most tortoiseshell cats are which sex?

option: Female

answer: 1

question: The location of which former Adelaide department store was advertised for many years as “on the Square”, a reference to Victoria Square?

option: Moore’s (Charles Moore & Co)

answer: 1

question: Who was the principal of Madison High School in the 1950s US television situation comedy series Our Miss Brooks?

option: Osgood Conklin

answer: 1

question: Who played the title characters in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde?

option: Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty

answer: 1

question: Which horse won the 2022 Caulfield Cup?

option: Durston

answer: 1

question: How old is US actor Tom Cruise?

option: 60

answer: 1

question: Name the President of China.

option: Xi Jinping

answer: 1

question: In which year was Halley’s Comet last visible from Earth?

option: 1986

answer: 1

question: Julia Carey is the wife of which English actor, comedian and television host?

option: James Corden

answer: 1

question: In which town do the Flintstones live?

option: Bedrock

answer: 1

question: Which US city is the setting for the Elvis Presley hit In the Ghetto?

option: Chicago

answer: 1

question: By population, Lahore is which country’s second-largest city?

option: Pakistan’s

answer: 1

question: Story Bridge is in which Australian capital city?

option: Brisbane

answer: 1

question: “Rock bay annual” is an anagram of which English playwright?

option: Alan Ayckbourn

answer: 1

question: US actor Richard Chamberlain played which television doctor?

option: Dr James Kildare

answer: 1

question: How many white keys are on a standard piano?

option: 52

answer: 1

question: A triangle has how many sides?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: Who played James Bond in the 1999 film The World Is Not Enough?

option: Pierce Brosnan

answer: 1

question: A number is multiplied by itself four times, then divided by 194,481 to return to the original number. What is that number?

option: 21

answer: 1

question: Who is Australia’s Davis Cup captain?

option: Lleyton Hewitt

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1992 book The Bridges of Madison County?

option: Robert James Waller

answer: 1

question: What is the back-to-front slang spoken by French teenagers called?

option: Verlan

answer: 1

question: Who is the host of the reality series Kitchen Nightmares Australia on Channel 7?

option: Colin Fassnidge

answer: 1

question: The northernmost point of the US is in which state?

option: Alaska

answer: 1

question: Sounds Good Feels Good was a 2015 album by which Australian band?

option: 5 Seconds Of Summer

answer: 1

question: Using the chemical symbols, what group of people can be made from phosphorus, iridium, astatine and einsteinium?

option: P-Ir-At-Es

answer: 1

question: Name the horse ridden by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo.

option: Copenhagen

answer: 1

question: On which day of the week does Christmas Day fall this year?

option: Sunday

answer: 1

question: Croke Park is which country’s largest sporting arena?

option: Ireland’s

answer: 1

question: Wuhan is the capital of which Chinese province?

option: Hubei

answer: 1

question: How old was actor Angela Lansbury when she died on October 11?

option: 96

answer: 1

question: What is the name of the dog in Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven books?

option: Scamper

answer: 1

question: How many South American countries begin with the letter U?

option: One (Uruguay)

answer: 1

question: Which song in the stage musical Wicked includes the lyrics: “Everyone deserves the chance to fly!”?

option: Defying Gravity

answer: 1

question: Mr Brocklehurst is a character in which book by Charlotte Bronte?

option: Jane Eyre

answer: 1

question: Thimphu is the capital of which Asian country?

option: Bhutan

answer: 1

question: Which animated rooster made his screen debut in the 1946 cartoon Walky Talky Hawky?

option: Foghorn Leghorn

answer: 1

question: The African country of Sierra Leone has a coastline on which ocean?

option: Atlantic

answer: 1

question: The song Love Changes Everything comes from which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical?

option: Aspects of Love

answer: 1

question: Name the only horse to win the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and W.S. Cox Plate in the same year.

option: Rising Fast (1954)

answer: 1

question: In the 1989 Billy Joel song We Didn’t Start the Fire, which US singer comes between Peter Pan and Disneyland?

option: Elvis Presley

answer: 1

question: Bangladesh declared its independence from which country in 1971?

option: Pakistan

answer: 1

question: Who is the federal Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme?

option: Bill Shorten

answer: 1

question: How many minutes are in two weeks?

option: 20,160

answer: 1

question: What is the northernmost country in Africa?

option: Tunisia

answer: 1

question: What did English author and critic Aldous Huxley call “19 suburbs in search of a metropolis”?

option: Los Angeles

answer: 1

question: The Blue Lake is in which South Australian city?

option: Mt Gambier

answer: 1

question: In rugby union, how many points are scored for a penalty?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: Who is the captain of AFLW team Port Adelaide?

option: Erin Phillips

answer: 1

question: Who directed the 1991 film JFK?

option: Oliver Stone

answer: 1