Test your knowledge of news, sport and pop culture in Brainwaves, the SA Weekend quiz for October 8-9, 2022

Which sport is featured in the 2002 Australian film Crackerjack? Take our Brainwaves quiz – 50 general knowledge questions and an interactive template that keeps score as you go.

Which sport is featured in the 2002 Australian film Crackerjack? Picture: Comedian / actor Mick Molloy and actor Samuel Johnson.

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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: The Mediterranean island of Corsica is a region of which country?

option: France

answer: 1

question: Where did US singer Michael Jackson perform in Adelaide in 1996?

option: Adelaide Oval

answer: 1

question: Which word means both a bone of the human forearm and a part of a circle?

option: Radius

answer: 1

question: Who founded Aussie Home Loans in 1992?

option: John Symond

answer: 1

question: Which two American states border California to the east?

option: Nevada, Arizona

answer: 1

question: What is 35 per cent of 60?

option: 21

answer: 1

question: The Loddon Valley Highway is in which Australian state?

option: Victoria

answer: 1

question: What is Australia’s national gemstone?

option: Opal

answer: 1

question: The song The Lonely Goatherd comes from which musical?

option: The Sound of Music

answer: 1

question: The Pritzker Prize is an international award presented annually in which field?

option: Architecture

answer: 1

question: Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognise what?

option: Faces

answer: 1

question: Who recorded the 2011 album Making Mirrors?

option: Gotye

answer: 1

question: What is the only film in which Australian actor George Lazenby played James Bond?

option: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

answer: 1

question: Which team played in five successive VFL grand finals from 1974-78?

option: North Melbourne

answer: 1

question: Which Tasmanian city is at the mouth of the Mersey River?

option: Devonport

answer: 1

question: Which large reptile gets its name from the Spanish words “el lagarto”, meaning “the lizard”?

option: Alligator

answer: 1

question: What does the musical direction “presto” mean?

option: In a very fast tempo

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the first of the three major periods in the Mesozoic Era?

option: Cretaceous

answer: 1

question: How many points is the brown ball worth in a game of snooker?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: Bishkek is the capital city of which country?

option: Kyrgyzstan

answer: 1

question: Europa is a moon of which planet?

option: Jupiter

answer: 1

question: “Visual yoga” is an anagram of which former country?

option: Yugoslavia

answer: 1

question: What is the primary component of natural gas?

option: Methane

answer: 1

question: What will be the host country of the 2022 FIFA World Cup?

option: Qatar

answer: 1

question: Insulin is produced in which organ of the body?

option: Pancreas

answer: 1

question: Which word rhymes with “late” and means to detest?

option: Hate

answer: 1

question: Luxembourgish, German and which other language are the three official languages of Luxembourg?

option: French

answer: 1

question: In which year was US president Abraham Lincoln assassinated?

option: 1865

answer: 1

question: In which year will Halley’s Comet next be visible from Earth?

option: 2061

answer: 1

question: Helen Porter Mitchell, who became a famous operatic soprano, was better known by what name?

option: Dame Nellie Melba

answer: 1

question: What do the letters in the UN agency UNESCO stand for?

option: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation

answer: 1

question: How many horizontal stripes are on the flag of India?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: Michelle Payne rode which horse to victory in the 2015 Melbourne Cup?

option: Prince of Penzance

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the echidna mascot at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney?

option: Millie

answer: 1

question: In which country is Islam’s holiest city of Mecca?

option: Saudi Arabia

answer: 1

question: Which prime number is closest to 70?

option: 71

answer: 1

question: Who was Australia’s first governor-general?

option: The Earl of Hopetoun

answer: 1

question: Matthew Jaensch played for which AFL team from 2010-16?

option: Adelaide

answer: 1

question: How many yards are in a mile?

option: 1760

answer: 1

question: Who designed the winged keel for Australia II, the winning yacht in the 1983 America’s Cup?

option: Ben Lexcen

answer: 1

question: What are the three main body parts of an insect?

option: Head, thorax, abdomen

answer: 1

question: Which sport is featured in the 2002 Australian film Crackerjack?

option: Lawn bowls

answer: 1

question: What is the closest capital city to Broken Hill?

option: Adelaide

answer: 1

question: In which two years were the Summer Olympics cancelled due to World War II?

option: 1940, 1944

answer: 1

question: “I’m lovin’ it” is a slogan of which fast food chain?

option: McDonald’s

answer: 1

question: Who was the first player to win three Brownlow Medals?

option: Haydn Bunton Sr

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1964 book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

option: Ian Fleming

answer: 1

question: Who directed the 1963 film The Birds?

option: Alfred Hitchcock

answer: 1

question: Which country is nicknamed the Land of the Long White Cloud?

option: New Zealand

answer: 1

question: Mt Bogong is the highest peak in which Australian state?

option: Victoria

answer: 1