Test your knowledge of news, sport and pop culture in Brainwaves, the SA Weekend quiz for September 24-25, 2022

Who voices adult Simba in 1994’s The Lion King? Take our Brainwaves quiz – 50 general knowledge questions and an interactive template that keeps score as you go.

Adult Simba in a scene from The Lion King.

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question: Name the seven countries which border Ukraine.

option: Russia, Poland, Belarus, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Moldova

answer: 1

question: What can be a surgical knife, an arch and a weekly medical journal?

option: Lancet

answer: 1

question: Harald V is the monarch of which Scandinavian country?

option: Norway

answer: 1

question: Small or unimportant items that are found together, especially ones that have no connection with each other, are called flotsam and what?

option: Jetsam

answer: 1

question: What is the longest river in Italy?

option: Po

answer: 1

question: Who composed the 1934 opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk?

option: Dmitri Shostakovich

answer: 1

question: The Golden Lion is the highest prize given to a movie at which annual film festival?

option: Venice Film Festival

answer: 1

question: The Princess of Wales has how many siblings?

option: Two

answer: 1

question: How many degrees are in a circle?

option: 360

answer: 1

question: Who was the speaking voice of adult Simba in the 1994 animated film The Lion King?

option: Matthew Broderick

answer: 1

question: Who won the men’s singles final at the US Open tennis championships on September 11?

option: Carlos Alcaraz

answer: 1

question: In the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle, what runs away with the spoon?

option: The dish

answer: 1

question: After nitrogen and oxygen, what is the third most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere?

option: Argon

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1897 book Dracula?

option: Bram Stoker

answer: 1

question: The first name of which of the six children in the US television situation comedy series The Brady Bunch comes first alphabetically?

option: Bobby

answer: 1

question: Who played palaeontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 film Jurassic Park?

option: Sam Neill

answer: 1

question: What is between the Year of the Rat and the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese zodiac?

option: Year of the Ox

answer: 1

question: Name a palindromic fashion magazine.

option: Elle

answer: 1

question: What is the common name for acetylsalicylic acid?

option: Aspirin

answer: 1

question: B is the symbol of which chemical element?

option: Boron

answer: 1

question: The medical test spinal tap is also known as what kind of puncture?

option: Lumbar

answer: 1

question: In which country is the Angara River?

option: Russia

answer: 1

question: What was the maiden name of the character played by Kylie Minogue in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours?

option: Mitchell

answer: 1

question: Which member of the pop group The Monkees had the initials M.N.?

option: Michael Nesmith

answer: 1

question: Who directed the 1954 film Rear Window?

option: Alfred Hitchcock

answer: 1

question: Name the only bachelor US president.

option: James Buchanan

answer: 1

question: Which part of a wine bottle is the punt?

option: Indentation in the base

answer: 1

question: The two words in the name of which Sydney suburb are the sounds of two letters of the alphabet?

option: Dee Why

answer: 1

question: First published in 1986, who wrote the book It?

option: Stephen King

answer: 1

question: The Long Call horn solo is part of which opera by Richard Wagner?

option: Siegfried

answer: 1

question: Which English author disappeared for 11 days in 1926?

option: Agatha Christie

answer: 1

question: Name the NSW Premier.

option: Dominic Perrottet

answer: 1

question: Which US metropolis is known as the City that Never Sleeps?

option: New York City

answer: 1

question: In the traditional British version of the board game Monopoly, what colour is Trafalgar Square?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: In the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, by what name is the character Philip Pirrip better known?

option: Pip

answer: 1

question: The Lord’s Prayer usually ends with which four-letter word?

option: Amen

answer: 1

question: What do speleologists study?

option: Caves

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of the country of Sweden?

option: Swedish krona

answer: 1

question: What is the highest mountain on the moon?

option: Mons Huygens

answer: 1

question: Name the US cartoonist who created the comic strip Dick Tracy.

option: Chester Gould

answer: 1

question: How old is Camilla, the Queen Consort?

option: 75

answer: 1

question: Which country is the birthplace of the Olympic Games?

option: Greece

answer: 1

question: Supporters called the Magpie Army barrack for which AFL club?

option: Collingwood

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Afghanistan?

option: Kabul

answer: 1

question: What colour is “e” in the Google logo?

option: Red

answer: 1

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

option: Five

answer: 1

question: What does an ichthyologist study?

option: Fish

answer: 1

question: Appointed in 1931, who was the first Australian-born governor-general of Australia?

option: Sir Isaac Isaacs

answer: 1

question: On the cover of which 1979 album are New York City’s twin World Trade Centre towers partially obscured by a glass of orange juice?

option: Breakfast in America (Supertramp)

answer: 1

question: Who played Sam Wheat in the 1990 film Ghost?

option: Patrick Swayze

answer: 1