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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: In which Australian capital city was professional golfer Adam Scott born in 1980?

option: Adelaide

answer: 1

question: Which colour is associated with envy?

option: Green

answer: 1

question: Name the Acting Premier of Victoria.

option: James Merlino

answer: 1

question: The letter “z” appears twice in the title of which book by English author Charles Dickens?

option: (The Life and Adventures of) Martin Chuzzlewit

answer: 1

question: Which element is called “aurum” in Latin?

option: Gold

answer: 1

question: In the children’s television series Sesame Street, what is the name of Big Bird’s teddy bear?

option: Radar

answer: 1

question: Who quit the French Open tennis tournament last week after a press conference dispute?

option: Naomi Osaka

answer: 1

question: What is the real first name of legendary English heavy-metal singer Ozzy Osbourne?

option: John

answer: 1

question: Who skippered the yacht Australia II to victory in the 1983 America’s Cup?

option: John Bertrand

answer: 1

question: Who played James Bond in the 1971 film Diamonds Are Forever?

option: Sean Connery

answer: 1

question: Name the pet scallop of SpongeBob SquarePants.

option: Shelley

answer: 1

question: Santa Claus is a variety of melon – true or false?

option: True

answer: 1

question: What is Charlie’s surname in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory book (1964) and film (2005)?

option: Bucket

answer: 1

question: How old is US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan?

option: 80

answer: 1

question: The words “gave”, “gas” and “byre” can be made from letters in the surname of which English entertainer?

option: (Max) Bygraves

answer: 1

question: Which chemical element has the symbol Kr?

option: Krypton

answer: 1

question: What is the star sign of a person born on April 30?

option: Taurus

answer: 1

question: How many American states have 13 letters in their name?

option: Three (Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina)

answer: 1

question: Who played the title role in the 1981 film Arthur?

option: Dudley Moore

answer: 1

question: The US television situation comedy series Laverne & Shirley, pictured below, was a spin-off of which other sitcom?

option: Happy Days

answer: 1

question: What is the postcode of the Adelaide suburb of Norwood?

option: 5067

answer: 1

question: How many gold medals did Australia win at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne – 3, 13 or 23?

option: 13

answer: 1

question: In which year did the gourmet Food Hall in David Jones Rundle Mall store permanently close?

option: 2014

answer: 1

question: What is the driest inhabited continent?

option: Australia

answer: 1

question: How many holes are on a standard golf course?

option: 18

answer: 1

question: Which two 20th-century Australian Prime Ministers had surnames beginning with B?

option: Edmund Barton, Stanley Bruce

answer: 1

question: Beginning with E, what name is given to a catchy piece of music that continuously occupies a person’s mind even after it is no longer being played?

option: Earworm

answer: 1

question: Which country owns the Aegean island of Lesbos?

option: Greece

answer: 1

question: The seguidilla, a dance in triple time, comes from which country?

option: Spain

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Japan?

option: Japanese yen

answer: 1

question: Which much-loved Mark Twain character is transformed into a lost soul in a song by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds?

option: Huckleberry Finn (song Saint Huck)

answer: 1

question: In which year did the Normans under William the Conqueror defeat the English at the Battle of Hastings?

option: 1066

answer: 1

question: Which 1964 film starred Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret?

option: Viva Las Vegas

answer: 1

question: The action in the 1975 novel The Eagle Has Landed, by English author Jack Higgins, takes place in which war?

option: World War II

answer: 1

question: What is 35 per cent of 120?

option: 42

answer: 1

question: “Rent quainnation” is an anagram of which US film director?

option: Quentin Tarantino

answer: 1

question: Name the actor, who played Captain Merrill Stubing in the television series The Love Boat, who died last month.

option: Gavin MacLeod

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Bermuda?

option: Hamilton

answer: 1

question: In which European country is the state of Lower Saxony?

option: Germany

answer: 1

question: Multiply the number of days in June by the number of days in July.

option: 930 (30 x 31)

answer: 1

question: Do the Western Bulldogs win or lose in a current television commercial for insurance company AAMI, featuring the Bulldogs captain Marcus Bontempelli?

option: Lose

answer: 1

question: The African nation of Chad gained its independence from which country in 1960?

option: France

answer: 1

question: What does the letter E stand for in the four STEM disciplines?

option: Engineering

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, what is the spice of life?

option: Variety

answer: 1

question: Which team won the 2004 AFL Grand Final?

option: Port Adelaide

answer: 1

question: How many feet are in 100 yards?

option: 300

answer: 1

question: Who is Australia’s Home Affairs Minister?

option: Karen Andrews

answer: 1

question: Who is most associated with the role of the King in the musical The King and I?

option: Yul Brynner

answer: 1

question: The title of which 1972 Barbra Streisand film is the same as the catchphrase of a Looney Tunes character?

option: What’s up, Doc? (Looney Tunes character Bugs Bunny)

answer: 1

question: What is the Welsh name for Wales?

option: Cymru

answer: 1