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Released in 2003, what was the name of English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse’s debut album? Photo by Shaun Curry / AFP

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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 country are the ruins of the ancient city of Petra?

option: Jordan

answer: 1

question: Which Beijing-based technology company owns the mobile app TikTok?

option: ByteDance

answer: 1

question: Which team won Super Bowl LVI on February 13?

option: Los Angeles Rams

answer: 1

question: By population, what is the largest city in Alaska?

option: Anchorage

answer: 1

question: Released in 2003, what was the title of English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse’s debut album?

option: Frank

answer: 1

question: In which year did the Sydney Harbour Bridge open?

option: 1932

answer: 1

question: What is zoophobia?

option: Fear of animals

answer: 1

question: Name the bellows mender in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare.

option: Francis Flute

answer: 1

question: In Greek mythology, who was the mother of Zeus?

option: Rhea

answer: 1

question: In which year did Britain win the Eurovision Song Contest with Puppet on a String performed by Sandie Shaw?

option: 1967

answer: 1

question: Which Scottish engineer devised a mathematical way to equate horses to engine power?

option: James Watt

answer: 1

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

option: Six

answer: 1

question: What colour were the giant illuminated telephone handsets on the roofs of Dino’s Dial-a-Pizza delivery vehicles in Adelaide in the 1980s?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: Which three countries share a border with Luxembourg?

option: Belgium, Germany, France

answer: 1

question: How many people played the web-based word game Wordle on November 1, 2021: 90, 9000, 90,000 or 900,000?

option: 90

answer: 1

question: In which 1969 film did Australian actor George Lazenby play James Bond?

option: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

answer: 1

question: What colour is the District line on a map of the London Underground?

option: Green

answer: 1

question: US actor Brooke Shields was married to which famous tennis player from 1997-99?

option: Andre Agassi

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name a two-word Adelaide suburb: HAABIORLTL.

option: Blair Athol

answer: 1

question: How many long triangles (called points or pips) are on a backgammon board?

option: 24

answer: 1

question: Name the Australian author of the 1985 book Illywhacker.

option: Peter Carey

answer: 1

question: Which US film director bought Rosebud, the sled made for the classic 1941 film Citizen Kane, in 1982?

option: Steven Spielberg

answer: 1

question: What was the surname of pioneer aviation brothers Orville and Wilbur?

option: Wright

answer: 1

question: What is former US president Barack Obama’s middle name?

option: Hussein

answer: 1

question: In which Australian television game show could contestants “buy a vowel”?

option: Wheel of Fortune

answer: 1

question: Who was Australian prime minister when World War II began?

option: Robert Menzies

answer: 1

question: What was the nickname of Australian surfing champion Bernard Farrelly?

option: Midget

answer: 1

question: Which English city is scheduled to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games?

option: Birmingham

answer: 1

question: Who recently announced she would retire as host of the ABC-TV program 7.30 later this year?

option: Leigh Sales

answer: 1

question: A number is multiplied by itself nine times, then divided by 19,683 to return to the original number. What is the number?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: By what name is French philosopher Francois-Marie Arouet better known?

option: Voltaire

answer: 1

question: Who starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1942 film Casablanca?

option: Ingrid Bergman

answer: 1

question: What are the Roman numerals for the number 19?

option: XIX

answer: 1

question: Which Bruce Springsteen song begins “I get up in the evening”?

option: Dancing in the Dark

answer: 1

question: In which Austrian city was Mozart born in 1756?

option: Salzburg

answer: 1

question: What is the Italian word for the number four?

option: Quattro

answer: 1

question: Which three-letter word completes the following longer words: ---er, sk---y, m---ow?

option: Inn (inner, skinny, minnow)

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Argentina?

option: Buenos Aires

answer: 1

question: Scottish physician Alexander Fleming is credited with the discovery of what in 1928?

option: Penicillin

answer: 1

question: Which Canadian singer-songwriter released the 1971 album Blue?

option: Joni Mitchell

answer: 1

question: How many hydrogen atoms are in a water molecule?

option: Two

answer: 1

question: From which substance is worsted made?

option: Wool

answer: 1

question: What was the surname of the London family which adopted Paddington Bear?

option: Brown

answer: 1

question: Often called the Queen’s “favourite son”, who is ninth in the line of succession to the British throne?

option: Prince Andrew, Duke of York

answer: 1

question: What is the next prime number after 101?

option: 103

answer: 1

question: “Jackass, I purr” is an anagram of which Steven Spielberg film?

option: Jurassic Park

answer: 1

question: Genghis Khan ruled which empire?

option: Mongol

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Malta?

option: Euro

answer: 1

question: What connects evangelist Billy Graham, aviation pioneer Samuel Cody and actor John Candy?

option: They all have the middle name Franklin

answer: 1

question: Johor is a state of which country?

option: Malaysia

answer: 1