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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: Which country donated the State of Liberty to the US?

option: France

answer: 1

question: A bimillennium is a period of how many years?

option: 2000

answer: 1

question: Are scallops molluscs or crustaceans?

option: Molluscs

answer: 1

question: Who was the first person in space?

option: Yuru Gagarin

answer: 1

question: Which member of The Beatles is holding a trumpet on the cover of the album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?

option: Ringo Starr

answer: 1

question: What nationality is Tadej Pogacar, right, winner of the 2021 Tour de France?

option: Slovenian

answer: 1

question: Which Australian author wrote the 1974 book Tim?

option: Colleen McCullough

answer: 1

question: In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, which character says: “Neither a borrower nor a lender be ...”?

option: Polonius

answer: 1

question: What sport do the Boston Celtics play?

option: Basketball

answer: 1

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

option: Three

answer: 1

question: Who sang the 1958 hit Hard Headed Woman?

option: Elvis Presley

answer: 1

question: How old is Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) in the 1990 film Home Alone?

option: Eight

answer: 1

question: In which modern-day country are the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh?

option: Iraq

answer: 1

question: How many of Walt Disney’s Seven Dwarfs begin with the letter D?

option: Two (Doc, Dopey)

answer: 1

question: Who directed the 1974 Australian film The Cars That Ate Paris?

option: Peter Weir

answer: 1

question: The Egyptian god Apis took the form of which animal?

option: Bull

answer: 1

question: Does a stalagmite or a stalactite hang from the ceiling of a cave?

option: Stalactite

answer: 1

question: What do the letters in the illness SARS stand for?

option: Severe acute respiratory syndrome

answer: 1

question: In which Australian capital city is the suburb of Lindfield?

option: Sydney

answer: 1

question: Name the US golfer who won the British Open on July 18.

option: Collin Morikawa

answer: 1

question: Published in 1998, what was the title of the second Harry Potter book?

option: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

answer: 1

question: Who directed Michael Jackson’s 1983 music video Thriller?

option: John Landis

answer: 1

question: When is a crepuscular animal active?

option: Twilight

answer: 1

question: What is eupepsia?

option: Good digestion

answer: 1

question: Which pioneer US film director had the first names David Wark?

option: D.W Griffith

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name an Adelaide suburb – YAAEHPNM.

option: Payneham

answer: 1

question: Physicist and mathematician Mileva Maric was the first wife of which famous fellow physicist?

option: Albert Einstein

answer: 1

question: Name the first Italian to reach a Wimbledon singles final.

option: Matteo Berrettini (2021 men’s)

answer: 1

question: Which Olympics where scheduled for 1940 before they were canned by the war?

option: Tokyo

answer: 1

question: Which movie was wrongly named as best picture at the 2017 Oscars?

option: La La Land

answer: 1

question: What were the two letters and two numbers on McHale’s boat in the US television situation comedy series McHale’s Navy?

option: PT 73

answer: 1

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

option: Seven

answer:

question: Miguel Diaz-Canel is which country’s president?

option: Cuba’s

answer: 1

question: What is the largest moon in the solar system?

option: Ganymede (moon of Jupiter)

answer:

question: “Cab sav” is the colloquial abbreviation for what type of red wine?

option: Cabernet sauvignon

answer: 1

question: Cape Agulhas is the southernmost point of which continent?

option: Africa

answer: 1

question: In The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, what kind of creature is Mang?

option: Bat

answer: 1

question: In the NATO phonetic alphabet, which word represents the letter R?

option: Romeo

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Fiji?

option: Fijian dollar

answer: 1

question: How many horns does the mythological unicorn have?

option: One

answer: 1

question: What is the fourth sign of the zodiac?

option: Cancer

answer: 1

question: To where is the train bound in the Kenny Rogers’ hit The Gambler?

option: Nowhere

answer: 1

question: How many eyes does a bee have?

option: Five

answer: 1

question: Tom Joad is the leading character in which John Steinbeck novel?

option: The Grapes of Wrath

answer: 1

question: Ouagadougou is the capital of which African country?

option: Burkina Faso

answer: 1

question: In which year did South Australian-born singer-songwriter Wes Carr win the sixth season of Australian Idol?

option: 2008

answer: 1

question: What does the botanical term “apetalous” mean?

option: Having no petals

answer: 1

question: In which European city is the Rembrandt House Museum?

option: Amsterdam

answer: 1

question: Which television character had the nickname Little Aussie Bleeder?

option: Norman Gunston (played by Garry McDonald)

answer: 1

question: Name the English Romantic poet who wrote: “Wine is only sweet to happy men.”

option: John Keats

answer: 1