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Bruce Springsteen performs on stage during "The Rriver” tour in 2016 in the northern Spanish Basque city of San Sebastian. Photo by Ander Gillenea / 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: According to Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography Born to Run, how old was he when he first tried alcohol - 22, 42 or 62?

option: 22

answer: 1

question: What nationality was 17th-century explorer Abel Tasman, after whom Tasmania was named?

option: Dutch

answer: 1

question: How many dice are used in the game Yahtzee?

option: Five

answer: 1

question: Which European capital is known as the Eternal City?

option: Rome

answer: 1

question: Which character created by William Shakespeare says: “Honour is a mere scutcheon”?

option: Sir John Falstaff

answer: 1

question: Who was Australia’s 26th Governor-General from 2014-19?

option: Sir Peter Cosgrove

answer: 1

question: Was 1994 a leap year?

option: No

answer: 1

question: Which animal is “man’s best friend”?

option: Dog

answer: 1

question: What is the title character’s surname in The Who’s rock opera Tommy?

option: Walker

answer: 1

question: Which is the only vowel not used as the first letter of an American state?

option: E

answer: 1

question: How many syllables are in the word hydroxychloroquine?

option: Six

answer: 1

question: How many times has Australia hosted the Summer Olympics?

option: Twice (Melbourne 1956, Sydney 2000)

answer: 1

question: In the 1958 novelty hit The Purple People Eater, how many eyes does the title character have?

option: One

answer: 1

question: Bucephalus was the famous horse of which ancient Macedonian leader?

option: Alexander the Great

answer: 1

question: The musical Annie Get Your Gun is based on the life of which US sharpshooter?

option: Annie Oakley

answer: 1

question: Into which body of water does the Mississippi River flow?

option: Gulf of Mexico

answer: 1

question: To which section of an orchestra does the trombone belong?

option: Brass

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, what makes the heart grow fonder?

option: Absence

answer: 1

question: What does the nursery rhyme character Little Jack Horner pull out of a Christmas pie?

option: Plum

answer: 1

question: How many two-digit palindromic numbers are between 10 and 99 inclusive?

option: Nine

answer: 1

question: Which country has the Olympic code LBN?

option: Lebanon

answer: 1

question: In which year did Cyclone Tracy devastate Darwin?

option: 1974

answer: 1

question: Which is the only country that begins with “Gh”?

option: Ghana

answer: 1

question: Who played oil magnate Blake Carrington in the prime time television soap opera Dynasty?

option: John Forsythe

answer: 1

question: How many days are in the last three months of the year?

option: 92

answer: 1

question: What does a rosarian grow?

option: Roses

answer: 1

question: What was US poet Henry Longfellow’s middle name?

option: Wadsworth

answer: 1

question: Which sea separates the Netherlands from the east coast of England?

option: North Sea

answer: 1

question: The Cesar is which country’s equivalent of an Academy Award?

option: France’s

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the first capital city of an Australian state?

option: Adelaide

answer: 1

question: How many pockets are on a pool table?

option: Six

answer: 1

question: In which year did Australia convert to decimal currency?

option: 1966

answer: 1

question: What nationality is professional tennis player Andrey Rublev?

option: Russian

answer: 1

question: What is YInMn – a coding language, an inorganic blue pigment or a personal computer game?

option: Inorganic blue pigment

answer: 1

question: What is the cube of 27?

option: 19,683

answer: 1

question: What colour is the starboard light on a ship?

option: Green

answer: 1

question: In which year during World War II did the Battle of the Coral Sea take place?

option: 1942

answer: 1

question: What is the name of Broken Hill’s main street?

option: Argent St

answer: 1

question: Which Australian singer released the 2003 album Innocent Eyes?

option: Delta Goodrem

answer: 1

question: Which famous Paris landmark is mentioned in the lyrics of the song I Am the Walrus by The Beatles?

option: Eiffel Tower

answer: 1

question: Complete the title of this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical: The Phantom of the …

option: Opera

answer: 1

question: Which US architect won an international competition to design Canberra?

option: Walter Burley Griffin

answer: 1

question: Who played the title role in the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia?

option: Peter O’Toole

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the robot, below left, in the Australian television game how Perfect Match in the 1980s?

option: Dexter

answer: 1

question: By area, what is Australia’s largest state?

option: Western Australia

answer: 1

question: In which continent are the Jura Mountains?

option: Europe

answer: 1

question: How many Mondays are in March 2021?

option: Five

answer: 1

question: What is the smallest planet in our solar system?

option: Mercury

answer: 1

question: In Surf City, a 1963 hit for US vocal duo Jan and Dean, there are two girls for every what?

option: Boy

answer: 1

question: It’s an offence in Scotland to be drunk while in charge of a cow – true or false?

option: True

answer: 1