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He was the original Yellow Wiggle. What’s his name?

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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: Who played Basil Fawlty in the British television situation comedy series Fawlty Towers?

option: John Cleese

answer: 1

question: Who had a hit with SOS in 2006?

option: Rihanna

answer: 1

question: Who co-hosted the short-lived Australian reality television series Celebrity Splash! with Larry Emdur on Channel 7 in 2013?

option: Kylie Gillies

answer: 1

question: How many syllables are in the name of the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca?

option: Five

answer: 1

question: In which country is the westernmost point of mainland Europe?

option: Portugal

answer: 1

question: Which American state is the setting for the 1962 book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by US author Ken Kesey?

option: Oregon

answer: 1

question: In an orchestra, which musician is the concertmaster?

option: First violinist

answer: 1

question: Which Norwegian playwright is often referred to as “the father of realism”?

option: Henrik Ibsen

answer: 1

question: How many Test wickets did Australian cricketer Shane Warne take?

option: 708

answer: 1

question: A standard chess set has how many pieces?

option: 32

answer: 1

question: Which mainland African country has the longest coastline?

option: Somalia

answer: 1

question: The 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle was partially inspired by which 1957 film?

option: An affair to remember

answer: 1

question: What is otalgia?

option: Earache

answer: 1

question: Name the British Prime Minister

option: Boris Johnson

answer: 1

question: In which country are the 2022 Winter Olympics scheduled to take place?

option: China

answer: 1

question: Who immediately preceded John Howard as Prime Minister of Australia?

option: Paul Keating

answer: 1

question: Which U2 hit begins “I want to run, I want to hide”?

option: Where the Streets Have No Name

answer: 1

question: What is the nickname of the Australian men’s national field hockey team?

option: Kookaburras

answer: 1

question: Traditionally, plain licorice is which colour?

option: Black

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the play The History Boys?

option: Alan Bennett

answer: 1

question: What does an ombrometer measure?

option: Rainfall

answer: 1

question: Who was the original yellow Wiggle?

option: Greg Page

answer: 1

question: How many letters are in the English alphabet?

option: 26

answer: 1

question: In a play, how many characters deliver a soliloquy?

option: One

answer: 1

question: Which book by English author Charles Dickens is set in the fictional industrial city of Coketown?

option: Hard Times

answer: 1

question: Which country owns Easter Island in the southeast Pacific Ocean?

option: Chile

answer: 1

question: Wile E. Coyote often buys devices from which mail-order company to help him catch the Road Runner?

option: Acme Corporation

answer: 1

question: Who is Titania’s husband in William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream?

option: Oberon

answer: 1

question: “Christ send ills” is an anagram of which 1993 Steven Spielberg film?

option: Schindler’s List

answer: 1

question: Lake Titicaca, the world’s highest navigable body of water, is on the border of which two South American countries?

option: Bolivia, Peru

answer: 1

question: Boggis, Bunce and Bean are three dimwitted farmers in which book by British author Roald Dahl?

option: Fantastic Mr Fox

answer: 1

question: Phlebitis is an inflammation of which part of the body?

option: Vein

answer: 1

question: Who was the famous daughter of American Indian chief Powhatan?

option: Pocahontas

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Malaysia?

option: Kuala Lumpur

answer: 1

question: Fanny Price is a leading character in which book by English author Jane Austen?

option: Mansfield Park

answer: 1

question: What does the expression “join the choir invisible” mean?

option: To die

answer: 1

question: Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, is in which country?

option: Tanzania

answer: 1

question: In which year was the Battle of Trafalgar?

option: 1805

answer: 1

question: In 1981, Gro Harlem Brundtland became the first female prime minister of which country?

option: Norway

answer: 1

question: Who composed the piano piece Fur Elise?

option: Ludwig van Beethoven

answer: 1

question: “We fight for fair” is a slogan of which Australian legal firm?

option: Morris Blackburn Lawyers

answer: 1

question: The faces of how many US presidents are carved into the granite of Mt Rushmore in the American state of South Dakota?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name an Adelaide suburb: AAOOPRK

option: Pooraka

answer: 1

question: What sport do the South Sydney Rabbitohs play?

option: Rugby League

answer: 1

question: What is the middle name of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s newborn daughter?

option: Diana

answer: 1

question: Which stage and film musical is based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw?

option: My Fair Lady

answer: 1

question: Which farming tool is associated with the Grim Reaper?

option: Scythe

answer: 1

question: In which sea are the Balearic Islands?

option: Mediterranean

answer: 1

question: What is served in a drink if it is “on the rocks”?

option: Ice

answer: 1

question: Which word represents the letter “F” in the NATO phonetic alphabet?

option: Foxtrot

answer: 1