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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: After whom is Flinders University named?

option: English navigator Matthew Flinders

answer: 1

question: Which Teletubby plays with an orange ball?

option: Laa-Laa

answer: 1

question: Beginning with H, what is the more common name for pollinosis?

option: Hay fever

answer: 1

question: Who is the patron saint of animals?

option: St Francis of Assisi

answer: 1

question: Name the Premier of New South Wales.

option: Dominic Perrottet

answer: 1

question: Torn was a 1997 hit for which Sydney-born singer-songwriter?

option: Natalie Imbruglia

answer: 1

question: “It was love at first sight” is the opening sentence of which book by US author Joseph Heller?

option: Catch-22

answer: 1

question: Who was South Australia’s first premier?

option: B. (Boyle) T. (Travers) Finniss

answer: 1

question: The song June Is Bustin’ Out All Over comes from which musical?

option: Carousel

answer: 1

question: Who replaced Tony Barber as host of the quiz show Sale of the Century on Channel 9 in 1991?

option: Glenn Ridge

answer: 1

question: Who lives “down the lane” in the nursery rhyme Baa Baa Black Sheep?

option: The little boy

answer: 1

question: What colour are the two horizontal stripes on the back of Pikachu, a short, chubby rodent Pokemon?

option: Brown

answer: 1

question: What material is used in the craft of origami?

option: Paper

answer: 1

question: What is 400 in Roman numerals?

option: CD

answer: 1

question: In the 2000 Australian film The Dish, which sport is played on the dish (radio telescope)?

option: Cricket

answer: 1

question: What is the more common name of Hansen’s disease?

option: Leprosy

answer: 1

question: Which three-letter alcoholic drink is made from molasses?

option: Rum

answer: 1

question: What did U.N.C.L.E. stand for in the television series The Man From   U.N.C.L.E.?

option: United Network Command for Law and Enforcement

answer: 1

question: Who composed the music for West Side Story?

option: Leonard Bernstein

answer: 1

question: How old was US actor Marilyn Monroe when she died in 1962?

option: 36

answer: 1

question: In which year was the fifth Adelaide Festival of Arts?

option: 1968

answer: 1

question: How many hours are in 11 days?

option: 264

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Greenland?

option: Nuuk

answer: 1

question: Name the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

option: Imran Khan

answer: 1

question: Name the New Zealand golfer who won the inaugural Australian Masters tournament in 1979.

option: Barry Vivian

answer: 1

question: Who played selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt in the 1988 film Rain Man?

option: Tom Cruise

answer: 1

question: Who is Australia’s Trade Minister?

option: Dan Tehan

answer: 1

question: What is the surname of the fictional pilot known as Biggles?

option: Biggles-worth

answer: 1

question: Who was Australia’s first female Olympic gold medallist?

option: Fanny Durack (swimming,1912)

answer: 1

question: “Rotates” is an anagram of which kitchen appliance?

option: Toaster

answer: 1

question: Name Adelaide Zoo’s two giant pandas, below left.

option: Wang Wang, Fu Ni

answer: 1

question: In the book Pickwick Papers by English author Charles Dickens, who is Mr Pickwick’s valet?

option: Sam Weller

answer: 1

question: Which animal appears on the flag of Sri Lanka?

option: Lion

answer: 1

question: How many times did Kingston Town win the W.S. Cox Plate?

option: Three (1980, 1981, 1982)

answer: 1

question: Titania is the largest moon of which planet?

option: Uranus

answer: 1

question: Which vehicle brand’s logo is a three-pointed star in a circle?

option: Mercedes-Benz

answer: 1

question: The South Australian town of Morgan is on which river?

option: Murray

answer: 1

question: Who is chairman and chief executive office of Facebook?

option: Mark Zuckerberg

answer: 1

question: In which sport is the Bledisloe Cup contested between Australia and New Zealand?

option: Rugby union

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the play The Tempest?

option: William Shakespeare

answer: 1

question: Where in the human body is the stapes bone?

option: Middle ear

answer: 1

question: World War I ended in which month of 1918?

option: November

answer: 1

question: What is the usual English word for the target ball in the game of petanque?

option: Jack

answer: 1

question: Who proclaimed himself emperor of France in 1804?

option: Napoleon Bonaparte

answer: 1

question: A Leesider comes from which Irish city?

option: Cork

answer: 1

question: Who founded Playboy magazine?

option: Hugh Hefner

answer: 1

question: What were the first names of English author E.M. Forster?

option: Edward Morgan

answer: 1

question: Who played motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in the 1953 film The Wild One?

option: Marlon Brando

answer: 1

question: The two largest islands in the Mediterranean belong to which country?

option: Italy (Sicily, Sardinia)

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1952 book The Old Man and the Sea?

option: Ernest Hemingway

answer: 1