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Port Adelaide's Russell Ebert crashes into Glenelg's Peter Marker to claim a mark in 1974 preliminary final at Football Park. September, 1974.

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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: How many Magarey Medals did Port Adelaide player Russell Ebert win?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: How often does a septennial event occur?

option: Every seven years

answer: 1

question: In bingo, which number is represented by the traditional call of “two little ducks”?

option: 22

answer: 1

question: Beginning with c, what is the more common name for the human body’s zygomatic bone?

option: Cheekbone

answer: 1

question: Which musical is set in the year AD 780?

option: Pippin

answer: 1

question: Name the three countries that begin with “Ch”.

option: Chad, Chile, China

answer: 1

question: Name the chief health officer of NSW.

option: Dr Kerry Chant

answer: 1

question: What sport do the Perth Wildcats play?

option: Basketball

answer: 1

question: Which letter is immediately to the right of T on a standard keyboard?

option: Y

answer: 1

question: How many red stripes are on the US flag?

option: Seven

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, what makes Jack a dull boy?

option: All work and no play

answer: 1

question: Stratus, cirrus, cumulus and nimbus are major types of what?

option: Clouds

answer: 1

question: How many vowels are in the word “Lithuania”?

option: Five

answer: 1

question: Who sang the 2011 hit The A Team?

option: Ed Sheeran

answer: 1

question: Which country is the largest producer of vanilla?

option: Madagascar

answer: 1

question: What colour are the title character’s eyes in the 1958 Johnny Cash hit Ballad of a Teenage Queen?

option: Blue

answer: 1

question: According to Greek mythology, who was the first mortal woman?

option: Pandora

answer: 1

question: Which buy now, pay later company was launched by Sydney entrepreneurs Anthony Eisen and Nick Molnar in 2014?

option: Afterpay

answer: 1

question: What are the Roman numerals for 20?

option: XX

answer: 1

question: How many quadrants are in a circle?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: Which US city was the setting for the television situation comedy series The Golden Girls?

option: Miami

answer: 1

question: What colour is at the top of a rainbow?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: In which country did Heineken beer originate?

option: The Netherlands

answer: 1

question: What is a young pigeon called?

option: Squab (or squeaker)

answer: 1

question: What is the capital city of Spain?

option: Madrid

answer: 1

question: In music, what is the highest female singing voice?

option: Soprano

answer: 1

question: A trapezium has how many sides?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: What form of entertainment is often performed under a “Big Top”?

option: Circus

answer: 1

question: What is Australia’s northernmost city?

option: Darwin

answer: 1

question: Name the first American to travel in space.

option: Alan Shepard

answer: 1

question: In which country is the state of Assam?

option: India

answer: 1

question: Who composed The Ring cycle of operas?

option: Richard Wagner

answer: 1

question: In the board game Cluedo, which weapon begins with the letter “c”?

option: Candlestick

answer: 1

question: Name the Dutch clairvoyant who came to Adelaide in the 1960s in an effort to find the missing Beaumont children.

option: Gerard Croiset

answer: 1

question: The lyrics “I don’t wanna miss a single thing you do tonight” come from which 2010 hit by US band Train?

option: Hey, Soul Sister

answer: 1

question: The dinosaur triceratops had how many horns on its skull?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: Which city has been chosen to host the 2028 Summer Olympics?

option: Los Angeles

answer: 1

question: In which 1942 film does Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) say: “We’ll always have Paris”?

option: Casablanca

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name an Adelaide suburb: STAOOEDW.

option: Eastwood

answer: 1

question: How many wheels does a unicycle have?

option: One

answer: 1

question: James Marape, pictured below, is which country’s prime minister?

option: Papua New Guinea’s

answer: 1

question: Cohibar is a brand of what?

option: Cigar

answer: 1

question: “Sieben” means seven in which language?

option: German

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the first colour of the five interlocking Olympic rings?

option: Black

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Egypt?

option: Egyptian pound

answer: 1

question: Which famous poem by Rudyard Kipling has a one-word title of two letters?

option: If

answer: 1

question: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

option: SpongeBob SquarePants

answer: 1

question: Almost all piccolo trumpets have how many valves?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: Who played sportswriter Oscar Madison in the television situation comedy series The Odd Couple?

option: Jack Klugman

answer: 1

question: What is the first element on the periodic table?

option: Hydrogen

answer: 1