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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: What is US President Joe Biden’s middle name?

option: Robinette

answer: 1

question: Which strait connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea?

option: Strait of Gibraltar

answer: 1

question: Ricciarelli are traditional almond biscuits from which country?

option: Italy

answer: 1

question: In which year was the first stage of the South Eastern Freeway in the Adelaide Hills opened?

option: 1967

answer: 1

question: Which coronavirus variant beginning with L is also known as C.37?

option: Lambda

answer: 1

question: What is thanatophobia?

option: Fear of death

answer: 1

question: Name the longest-married presidential couple in US history.

option: Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter

answer: 1

question: Which US singer has asked a judge to end the court conservatorship that has controlled her life and money since 2008?

option: Britney Spears

answer: 1

question: Which horse won consecutive Melbourne Cups in 1968 and 1969?

option: Rain Lover

answer: 1

question: What is the traditional material for a 13th wedding anniversary gift?

option: Lace

answer: 1

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

option: Prospect

answer: 1

question: Name the Premier of New South Wales.

option: Gladys Berejiklian

answer: 1

question: Name the two landlocked countries in South America.

option: Bolivia, Paraguay

answer: 1

question: In the early Wizard Of Oz books by US author L. Frank Baum, the Emerald City is entirely which colour?

option: Green

answer: 1

question: Mutton comes from which animal?

option: Sheep

answer: 1

question: Name the first two US astronauts to walk on the moon.

option: Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin

answer: 1

question: What is recognised as the official flower of Easter Sunday?

option: White lily (Easter lily)

answer: 1

question: How old is Australian tennis champion Ashleigh Barty?

option: 25

answer: 1

question: Which television chef was nicknamed the Galloping Gourmet?

option: Graham Kerr

answer: 1

question: Which three-letter word completes the following longer words: ---rify, crum---, com---e?

option: Pet (petrify, crumpet, compete)

answer: 1

question: Yair Lapid is which country’s Foreign Minister?

option: Israel’s

answer: 1

question: Released in 1972, Can’t Buy A Thrill was the debut album by which US band?

option: Steely Dan

answer: 1

question: Which country hosted the 1990 FIFA World Cup?

option: Italy

answer: 1

question: In morse code, which letter is represented by a single dot?

option: E

answer: 1

question: Played by Alan Dale, Jim Robinson was a character in which Australian television soap opera?

option: Neighbours

answer: 1

question: Who was the first Indigenous person to be named Australian of the Year?

option: Lionel Rose (1968)

answer: 1

question: What is the star sign of a person born on Anzac Day?

option: Taurus

answer: 1

question: Name the English cricketer who bowled Don Bradman for a duck in his final Test match innings in 1948.

option: Eric Hollies

answer: 1

question: Which peninsula is shared by Portugal and Spain?

option: Iberian

answer: 1

question: Who was the main male star of the 2016 film La La Land?

option: Ryan Gosling

answer: 1

question: What is the highest mountain in Greece?

option: Mt Olympus

answer: 1

question: What was the first Pixar feature film?

option: Toy Story

answer: 1

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

option: Middle East respiratory syndrome

answer: 1

question: In the Bible, who was given a coat of many colours?

option: Joseph

answer: 1

question: Becky Sharp, Rawdon Crawley and George Osborne are characters in which book by British author William Makepeace Thackeray?

option: Vanity Fair

answer: 1

question: What was originally called AuctionWeb?

option: eBay

answer: 1

question: In which sport would you use a niblick?

option: Golf (a club)

answer: 1

question: How many Olympic gold medals did Australian athlete Ron Clarke win?

option: None

answer: 1

question: In which Australian state is the small town of Julia Creek?

option: Queensland

answer: 1

question: What was the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia renamed in 1986?

option: Tennis Australia

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, the road to where is paved with good intentions?

option: Hell

answer: 1

question: What nationality was composer Johannes Brahms?

option: German

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Norway?

option: Oslo

answer: 1

question: The Great Red Spot is a feature of which planet?

option: Jupiter

answer: 1

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

option: Paper

answer: 1

question: What are monozygotic twins?

option: Identical

answer: 1

question: How many anchors did the Titanic have?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: In which African country is the city of Entebbe?

option: Uganda

answer: 1

question: Which actor played the title character in the 1976 supernatural horror film Carrie?

option: Sissy Spacek

answer: 1

question: In the television situation comedy series Friends, which character thought their grandfather was Albert Einstein?

option: Phoebe

answer: 1