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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: In which year did Uruguay win the first FIFA World Cup?

option: 1930

answer: 1

question: Who sang the 1989 hit If I Could Turn Back Time?

option: Cher

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the play King Lear?

option: William Shakespeare

answer: 1

question: Which sport is featured in the 1984 film Oxford Blues?

option: Rowing

answer: 1

question: What type of edible icing means “melting” in French?

option: Fondant

answer: 1

question: “You can’t overcook Christmas” is a current advertising slogan for which supermarket chain?

option: Aldi

answer: 1

question: What is the penultimate syllable in the word “recalcitrate”?

option: Ci

answer: 1

question: Published in 1920, This Side of Paradise was the first novel by which US author?

option: F. Scott Fitzgerald

answer: 1

question: Launched in 1973, what was the first US space station?

option: Skylab

answer: 1

question: What does the German word “flughafen” mean?

option: Airport

answer: 1

question: The Gaza Strip is on the coast of which sea?

option: Mediterranean

answer: 1

question: Which Latin expression is usually translated as “seize the day”?

option: Carpe diem

answer: 1

question: Who is the lead singer of US rock band The Killers?

option: Brandon Flowers

answer: 1

question: What is Charlie’s surname in Roald Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

option: Bucket

answer: 1

question: In which year was John Howard elected prime minister of Australia for the second time?

option: 1998

answer: 1

question: What is the atomic number of lead?

option: 82

answer: 1

question: Tenerife is the largest island of which Spanish archipelago?

option: Canary Islands

answer: 1

question: Which English rock band recorded the 2015 album The Magic Whip?

option: Blur

answer: 1

question: Sherry is mainly made from which variety of grape?

option: Palomino

answer: 1

question: What is the occupation of Lazar Wolf in the musical Fiddler on the Roof?

option: Butcher

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Japan?

option: Japanese yen

answer: 1

question: Who composed the opera La Traviata?

option: Giuseppe Verdi

answer: 1

question: What was the colour of Adelaide television clown Bobo’s nose?

option: Blue

answer: 1

question: Reiziq, Kyeema and arborio are varieties of what?

option: Rice

answer: 1

question: In which American state was Beyonce born in 1981?

option: Texas

answer: 1

question: Which book by Charles Dickens is the coming-of-age story of an orphan nicknamed Pip?

option: Great Expectations

answer: 1

question: The chemical element mercury is also known as what?

option: Quicksilver

answer: 1

question: Which planet is between Jupiter and Uranus?

option: Saturn

answer: 1

question: Who is South Australia’s Education Minister?

option: Blair Boyer

answer: 1

question: Multiply the number of days in April by the number of days in December.

option: 930 (30 x

answer: 1

question: Which member of Irish rock band U2 was born Paul David Hewson in 1960?

option: Bono

answer: 1

question: Name the character played by US actor Tom Hanks in the 1993 film Philadelphia.

option: Andrew Beckett

answer: 1

question: What does the expression “a month of Sundays” mean?

option: A very long time

answer: 1

question: Name the branch of anatomy that deals with muscles.

option: Myology

answer: 1

question: Who will replace Tracy Grimshaw as the host of A Current Affair on Channel 9 in 2023?

option: Allison (Ally) Langdon

answer: 1

question: Name the four prime numbers between 10 and 20.

option: 11, 13, 17, 19

answer: 1

question: Who was the Greek goddess of the dawn?

option: Eos

answer: 1

question: Will 2026 be a leap year?

option: No

answer: 1

question: What colour are the spots on the wings of an adult cabbage white butterfly?

option: Black

answer: 1

question: What is a baby elephant called?

option: Calf

answer: 1

question: In area, what is the smallest US state?

option: Rhode Island

answer: 1

question: Which organ pumps blood around the body?

option: Heart

answer: 1

question: What is the full first name of Mr Smith, played by James Stewart, in the 1939 film Mr Smith Goes to Washington?

option: Jefferson

answer: 1

question: In which Australian state is the Ovens River?

option: Victoria

answer: 1

question: What is the most abundant element in the universe?

option: Hydrogen

answer: 1

question: What colour is the Mr Men character Mr Happy?

option: Yellow

answer: 1

question: Who were the original three judges on Australian Idol when the program premiered in 2003?

option: Ian “Dicko” Dickson, Marcia Hines, Mark Holden

answer: 1

question: Uhler was the middle name of which US actor?

option: Jack Lemmon

answer: 1

question: What is the more common name of lateral epicondylitis?

option: Tennis elbow

answer: 1

question: What is the square of 27?

option: 729

answer: 1