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In what year did Jessica Mauboy represent Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest? Francisco Leong / AFP Photo.

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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: The aardvark is native to which continent?

option: Africa

answer: 1

question: A standard Scrabble board has how many squares?

option: 225

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the first Roman numeral?

option: C

answer: 1

question: In which year did Jessica Mauboy represent Australia with the song We Got Love at the Eurovision Song Contest?

option: 2018

answer: 1

question: Which country won the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup final against England on April 3?

option: Australia

answer: 1

question: In which American state is the city of Cincinnati?

option: Ohio

answer: 1

question: What is the middle name of South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas?

option: Bryden

answer: 1

question: Who is No.10 for AFL club Port Adelaide?

option: Travis Boak

answer: 1

question: Using their chemical symbols, what kind of decoration can be made from tungsten, rhenium, astatine and hydrogen?

option: W-Re-At-H (wreath)

answer: 1

question: Which green engine is Thomas the Tank Engine’s best friend?

option: Percy

answer: 1

question: The United Arab Emirates is a federation of how many emirates?

option: Seven

answer: 1

question: In which year did Switzerland join the UN – 1992, 2002 or 2012?

option: 2002

answer: 1

question: Which word rhymes with “diddle” in the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle?

option: Fiddle

answer: 1

question: The Bay of Biscay is part of which ocean?

option: Atlantic

answer: 1

question: “It starts with yes” is an advertising slogan for which telecommunications company?

option: Optus

answer: 1

question: What nationality was author Umberto Eco?

option: Italian

answer: 1

question: By what name are the 11th, 12th and 13th holes at Augusta National Golf Club in the US collectively known?

option: Amen Corner

answer: 1

question: Which Australian model was nicknamed “The Body” by Time magazine in 1989?

option: Elle Macpherson

answer: 1

question: Duke Albrecht disguises himself as a peasant named Loys in which ballet?

option: Giselle

answer: 1

question: Beginning with H, who is the only main character to survive at the end of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet?

option: Horatio

answer: 1

question: In which country was actor Arnold Schwarzenegger born in 1947?

option: Austria

answer: 1

question: Name the President of Ukraine.

option: Volodymyr Zelensky

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1979 spy novel Smiley’s People?

option: John le Carre

answer: 1

question: What was the name of Janet Leigh’s character in the 1960 film Psycho?

option: Marion Crane

answer: 1

question: How many countries have two-word names, the first of which is South?

option: Three (South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan)

answer: 1

question: The members of which British band formed their own record label, Apple, in 1968?

option: The Beatles

answer: 1

question: Who did not die in 1955 – actor James Dean, physicist Albert Einstein, saxophonist Charlie Parker or Soviet leader Joseph Stalin?

option: Stalin (1953)

answer: 1

question: In which country is raki a national alcoholic drink?

option: Turkey

answer: 1

question: Who composed the music for the song Moon River?

option: Henry Mancini

answer: 1

question: What is the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere called?

option: Exosphere

answer: 1

question: By what name was US comedian William Claude Dukenfield better known?

option: W.C. Fields

answer: 1

question: What sport do the Boston Red Sox play?

option: Baseball

answer: 1

question: What is a male duck called?

option: Drake

answer: 1

question: Stay With Me was a 2014 hit for which English singer-songwriter?

option: Sam Smith

answer: 1

question: Which country won the 2010 FIFA World Cup?

option: Spain

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name an Adelaide suburb – RIEFL.

option: Firle

answer: 1

question: Will 2064 be a leap year?

option: Yes

answer: 1

question: The term “ovine” refers to what animal?

option: Sheep

answer: 1

question: What type of food is mascarpone?

option: Cream cheese

answer: 1

question: Name the Australian group who won Best Dance Recording at the 2022 Grammy Awards.

option: Rufus Du Sol

answer: 1

question: Conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien in his 1937 book The Hobbit, what kind of creature is Smaug?

option: Dragon

answer: 1

question: First performed in 1923, The Vegetable was the only full-length play by which US author?

option: F. Scott Fitzgerald

answer: 1

question: Installed in 1410, in which European city is the world’s oldest working astronomical clock?

option: Prague

answer: 1

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

option: 961 (31 x 31)

answer: 1

question: Z, C, V, B, N, M and which other letter are on the bottom row of letters on a standard keyboard?

option: X

answer: 1

question: What part of a bird is its syrinx?

option: Vocal organ

answer: 1

question: Who was the first US president?

option: George Washington

answer: 1

question: Ronald McDonald, the McDonald’s clown, has what colour hair?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: What is felinology?

option: Study of cats

answer: 1

question: Which river runs through the Hungarian capital of Budapest?

option: Danube

answer: 1