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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 the name of Donald Duck’s wealthy uncle?

option: Scrooge McDuck

answer: 1

question: Which Treasure Island character has a parrot called Captain Flint?

option: Long John Silver

answer: 1

question: Who is the patron saint of Scotland?

option: St Andrew

answer: 1

question: How is deoxyribonucleic acid better known?

option: DNA

answer: 1

question: Who played crime fighter Eliot Ness in the 1987 film The Untouchables?

option: Kevin Costner

answer: 1

question: Rearrange the letters of “shattering” to make another word.

option: Straighten

answer: 1

question: What is the square root of 4356?

option: 66

answer: 1

question: Who was the presenter of the short-lived television program Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos in 1992?

option: Doug Mulray

answer: 1

question: What is a clarabella – an organ stop, a fairy dance or a small ornamental figure of pottery?

option: Organ stop

answer: 1

question: In the Harry Potter books and films, what is Hermione’s surname?

option: Granger

answer: 1

question: Who had the lead role in the 1982 film Tootsie?

option: Dustin Hoffman

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, which city was not built in a day?

option: Rome

answer: 1

question: To which section of an orchestra does the xylophone belong?

option: Percussion

answer: 1

question: The character Peter Quince is a carpenter in which play by William Shakespeare?

option: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

answer: 1

question: What “mess” is made from strawberries, whipped cream and meringue?

option: Eton Mess

answer: 1

question: Name the character played by Australian actor Heath Ledger in the 2008 film The Dark Knight.

option: The Joker

answer: 1

question: How many days are in November?

option: 30

answer: 1

question: Name the Australian author of the controversial 1950 book Power Without Glory.

option: Frank Hardy

answer: 1

question: Name the prime number closest to 40.

option: 41

answer: 1

question: What type of animal is Tonto in the 1974 film Harry & Tonto?

option: Cat

answer: 1

question: How many of Walt Disney’s Seven Dwarfs begin with the letter D?

option: Two (Dopey, Doc)

answer: 1

question: How may stars are on the flag of China?

option: Five

answer: 1

question: Baba Looey was the faithful deputy of which cartoon sheriff?

option: Quick Draw McGraw

answer: 1

question: Luzon is which country’s largest island?

option: The Philippines

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Fiji?

option: Fijian dollar

answer: 1

question: The Pilbara is a large, sparsely populated region of which Australian state?

option: Wester Australia

answer: 1

question: In which century was Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe first published?

option: 18th (1719)

answer: 1

question: In which sport are the terms dry pass, skip shot and neutral throw used?

option: Water polo

answer: 1

question: What is the second book of the Old Testament?

option: Exodus

answer: 1

question: Into which sea does the River Jordan flow?

option: Dead Sea

answer: 1

question: What is the northernmost American state?

option: Alaska

answer: 1

question: How many feet are in a yard?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: Who is Australia’s Ambassador to the US?

option: Arthur Sinodinos

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the play The Night of the Iguana?

option: Tennessee Williams

answer: 1

question: In which Australian state is the Shoalhaven River?

option: New South Wales

answer: 1

question: “One World, One Dream” was the slogan of which Summer Olympics?

option: 2008 in Beijing

answer: 1

question: The winner of the 1981 US Amateur golf championship was a son of which famous entertainer?

option: Bing Crosby (winner Nathaniel Crosby)

answer: 1

question: Which rises from the floor of a cave – a stalagmite or a stalactite?

option: Stalagmite

answer: 1

question: A loggerhead is what type of reptile?

option: Turtle

answer: 1

question: What is the orlop on a ship?

option: Lowest deck

answer: 1

question: What is a sheepshank?

option: Type of knot

answer: 1

question: King Island in Bass Strait belongs to which Australian state?

option: Tasmania

answer: 1

question: Which planet was named for the Roman god of war?

option: Mrs

answer: 1

question: In which country is the headquarters of casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer Uniqlo?

option: Japan

answer: 1

question: What is the 23rd letter of the English alphabet?

option: W

answer: 1

question: In which country was actor Charlize Theron born in 1975?

option: South Africa

answer: 1

question: What was the name of Mark Crane’s pet dog in the US television situation comedy series Frasier?

option: Eddie

answer: 1

question: Who is the Chief Executive of Hong Kong?

option: Carrie Lam

answer: 1

question: “Samedi” is the French word for which day of the week?

option: Saturday

answer: 1

question: In an alphabetical list of the United States of America, which state comes between Georgia and Idaho?

option: Hawaii

answer: 1