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Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen was the premier of which Australian state from 1968-1987? Photo: Campbell Scott.

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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 the 2006 computer-animated film Happy Feet, who is the son of Norma Jean and Memphis?

option: Mumble

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the first American state?

option: Alabama

answer: 1

question: What is South Australia’s largest community-based volunteer organisation?

option: Meals on Wheels

answer: 1

question: Which “byte” comes between an exabyte (EB) and a yottabyte (YB)?

option: Zettabyte (ZB)

answer: 1

question: Who is the main female judge in MasterChef Australia?

option: Melissa Leong

answer: 1

question: In which Australian state is the city of Dubbo?

option: New South Wales

answer: 1

question: Who was the second Prime Minister of Australia?

option: Alfred Deakin

answer: 1

question: How many seconds are in a day?

option: 86,400

answer: 1

question: “Pomme” is the French word for which fruit?

option: Apple

answer: 1

question: What is the world’s third-largest ocean?

option: Indian Ocean

answer: 1

question: How many elements of the periodic table begin with J?

option: None

answer: 1

question: Which two countries occupy the Caribbean island of Hispaniola?

option: Dominican Republic, Haiti

answer: 1

question: Who was Australia’s 2021 Eurovision Song Contest entrant?

option: Montaigne

answer: 1

question: Who won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the 1951 film The African Queen?

option: Humphrey Bogart

answer: 1

question: How old is Australian professional basketball player Josh Giddey?

option: 18

answer: 1

question: Which river flows through Rome?

option: Tiber

answer: 1

question: Name Apple’s voice-recognition assistant.

option: Siri

answer: 1

question:Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen was Premier of which Australian state from 1968-87?

option: Queensland

answer: 1

question: Which company makes Special K breakfast cereal?

option: Kellog’s

answer: 1

question: Who was the first Australian batsman to reach 10,000 Test runs?

option: Allan Border

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, which of the 18 AFL clubs comes first?

option: Adelaide

answer: 1

question: Zinfandel is a variety of which fruit?

option: Grape

answer: 1

question: Which company makes Seltos vehicles?

option: Kia

answer: 1

question: Which English theoretical physicist wrote the 1988 book A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes?

option: Stephen Hawking

answer: 1

question: What nationality was actress Anna Magnani?

option: Italian

answer: 1

question: Who founded Microsoft with entrepreneur Paul Allen in 1975?

option: Bill Gates

answer: 1

question: Name the only South American country which begins with the letter E.

option: Ecuador

answer: 1

question: What is cynophobia?

option: Fear of dogs

answer: 1

question: Traditional Greek melomakarona biscuits are covered with what kind of crushed nuts?

option: Walnuts

answer: 1

question: Ken Hinkley, senior coach of AFL club Port Adelaide, played 121 games for which VFL/AFL club?

option: Geelong

answer: 1

question: The Suez Canal connects which two seas?

option: Mediterranean, Red

answer: 1

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

option: Ashford

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Turkey?

option: Ankara

answer: 1

question: In which part of the human body are the metatarsal bones?

option: Foot (connect ankle to toes)

answer: 1

question: The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of which Greek god?

option: Helios

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Myanmar?

option: Kyat

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what are the four suits in a standard deck of playing cards?

option: Clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades

answer: 1

question: In which century did Richard the Lionheart and his army fight in the Third Crusade?

option: 12th

answer: 1

question: In which book by Charles Dickens does the character Uriah Heep appear?

option: David Copperfield

answer: 1

question: What type of bells are mentioned in the third line of the nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary?

option: Silver

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1992 book The Pelican Brief?

option: John Grisham

answer: 1

question: What was the colour of the Volkswagen Kombi vans used by Australian filmmakers Mike and Mal Leyland in early episodes of their 1970s television series Ask the Leyland Brothers?

option: Orange

answer: 1

question: Jair Bolsonaro is President of which South American country?

option: Brazil

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, what does a bad workman blame?

option: His tools

answer: 1

question: Which UN secretary-general was born in Ghana in 1938 and died in Switzerland in 2018?

option: Kofi Annan

answer: 1

question: What is the colour of the hotel in the song Big Yellow Taxi?

option: Pink

answer: 1

question: The song Ol’ Man River comes from which 1927 musical?

option: Show Boat

answer: 1

question: In which European city is the Bridge of Sighs?

option: Venice

answer: 1

question: Who is the patron saint of Scotland?

option: St Andrew

answer: 1

question: Fixham Harbour is a town in which children’s animated television series?

option: Bob the Builder

answer: 1