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Nicole Kidman 2021 Golden Globes at home. Picture: Instagram

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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: Which chess piece is shaped like a horse’s head?

option: Knight

answer: 1

question: The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City spans which river?

option: East River

answer: 1

question: Who composed the Christmas Oratorio?

option: J. S Bach

answer: 1

question: The Bellarine Peninsula is southwest of which Australian capital city?

option: Melbourne

answer: 1

question: Who was the third wife of US actor Tom Cruise?

option: Katie Holmes

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name a two-word Adelaide suburb: AAKDWPR.

option: Daw Park

answer: 1

question: Name the 50-year-old golfer who won the 2021 US PGA Championship.

option: Phil Mickelson

answer: 1

question: “Burma” is an anagram of which dance?

option: Rumba

answer: 1

question: Following settlement in 1806, which future Tasmanian city was originally called Patersonia?

option: Launceston

answer: 1

question: On which continent is the Atacama Desert?

option: South America

answer: 1

question: On a dartboard, which number is directly opposite 20?

option: 3

answer: 1

question: In which year did ABBA perform in Adelaide?

option: 1977

answer: 1

question: In which television series was Essos a fictional continent?

option: Game of Thrones

answer: 1

question: What was the second track on side one of the 1966 album Revolver by The Beatles?

option: Eleanor Rigby

answer: 1

question: Name the two authors of the 1848 publication The Communist Manifesto.

option: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

answer: 1

question: In the Lego Masters Grand Final on Channel 9 on May 17, how many deer were preyed upon by a pack of wolves in the winning forest diorama?

option: Two

answer: 1

question: What is the fourth planet from the sun?

option: Mars

answer: 1

question: Which three-letter word completes the following longer words: m---s, cl---ant, r---ent?

option: Aim (maims, claimant, raiment)

answer: 1

question: What relation was Elizabeth I to Henry VIII?

option: Daughter

answer: 1

question: In which country was actor Nicole Kidman born?

option: US

answer: 1

question: In the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, what is Dr Watson’s first name?

option: John

answer: 1

question: Who was Prime Minister of Australia in 2000?

option: John Howard

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the second sign of the zodiac?

option: Aries

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Peru?

option: Sol

answer: 1

question: In which year did World War II end?

option: 1945

answer: 1

question: What is the northernmost American state?

option: Alaska

answer: 1

question: The Sugar Plum Fairy appears in which Tchaikovsky ballet?

option: The Nutcracker

answer: 1

question: In the NATO phonetic alphabet, which word represents the letter Z?

option: Zulu

answer: 1

question: On which two continents are leopards found in the wild?

option: Africa, Asia

answer: 1

question: What was the first name of Elvis Presley’s father?

option: Vernon

answer: 1

question: The Bight of Biafra is off the west coast of which continent?

option: Africa

answer: 1

question: Which country won the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest?

option: Italy

answer: 1

question: Mr Darcy is a character in which Jane Austen novel?

option: Pride and Prejudice

answer: 1

question: What colour are the seats in Australia’s House of Representatives?

option: Green

answer: 1

question: In heraldry, what term is used for a shield displayed on a coat of arms?

option: Escutcheon

answer: 1

question: In which year did US evangelist Billy Graham die?

option: 2018

answer: 1

question: From which country did the African nation of Mozambique gain independence in 1975?

option: Portugal

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the cook in the US television western series Bonanza?

option: Hop Sing

answer: 1

question: The line “Parting is such sweet sorrow …” comes from which play by William Shakespeare?

option: Romeo and Juliet

answer: 1

question: Draped Seated Woman is a famous bronze sculpture by which English artist?

option: Henry Moore

answer: 1

question: Dushanbe is the capital of which Central Asian country?

option: Tajikistan

answer: 1

question: Who is the wife of Italian actor Franco Nero?

option: Vanessa Redgrave

answer: 1

question: In Norse mythology, the goddess Freyja’s chariot was pulled by two what?

option: Cats

answer: 1

question: What is the final event in the decathlon?

option: 1500m

answer: 1

question: The entire body of Cousin Itt, a character in the US television situation comedy series The Addams Family, was covered with what?

option: Hair

answer: 1

question: What type of creature is Timon in The Lion King?

option: Meerkat

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the play The Mousetrap?

option: Agatha Christie

answer: 1

question: What type of animal is the Dr Seuss character Horton?

option: Elephant

answer: 1

question: To which basic sense does “olfactory” refer?

option: Smell

answer: 1

question: Who played Dorothy in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz?

option: Judy Garland

answer: 1