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Aussie tennis player and World Number 1 Ash Barty has announced her engagement to long-term partner. What is his name? Source: 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: Who is the eldest of the Darling children in J.M. Barrie’s 1904 play Peter Pan?

option: Wendy

answer: 1

question: Which South Australian lake is the lowest natural point in Australia?

option: Lake Eyre

answer: 1

question: Which two seas are connected by the Suez Canal?

option: Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea

answer: 1

question: Which two colours are the cellophane flowers in the song Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds?

option: Yellow, green

answer: 1

question: How many grand slam tennis titles has Spanish player Rafael Nadal won?

option: 21

answer: 1

question: Which country owns the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean?

option: Spain

answer: 1

question: Name the only Australian state with three words in its name.

option: New South Wales

answer: 1

question: Which member of The Rolling Stones has a daughter called Theodora?

option: Keith Richards

answer: 1

question: Who was premier of South Australia from 1982-92?

option: John Bannon

answer: 1

question: “Halley’s aura” is an anagram of which British fashion designer who died in 1985?

option: Laura Ashley

answer: 1

question: What kind of creature is a coot?

option: Water bird

answer: 1

question: Which Greek mathematician is often called the “father of geometry”?

option: Euclid

answer: 1

question: How old is former US president Donald Trump?

option: 75

answer: 1

question: What is the name of George’s wife in the play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee?

option: Martha

answer: 1

question: The constellation Ursa Major is also known as the Great what?

option: Bear

answer: 1

question: Who hasn’t played Batman in the movies – George Clooney, Val Kilmer, Christian Bale or Brad Pitt?

option: Brad Pitt

answer: 1

question: The Gambier Islands are between the southern tips of which two South Australian peninsulas?

option: Eyre, Yorke

answer: 1

question: Which word is used for the letter G in the NATO phonetic alphabet?

option: Golf

answer: 1

question: Cod liver oil is rich in which vitamin needed by the body to absorb calcium?

option: Vitamin D

answer: 1

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

option: Florida

answer: 1

question: Dancing Queen was a 1976 hit for which pop group?

option: ABBA

answer: 1

question: Costeen Hatzi is the girlfriend of which Australian tennis player?

option: Nick Kyrgios

answer: 1

question: Sealyham is a breed of which animal?

option: Dog

answer: 1

question: What is held on the third Saturday in March every four years in South Australia?

option: State election

answer: 1

question: What nationality was composer Jean Sibelius?

option: Finnish

answer: 1

question: In which US television situation comedy series did Joey’s lie about his dancing skills backfire?

option: Friends

answer: 1

question: How old was Australian music producer and talent manager Glenn Wheatley when he died on February 1?

option: 74

answer: 1

question: The adjective “porcine” refers to which animal?

option: Pig

answer: 1

question: Is the ninth letter of the English alphabet a vowel or consonant?

option: Vowel (I)

answer: 1

question: In which 1995 film did Meryl Streep play housewife Francesca Johnson?

option: The Bridges of Madison County

answer: 1

question: Name the fiance of tennis champion Ash Barty.

option: Garry Kissick

answer: 1

question: What is the sixth planet from the sun?

option: Saturn

answer: 1

question: Which European capital is nicknamed the City of 100 Spires?

option: Prague

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the nonsense poem Jabberwocky?

option: Lewis Carroll

answer: 1

question: Are protons positively or negatively charged?

option: Positively

answer: 1

question: What colour is the star on the flag of Chile?

option: White

answer: 1

question: For which 1958 film did US singer-actor Burl Ives win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor?

option: The Big Country

answer: 1

question: From which wood are cricket bats traditionally made?

option: Willow

answer: 1

question: A complicated or lengthy and usually fruitless pursuit or search is called a wild what chase?

option: Goose

answer: 1

question: Which South American capital city has “video” as part of its name?

option: Montevideo (capital of Uruguay)

answer: 1

question: Which 1960s Adelaide television clown called his young viewers “playmates”?

option: Bobo

answer: 1

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

option: NSW

answer: 1

question: What is amathophobia?

option: Fear of dust

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of France?

option: Euro

answer: 1

question: Beauty School Dropout is a song in which stage and film musical?

option: Grease

answer: 1

question: What is the top number of a fraction called?

option: Numerator

answer: 1

question: Most classical violins have how many strings?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: Zr is the symbol for which chemical element?

option: Zirconium

answer: 1

question: Which 1960s US television situation comedy series was set in the fictional town of Mockingbird Heights?

option: The Munsters

answer: 1

question: Beginning with S, what is another name for the breastbone?

option: Sternum

answer: 1