The Weekly Times quiz from Brydon Coverdale, April 8 edition

Alpacas are native to which continent? Test your knowledge with these 25 questions.

TEST your knowledge with our weekly quiz, compiled by The Chase Australia’s Brydon Coverdale. Can you get 25/25?

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QUESTIONS

1. Which two native animals are holding up the shield on the Australian coat of arms?

2. Which Australian band had hits with the songs Original Sin and Suicide Blonde?

3. What is the well-known nickname of the former footballer and media personality Peter Keenan?

4. Alpacas are native to which continent?

Question 3: Peter Keenan training at North Melbourne.

5. Before he became a famous film director, Ron Howard starred as Richie Cunningham in what sitcom?

6. Cricketer Graeme Smith captained which country in a record 108 Test matches?

7. Deakin University’s first campus was established in which suburb of Geelong?

8. Dialysis is a medical process that can be used when patients have problems with the function of what organs?

9. Malvern Star is an iconic Australian manufacturer of what?

10. What is the name of the major river that flows through Adelaide?

11. The only Australians to have won at least four Olympic gold medals are swimmers Ian Thorpe, Dawn Fraser, Libby Trickett and Murray Rose, and which runner?

12. On a ship, what word means the opposite of windward?

13. “Not Happy Jan!” was a famous catchphrase in TV commercials for what?

14. What Beatles song begins with the lyrics: “Desmond has a barrow in the marketplace, Molly is the singer in a band”?

15. Saskatchewan and Manitoba are provinces of which country?

16. True or false: When it was first introduced in 1966, Australia’s 50-cent coin was round.

Question 16: This is what a 50c coin looks like now, but what did it look like when it was introduced in 1966? Picture: Getty

17. What is the first name of Paul Hogan’s character in the classic Australian film Crocodile Dundee?

18. Which Liberal leader became Victoria’s premier after defeating John Brumby’s Labor at the 2010 state election?

19. What is the collective name for a group of lions?

20. Packham, Williams and Beurre Bosc are common varieties of what fruit?

21. What is the only even prime number?

22. Which of these is the title of an award-winning 2017 crime novel by Australian author Mark Brandi — Gippsland, Wimmera or Mallee?

23. In which decade did the iconic Woodstock music festival take place in the USA?

24. On which Australian TV drama series did Rowena Wallace play Pat the Rat?

25. Which jockey rode Makybe Diva to three consecutive Melbourne Cup victories from 2003-2005?

Question 25: Makybe Diva in the 2005 Melbourne Cup, 200m from home.

ANSWERS

1. Kangaroo and emu

2. INXS

3. Crackers

4. South America

5. Happy Days

6. South Africa

7. Waurn Ponds

8. Kidneys

9. Bicycles

10. Torrens

11. Betty Cuthbert

12. Leeward

13. Yellow Pages

14. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

15. Canada

16. True

17. Mick

18. Ted Baillieu

19. Pride

20. Pear

21. Two

22. Wimmera

23. 1960s (1969)

24. Sons and Daughters

25. Glen Boss

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