BRAINPOWER
1. Which country shares Russia’s shortest land border? 2. In 2009, which two companies merged to become the mobile telecommunications company VHA? 3. King K. Rool is a green Kremling featured in which video game series? 4. What are the four colours on the flag of Ghana? 5. In the 1970s, which iconic Australian had a hit with the song Capricorn Dancer? 6. Which 2016 movie was based on the book Wild Pork and Watercress? 7. True or false: the sphenoid bone is in the pelvis? 8. Which country starting with C is named Hrvatska in its own language? 9. The Battle of Hamburger Hill was a battle of which war? 10. What is the westernmost city in New Zealand? 11. Which famous actress was the mother of Ben Stiller? 12. Flacco is a fictional character played by which Australian comedian? 13. In which decade did Michael Hussey, pictured, first play Test cricket for Australia? 14. Which two people have won the Gold Logie Award five times? 15. On which island are the UK-administered areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia? 16. What type of fruit is in the title of a famous 1939 novel by John Steinbeck? 17. True or false: Adolf Hitler officially opened the 1936 Summer Olympics? 18. Alejandro González Iñárritu won his first Best Director Oscar for which movie? 19. In 2009, who preceded Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister of Israel? 20. Which country won the Australian Football International Cup in both 2008 and 2014? 21. Barbara Eden is best known for her starring role in which TV series? 22. Who succeeded Edward VII as King of the UK? 23. Which famous building is located at 350 5th Avenue, New York City? 24. Wilkins Sound is located on which continent? 25. Who was Prime Minister of Australia during the Falklands War in the 1980s? 26. What is the main colour of traditional Italian salsa verde? 27. True or false: Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong, born in 1971, is better known as Mariah Carey? 28. In a standard game of Pictionary, what is the ‘D’ category? 29. What is the predominant religion of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands? 30. Who wrote the classic 1922 novel Ulysses?
1. North Korea 2. Vodafone Australia, Hutchison 3G Australia 3. Donkey Kong 4. Red, yellow (gold), green, black 5. Richard Clapton 6. Hunt for the Wilderpeople 7. False (skull) 8. Croatia 9. Vietnam War 10. Invercargill 11. Anne Meara 12. Paul Livingston 13. 2000s 14. Graham Kennedy, Ray Martin 15. Cyprus 16. Grapes (The Grapes of Wrath) 17. True 18. Birdman 19. Ehud Olmert 20. Papua New Guinea 21. I Dream of Jeannie 22. George V 23. Empire State Building 24. Antarctica 25. Malcolm Fraser 26. Green 27. False (Dido) 28. Difficult 29. Muslim (Sunni) 30. James Joyce