Quiz

1 Which comic-book superhero has an invisible jet and the Lasso of Truth? 2 Shingles results from the virus that causes which childhood disease? 3 Six actors have been Oscar-nominated for playing the same role in different films. Name two. 4 What type of energy cannot pass through a Faraday cage? 5 In which country are 98 per cent of adoptees adult men? 6 The flowering mint plant Salvia hispanica produces what superfood? 7 Stovepipe, bearskin, biretta and cloche are types of what? 8 In which Australian city did 13 people die as the result of a 1989 earthquake? 9 Of which of these is Saint Adrian not the patron: plague, unattractive people, arms dealers? 10 The ancient city of Timbuktu is in which country? 11 Goannas and Komodo dragons are members of which lizard family? 12 What’s the New Zealand name for the footwear Australians call “thongs”? 13 On average, which is faster: an expelled bullet or a sneeze? 14 Which member of Russia’s ruling Romanov family, executed in 1918, was falsely claimed to have survived? 15 What biblical reference is Australian rhyming slang for a shark? 16 Who are the celebrity parents of Fifty Shades Darker actress Dakota Johnson? 17 What does a protractor measure? 18 What is the only place in the world where crocodiles and alligators coexist in nature? 19 In what year did Serena Williams first achieve her No.1 singles ranking? 20What part of the human

body is the philtrum?