Trivia

TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Which country’s 1900 Constitution Act left room for adding New Zealand as a member state one day? 1 point

2. In 1973, who became the youngest Oscar winner to date? 1 point

3. What was the original name of the kiwifruit? 1 point

4. In what 1980s hit does the singer buy bread from a man in Brussels who was “six-foot-four and full of muscles”? 1 point

5. What is the only major European river to waltz its way from west to east? 1 point

6. Dr Kenneth Leigh Evans purportedly used a 300-yearold Jamaican recipe to create what coffee liqueur? 1 point

7. What’s the name of both the Libyan capital and Lebanon’s secondlargest city? 2 points

8. Which calendar date

is the rarest birthday? 1 point 9. What is the name of the Australian women’s soccer team? 1 point

10. Of the six wives of England’s King Henry VIII, how many were named Catherine? 2 points

11. In which country do the similarly named Dnieper and Dniester rivers reach the Black Sea? 2 points

12. Which American ‘king’ posed for a photo with US president Richard Nixon in 1970? 1 point

13. Measuring just a few millimetres, Paedocypris progenetica may be the world’s tiniest fish species. In which country could you spot one, if you have good eyesight? 2 points

14. Where in the human body is the humerus bone found? 1 point 15. What Renaissance political thinker advised, “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both”? 2 points

16-20 Gold medal 11-15 Silver medal 6-10 Bronze medal 0-5 Wooden spoon

Machiavelli. Niccolò 15. arm. upper the In 14. Indonesia. 13. Presley. Elvis 12. Ukraine. 11. Parr). Catherine and Howard Catherine Aragon, of Catherine( Three 10. Matildas. 9. 29. February 8. Tripoli. 7. Maria. Tia 6. Danube. The 5. Work. at Men by Under’, Down‘ 4. gooseberry. Chinese 3. O’Neal. Tatum 2. Australia. 1. ANSWERS: