Trivia, Puzzles & Word Power

TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. In 1971, Alan Shepard struck a golf ball that went for “miles and miles and miles”. Where was he? 1 point

2. The orange carrot that we are familiar with today was first bred in which European country? 1 point

3. What movie’s soundtrack was the bestselling album worldwide in 2014? 1 point

4. Which organ makes up only two per cent of your body’s weight but requires around a fifth of its energy? 1 point

5. Who was the first person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic? 1 point

6. What type of animal is a drongo? 1 point

7. Which country’s Qassim University hosted a 2012 conference about women in society – with no women in attendance? 2 points

8. Which country issued a rectangular coin in 2010 to mark its 45 years of independence? 2 points

9. What website redesigned its logo in 2012 to look like a “mountain bluebird with a dash of hummingbird”? 1 point

10. Who turned out to be wrong when she predicted, “Later on, neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a 13-year-old schoolgirl”? 2 points

11. The Brick Testament is a website that illustrates the Bible in what unusual medium? 2 points

12. What animal’s scientific name, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, means “black-and-white cat-foot?” 2 points

13. Which was the last habitable land mass to be populated? 1 point

14. Which structure was erected closer to the time of Cleopatra: the Great Pyramid of Giza or the pyramidshaped Luxor casino-hotel in Las Vegas? 2 points