Test your knowledge

1 What was actor John Wayne’s real first name?

2 What species of mollusc shares its name with a planet?

3 Who composed the music for SleepingBeauty and SwanLake? 4 Which fictional character is also known as Lord Greystoke?

5 In which Indian city is the Taj Mahal? 6 In which county of England is Stonehenge located?

7 Name the 1987 debut album by Sinead O’Connor.

8 In which of the world’s oceans are the Maldives located?

9 What was the name of William Shakespeare’s only son?

10 Who was born Cherilyn Sarkisian in May, 1946?

11 What is the capital city of the US state of Nevada?

12 Who wrote the Hairy Maclary series of children’s books?

13 What organ in the human body produces bile?

14 What is the world’s largest venomous snake?

15 In the 1940s, what was developed under the moniker ‘Manhattan Project’?

16 In which year did the Fremantle Dockers join the AFL?

17 Musician Andre Young is better known by what name?

18 Farmers from which US state led the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794?

19 In which European city are the Spanish Steps?

20 Which NFL team plays home games at Soldier Field in Chicago?

21 The natural insecticide pyrethrum is derived from what plant?

22 Which company did Tony and Maureen Wheeler co-found in 1972? 23 In what year was the first Melbourne Cup contested?

24 Lund is a city in which European country?

25 Which character from TheSimpsons has parents named Kirk and Luann? 26 How many wives did Henry VIII have? 27 Which film was listed in 2006 as the top musical in American cinema by the American Film Institute?

28 Of the seven dwarfs from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which is the only one with a monosyllabic name?

29 Which 1996 comedy film stars Bill Murray, Randy Quaid and Woody Harrelson?

30 Typhoons are tropical storms that develop in which hemisphere?