TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

QUESTIONS

1. How many of the three 21st century Popes have been non-Italian?

2. A mudpuppy is a species of (a) dog (b) giraffe (c) salamander?

3. Is Winnipeg the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba or Quebec?

4. Which AFL team is nicknamed “the Pies”?

5. Which animal is also referred to as a glutton (a) jackal (b) pig (c) wolverine?

6. Which online retail founder was recently the world’s richest man for a few hours during a share price surge?

7. Who recently said that the probe into possible Russian involvement in the 2016 US presidential election was “the greatest witch hunt” in US history?

8. Transylvania is a historical region of which country?

9. In which sport do players warm up in the bullpen?

10. In which recent movie did Nicole Kidman play a prim and proper principal at a remote school for girls in Civil-war era Virginia?

11. Which Queenslander scored a hat-trick of tries in State of Origin 3 this year?

12. Which two-digit numbers are divisible by both six and eight?

13. Australia’s George Lazenby played James Bond in how many movies?

14. The 1944 July Plot was a failed attempt to assassinate which German leader?

15. The 2022 Commonwealth Games were originally scheduled to open in Durban on July 18 to coincide with the birthday of which former South African president?

16. Which 16th-17th century explorer and soldier is noted for popularising tobacco in England?

17. “I'm on my way to what I want from this world and years from now you'll make it to the next world,” are lyrics from which song?

18. Which highway crosses the Nullarbor Plain?

19. John Denver’s 1975 song Calypso was written as a tribute to which 20th century explorer?

20. A bag containing traces of moon dust collected by which astronaut was recently auctioned in New York for $1.8 million?

21. Which Australian was captain of Hampshire County Cricket Club from 2004–2007?

22. What was the term for the ancient unit of distance measured from the elbow to the tip of the index finger?

23. In which battle in 31BC did the forces of Octavian defeat the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra?

24. Which pen name did John O’Grady use on his 1957 novel They’re A Weird Mob?

25. What was the surname of the Canadian quintuplets born in 1934 and believed the first to have survived infancy?

ANSWERS

1. Three. 2. (c) salamander. 3. Manitoba.

4. Collingwood. 5. (c) wolverine. 6. Jeff Bezos. 7. Donald Trump. 8. Romania.

9. Baseball. 10. The Beguiled. 11. Valentine Holmes. 12. 24, 48, 72, 96. 13. One. 14. Adolf Hitler. 15. Nelson Mandela. 16. Sir Walter Raleigh. 17. I’m on My Way. 18. Eyre Highway. 19. Jacques Cousteau. 20. Neil Armstrong. 21. Shane Warne. 22. Cubit. 23. Battle of Actium. 24. Nino Culotta.

25. Dionne.