TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
QUESTIONS
1. What is the nickname for the letters FTSE, the London stock exchange indices?
2. During her teenage years, did Hollywood star Greta Scacchi live with her family in Hobart or Perth?
3. Did Charles Kingsford Smith’s aircraft, the Southern Cross, have two or three engines?
4. Last year, which US state became the first to officially recognise a third gender (a) Alaska (b) California (c) Nevada?
5. From 2007 to 2010, was Bridgestone or Dunlop the sole supplier of tyres for Formula 1 cars?
6. A Bold Life was the 2017 autobiography of which Australian 50-year TV personality?
7. Which Tasmanian convict-era penal settlement is named after the lieutenant-governor who founded it?
8. Last year, which Australian casino boss reportedly paid Mariah Carey between $6m and $13m as settlement over their public break-up?
9. In which 2017 movie was Thor held captive on the planet of Sakaar by a freaky fight impresario known as The Grandmaster?
10. The US men’s basketball team, nicknamed “the dream team”, first competed at which Olympics?
11. Mining chief Twiggy Forrest recruited which Cowboys star to spearhead his push to raise the legal age for smoking to 21?
12. What is the next number in the sequence 169, 196, 225?
13. Is Supertramp an American or English rock band?
14. To speed their advance towards Singapore in World War II, Japanese troops used (a) bicycles (b) hot-air balloons (c) surfboards?
15. A sustain pedal is part of an (a) aircraft (b) piano (c) racing car?
16. “It’s a little bit funny, this feeling inside. I’m not one of those who can easily hide,” are lyrics from which song?
17. “The Pale” referred to in the expression, “beyond the pale”, refers to a region of which country controlled by England in the late Middle Ages?
18. Yarto is in which Australian state/territory?
19. In 2017, the firm behind which Wall Street statue agreed to pay more than $5 million after the US Department of Labour said it underpaid 305 women and discriminated against black employees?
20. In 1988, who was selected as Australia’s test wicketkeeper after only six first-class matches?
ANSWERS
1. “Footsie”. 2. Perth. 3. Three.
4. (b) California. 5. Bridgestone. 6. Kerri-Anne Kennerley. 7. Port Arthur. (George Arthur). 8. James Packer. 9. Thor: Ragnorak. 10. Barcelona 1992. 11. Johnathan Thurston. 12. 256. 13. English.
14. (a) bicycles. 15. (b) piano. 16. Your Song. 17. Ireland. 18. Victoria. 19. Fearless Girl. 20. Ian Healy.