TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
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QUESTIONS
1. Which West Australian was recently acting prime minister for a week?
2. Which country recently reimposed a ban on women buying alcohol, just days after it was lifted, for the first time in nearly four decades (a) Portugal (b) Saudi Arabia (c) Sri Lanka?
3. Which grand slam tennis tournament is currently being played?
4. During the 1960s, Hollywood star Keanu Reeves lived with his mother in (a) Canberra (b) Perth (c) Sydney?
5. Is CO the formula for carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide?
6. Which former federal treasurer recently announced he would quit parliament at the next election?
7. Who played Scarlett O’Hara in the 1939 movie Gone With the Wind?
8. Which Western Australian soccer star is the 2018 Young Australian of the Year?
9. Who recently resigned as president of South Africa?
10. Froggy’s Beach is in which Australian state/territory?
11. Which ground will host Wednesday’s State of Origin 1?
12. Did Roald Amundsen or Robert Scott lead expeditions to the North Pole and the South Pole?
13. The distance of a light year is about how many kilometres (a) 9.5 million (b) 9.5 billion (c) 9.5 trillion?
14. What was the term for the pre-season AFL competition played on a rectangular field?
15. The major components of the dwarf planet Pluto are rock and (a) copper (b) ice (c) sulphuric acid?
16. Last year, who won the by-election for the New South Wales federal seat of New England?
17. “You gotta ask yourself, do you feel lucky greenie punks?” was a recent Facebook comment accompanying a photo of which Queensland federal MP aiming a pistol?
18. Which two countries marched as one at the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony?
19. Prince Henrik, the husband of Queen Margrethe of which country, recently died at the age of 83?
20. Which recent movie was the last in the
Fifty Shades movie trilogy?
21. What was the nickname for the recent Arctic storm during which temperatures plummeted in Europe?
22. What is the colloquial term for a movie produced outside the major film studio system?
23. Hawaii governor David Ige said that his delayed response to correcting a recent false ballistic missile attack was because he had forgotten what?
24. Last year, which US musician’s death was announced prematurely on Twitter, followed by claims he was still on life support?
ANSWERS
1. Senator Mathias Cormann. 2. (c) Sri Lanka. 3. French Open. 4. (c) Sydney. 5. Carbon monoxide. 6. Wayne Swan. 7. Vivien Leigh. 8. Sam Kerr. 9. Jacob Zuma. 10. Queensland. 11. Melbourne Cricket Ground. 12. Roald Amundsen. 13. (c) 9.5 trillion kilometres. 14. AFLX. 15. (b) ice. 16. Barnaby Joyce. 17. George Christensen. 18. North Korea, South Korea. 19. Denmark. 20. Fifty Shades
Freed. 21. The Beast from the East. 22. Indie film. 23. His Twitter password. 24. Tom Petty.