TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. The most pirated TV show for the last six years has been (a) The Big Bang Theory (b)

Game of Thrones (c) Wentworth?

2. Is the Iberian Peninsula in Europe or South America?

3. Addicted to wine is said to be “in the grip of the” what?

4. The Biblical Three Wise Men were Balthasar, Caspar and (a) Elijah (b) Melchior (c) Nicodemus?

5. The ABC recently apologised to which former prime minister over a report about his government’s home insulation scheme?

6. “No more talk of darkness. Forget these wide-eyed fears,” are lyrics from which song?

7. Which two-word term, popularised by President Trump, was the Collins Word of the Year 2017?

8. In 1875, a third of the population of Fiji was wiped out by which disease?

9. Dying recently at the age of 99 was which US preacher known as “God’s ambassador”?

10. What is the term for a sports tournament in which all players play against each other?

11. The NRL recently announced that it had sold off, for up to $8 million, a State of Origin match to be played in which city for the first time in 2020?

12. In 1976, IOC chief Thomas Bach won an Olympic gold medal in (a) boxing (b) fencing (c) weightlifting?

13. The largest producer of gold is (a) Australia (b) China (c) United States?

14. The world’s heaviest snake and the second longest is the (a) boa constrictor (b) green anaconda (c) python?

15. O. R. Tambo International Airport is in (a) New Zealand (b) Singapore (c) South Africa?

16. In the 2017 movie Phantom Thread, who played 1950s’ London fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock who creates clothes for high society?

17. The letters am and pm, used in telling time, stand for what?

18. What was the term for the period of excessive internet-based speculation from about 1997 to 2001?

19. The 150th British Open golf championship will be staged at which course in 2021?

20. Who is the president of South Africa? 21. Which businessman and space travel entrepreneur is the father of twins and triplets?

22. In an Ashes Test at Leeds in 1930, who scored 309 in a day?

23. Name the annual architecture prize awarded to “the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months”.

24. Who is the federal deputy leader of the Nationals? 25. No One Here Gets Out Alive was the 1980 biography about which rock star?