QUICK QUIZ

1. In what year did Albert Einstein die?

2. Who has been awarded the most Oscars in the history of the Academy Awards?

3. Who wrote the 1954 novel Lord of the Flies?

4. Which two seas are linked by the Suez Canal?

5. When was Australia’s first men’s football team, the Socceroos, formed?

6. What does a paleontologist study?

7. Which famous cartoon family lives on 742 Evergreen Terrace?

8. What are dried plums called?

9. The Rialto bridge is a popular tourist attraction in which city?

10. Which Australian cricketer famously used an aluminium bat in a test match against England in 1979?

11. How many James Bond films start with the word “The”?

12. Video-sharing website YouTube was launched in which year?

13. In which three years were the Summer Olympic Games cancelled?

14. Which car manufacturer was known as the Swallow Sidecar Company before World War II?

15. Steven Spielberg was one of the co-founders of which movie studio?

16. Which country pop singer was born Eilleen Regina Edwards?

17. What colour is cerulean?

18. How many syllables are in the first line of a haiku?

19. In a standard pack of cards, which king is the only one to not have a moustache?

20. What is the religion of the Dalai Lama?