TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. A coconut has how many “eyes”?

2. The “rag trade” is a common term for the manufacture and selling of what?

3. Did former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce’s partner Vikki Campion recently give birth to a daughter or son?

4. Is the Arc de Triomphe in Marseille or Paris?

5. In a major netball upset at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, which country beat New Zealand 57-53 (a) Ghana (b) Nigeria (c) Malawi?

6. The letters PTSD, the mental disorder, stand for what?

7. Which meeting of national leaders is jokingly referred to as “chaps holidaying on government money”?

8. The 50th anniversary of the assassination of which US civil rights leader was commemorated recently?

9. When was the most recent palindromic year?

10. Which horse’s 25th consecutive win was this year’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes?

11. Which Melbourne Storm star recently scored the controversial “drop-kick try” against the Brisbane Broncos?

12. If something is centuplicated, it is increased how many times (a) 10 (b) 100 (c) 1000?

13. Beginning with “h”, what is the term for a Twitter username?

14. Which major international financial crisis began with the US stock market crash of 1929?

15. Psalms and the name of which other Old Testament book begin with “P”?

16. “1801 – I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with,” are the first words of which Emily Bronte novel?

17. Which former federal ALP leader was recently appointed governor of Western Australia?

18. Tottenham is in which two Australian states?

19. “On the air. Unaware,” was the tagline for which 1998 satirical science fiction movie?

20. Which country recently beat Australia by 492 runs in a cricket test?

21. Which Australian won the 1986 Boston Marathon?

22. Which mountain range is known as the “backbone of Britain”?

23. Cartoonist Al Capp described which place as “an average stone-age community nestled in a bleak valley, between two cheap and uninteresting hills somewhere”?

24. Which 1891 Henry Lawson poem was written as a commentary on the shearers’ strike?

25. Beginning with “f ”, what is the recently-coined term for browsing products on the internet but not buying anything?