TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex’s first name is (a) Rachel (b) Raelene (c) Rose?

2. Did Melbourne Victory or Newcastle Jets win the 2017-18 A-League grand final?

3. What is the colour of the rose traditionally given to show love?

4. Which game is commonly known as D&D?

5. According to the saying, a person wouldn’t trade a valuable item for all the tea in which country?

6. “A social-climbing sycophant” was Malcolm Turnbull’s description of which opponent in 2017?

7. At the age of 40 in 1966, which Australian became the first and only driver to win a Formula One world championship in a car he manufactured?

8. Which Oscar winner played Marlo, an exhausted New York mother who has just given birth to her third child, in the recent movie Tully?

9. The Black Friday bushfires occurred in which state in 1939?

10. “But I did what I’ve always done, man, to cheer myself up. I picked up my guitar. I sat down and I wrote me a little song,” are lyrics from which song?

11. Which Manly Sea Eagles player was recently told he would play reserve grade for the rest of the season after an altercation with Daly Cherry-Evans in Gladstone?

12. Beginning with “d”, what is the term for saying something humorous in a serious manner?

13. How many Australians have held the women’s 800 metres freestyle world record (a) five (b) seven (c) nine?

14. Musical Evita is set in which country? 15. Snowdropping is the theft of (a) animals (b) laundry (c) water?

16. Wesfarmers recently sold its multi-million dollar British interest in which retail hardware giant for $1.77?

17. Which Australian former test spin bowler has the nickname “Skull”? 18. Ophidiophobia is the fear of what? 19. Which predominantly Catholic country recently voted to amend its constitution to permit abortions?

20. The International Hydrographic Organisation lists which four states with shores on the Great Australian Bight?

21. Robert Menzies served his first term as prime minister as leader of which party?

22. In 1971, the International Olympic Committee abandoned which requirement for competitors to participate?

23. Indigenous workers walked off which Northern Territory cattle station in 1966 as a protest against working conditions and inadequate wages?

24. Sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are characters in which 1811 Jane Austen novel?

25. Which Hollywood star challenged “anyone to be as good as I was” at playing Jo in the 1933 movie Little Women?