TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Does a green or red light appear at the top of a set of traffic lights?

2. According to the saying, don’t count your what before they hatch?

3. How many hours are in a week? 4. Which country won the 2018 Australia-Ireland Lansdowne Cup test rugby series 2-1?

5. Mount Logan is the highest mountain in which North American country?

6. Adam Sandler voiced Count Dracula in which recent movie?

7. “And our friends are all aboard. Many more of them live next door,” are lyrics from which song?

8. Which technology giant was recently fined $9 million for “bricking” the iPhones and iPads of hundreds of Australian customers in a software update and then denying them repairs?

9. Last season, which Sydney Swans star became the second player to kick 300 goals for two clubs?

10. Which former Bee Gees star was recently knighted by Prince Charles in a Buckingham Palace ceremony?

11. In a shock announcement, which Broncos skipper and former test player quit representative football after not being selected for State of Origin 1 this year?

12. Which former federal treasurer was recently elected national president of the ALP?

13. Jazz, delicious and pink lady are types of (a) apples (b) bananas (c) oranges?

14. Nutating is (a) nodding (b) sneezing (c) winking?

15. Egyptian goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary recently became the oldest ever player at a FIFA World Cup, at the age of (a) 40 (b) 45 (c) 50?

16. Which song did Jessica Mauboy perform at Eurovision 2018?

17. Name Canada’s three territories.

18. “I don’t really care. Do u,” were words written on the back of a military-style jacket worn by which US political figure recently?

19. Which Australian won the 2018 Monaco Grand Prix?

20. Han Solo’s blaster from which 1983 movie was recently sold at an auction in Las Vegas for $740,000?

21. In 1513, which Spanish conquistador discovered Florida while supposedly searching for the Fountain of Youth?

22. Beginning with “b”, what is the term for the diamond cut which accentuates lustre, whiteness and clarity?

23. Maintiens le droit (Defending the Law) is the motto of which security organisation?

24. The name of which big cat comes from the Sanskrit word meaning “bright” or “variegated”?

25. Which Pennsylvanian town is noted for its annual ceremony with a festive atmosphere of music and food on Groundhog Day?

ANSWERS

1. Red light. 2. Chickens. 3. 168 hours. 4. Ireland. 5. Canada. 6. Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation. 7. Yellow Submarine. 8. Apple. 9. Buddy Franklin. 10. Barry Gibb. 11. Darius Boyd. 12. Wayne Swan. 13. (a) apples. 14. (a) nodding. 15. (b) 45. 16. We Got

Love. 17. Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon. 18. Melania Trump. 19. Daniel Ricciardo. 20. Return of the Jedi. 21. Juan Ponce de Leon. 22. Baguette. 23. Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 24. Cheetah.

25. Punxsutawney (February 2).