TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Which cartoon cat was born in Mama Leoni’s Italian Restaurant where he ate all the pasta and lasagna in sight?

2. Running and which other discipline make up a duathlon?

3. The unusual feature about the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas is that it (a) has no gaming (b) has a 1km-long swimming pool (c) is surrounded by a racecourse?

4. Beginning with “s”, what is the term for the long flat bone in the middle of the human chest?

5. In 2001, the first single released by the British virtual band Gorillaz was (a) Clint

Eastwood (b) John Wayne (c) Bruce Willis?

6. In 1986, which Pablo Picasso painting was found in a locker in Spencer Street Station after being stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria?

7. In 2014, Bernard Hopkins, aged 49, won dual world championships in which sport?

8. An outbreak of which fatal virus was recently reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?

9. Australia’s most southerly external territory is on which continent?

10. The so-called Holy Fire wildfire recently caused widespread loss of property in which US state?

11. Which NRL coach recently said he had no interest in taking an office job offered by the club for 2020?

12. Is the Republic of Moldova in Africa or Europe?

13. Which team defeated West Coast Fever in the 2018 Super Netball grand final?

14. Pauline Hanson was first elected to federal parliament in (a) 1996 (b) 2006

(c) 2016?

15. A mareograph measures (a) hair strength (b) soil density (c) tide levels?

16. Which three Australian state capitals are ranked in the top 10 of the 2018 Economist Global Liveability Index?

17. In 2005, which French former tennis star/pop star performed at Bob Geldof ’s

Live8 concert?

18. Dying recently at the age of 80 was which former Ghanaian UN secretary-general?

19. “Behind every successful man is a woman and behind her is his wife,” said which US comedian?

20. New York’s Brooklyn Bridge spans which river?

21. As Josh Frydenberg was about to sit instead of standing for his swearing in as Federal Treasurer recently, what “order” did Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove give him?

22. In 1881, which females were excluded when the Isle of Man gave women the right to vote in a general election?

23. Beginning with “m”, what is the term for a market structure in which only one buyer interacts with several would-be sellers?

24. Name Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1893 sequel novel to Kidnapped.