TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Is a painted lady a fish or butterfly?

2. The utility work vehicle is commonly referred to by which three-letter abbreviation?

3. The Super Netball team, the Lightning, is from which state?

4. The name of which of Santa’s reindeer begins with “V”?

5. The Logie Awards were named after a pioneering television engineer from (a) Australia (b) Germany (c) Scotland?

6. The Angkor Wat temple complex is in which country?

7. In which country were more than 200 people recently killed during co-ordinated bombings at churches and hotels?

8. In which state capital was a Supercars event recently held under lights?

9. “It was 20 years today that Sgt Pepper taught the band to play,” are lyrics from which song?

10. Aramaco, a Saudi Arabian state-owned oil giant, recently overtook which US IT giant as the world’s most profitable company?

11. An accidental hit to a player’s head with the ball in a rugby league match is a (a) budgerigar (b) falcon (c) pigeon?

12. Which country recently became the seventh to successfully send an object into lunar orbit (a) Canada (b) Israel (c) Sudan?

13. Saturn takes about how many years to orbit the Sun (a) 29.5 (b) 129.5 (c) 229.5?

14. Which country’s 2019 Formula One event was recognised as the 1000th world championship race (a) Australia (b) China (c) France?

15. Which state recently became the first Australian jurisdiction to make gender optional on birth certificates?

16. In the Christian tradition, what is eaten on Shrove Tuesday?

17. Which recent supernatural horror movie was based on a 1983 novel by Stephen King?

18. Last year, 520,000 Juventus jerseys featuring which Portuguese star were sold in the first 24 hours of sale?

19. The laryngeal prominence, a feature of the human neck, is commonly known by which term?

20. Which item, reputedly worn by Jesus Christ, was saved during the recent burning of Notre Dame Cathedral?

21. Lake Geneva is part of which two countries?

22. Which Western Australian track is the longest (1850km) historic stock route in the world?

23. The letters DRS, the cricket umpiring term, stand for what?

24. Why was tennis star Nick Kyrgios in a Canberra hospital for two days last year?

25. Beginning with “s”, what is the term for the small line at the end of strokes in some font types?

ANSWERS

1. Butterfly. 2. Ute. 3. Queensland. 4. Vixen. 5. (c) Scotland. 6. Cambodia. 7. Sri Lanka. 8. Perth. 9. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. 10. Apple. 11. (b) falcon. 12. (b) Israel. 13. (a) 29.5 years. 14. (b) China. (Shanghai). 15. Tasmania. 16. Pancakes. 17. Pet Sematary. 18. Cristiano Ronaldo. 19. Adam’s apple. 20. Crown of Thorns. 21. France, Switzerland. 22. Canning Stock Route. 23. Decision Review System. 24. Spider bite on his foot. 25. Serif.