TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Australia’s Kate Miller-Heidke finished in which place at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest (a) third (b) sixth (c) ninth?

2. The Ph reading of pure water at room temperature is (a) 2 (b) 7 (c) 13?

3. Does the Zambezi River flow into the Atlantic Ocean or the Indian Ocean?

4. The Uffizi Gallery is in (a) Florence (b) Milan (c) Rome?

5. The West Indies played test cricket for the first time in (a) 1928 (b) 1948 (c) 1968?

6. The wife of which former US vice-president recently revealed in her memoir Light Enters that she agreed to marry him after he proposed for the fifth time?

7. “When I wake up, well I know I’m gonna be. I’m gonna be the man who wakes up next to you,” are lyrics from which song?

8. Which name did the Duke and Duchess of Sussex give to their newborn son?

9. Dying recently at age of 74 was Peter Mayhew, noted for playing which character in the Star Wars movie series?

10. The World Athletics Championships begin in which Middle Eastern city next week?

11. Who won his first Dally M medal in 2005 and his fourth in 2015?

12. Is the length of an A4 sheet of paper longer or shorter than a foot?

13. South Africa’s longest river has the same name as which citrus fruit?

14. How many US states have two-word names (a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 30?

15. “Old Blighty” is a nickname for (a) Canada (b) Israel (c) England?

16. The Red Forest, one of the most radioactive sites on Earth, is in which country?

17. In the angels on horseback savoury, what is wrapped around oysters?

18. Who won the 2019 Archibald Prize? 19. Which long-running TV show, featuring a group of socially awkward scientists, recently aired its final episode?

20. Who won the 2019 Belinda Clark Award for best Australian female cricketer?

21. The birth name of a winner of the Oscar for Best Actor is the same as the name of a parent of which prominent Australian?

22. President Trump recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to which golf star?

23. In 1980, which rock star was dressed as Donald Duck when he performed at New York’s Central Park?

24. In the 1920s, which two Irish men won the Nobel Prize for Literature?

25. Which Portuguese-speaking country joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1995?

ANSWERS

1. (c) ninth. 2. (b) 7. 3. Indian Ocean. 4. (a) Florence. 5. (a) 1928. 6. Joe Biden. (Jill Biden). 7. I’m Gonna Be .( 500 Miles).

8. Archie. (Archie Harrison Mountbatten Windsor). 9. Chewbacca. 10. Doha. (Qatar). 11. Johnathan Thurston. 12. Shorter. (297mm v 305.4mm). 13. Orange. 14. (a) 10. 15. (c) England. 16. Ukraine. (Chernobyl). 17. Bacon. 18. Tony Costa. 19. The Big Bang

Theory. 20. Alyssa Healy. 21. Scott Morrison (mother Marion Morrison, birth name of John Wayne). 22. Tiger Woods. 23. Elton John. 24. William Butler Yeats (1923), George Bernard Shaw (1925). 25. Mozambique.