TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Built 25km north of Hobart in 1823, Australia’s oldest bridge still in use is the (a) Collingwood Bridge (b) Richmond Bridge (c) St Kilda Bridge?

2. Which grand slam tennis tournament begins on Monday?

3. Australia’s first gold rush began in 1851 after the discovery of payable gold near (a) Broken Hill (b) Lismore (c) Orange?

4. During one week in July last year, presenters on which radio network missed reading four news bulletins?

5. Daylight saving ends on (a) March 5 (b) April 5 (c) May 5?

6. The 2020-21 astrological year will begin on March 21 under which star sign?

7. Last year, which Australian former world champion surfer said her decision to phone Johanna Griggs during a dark period may have saved her life?

8. Last year, which prime minister apologised for wearing brown-face makeup to a party at a school where he taught in 2001?

9. “Alas, my love, you do me wrong to cast me off discourteously,” are lyrics from which song?

10. Which two Australian prime ministers were born in the 1960s?

11. Last season, which Souths Rabbitohs player described the NRL judiciary as a “kangaroo court”?

12. Last year, Donald Trump called which British royal family member “nasty” over comments she made in 2016 threatening to move to Canada if he became president?

13. Have Australian men or women won more track and field Olympic gold medals?

14. The number of days in which month are not the same every year?

15. Which anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre was commemorated last year (a) 10th (b) 20th (c) 30th?

16. In which TV show, set in the fictional Victorian town of Yoorana, did seven people return from the dead?

17. Who scored a match-winning 135 not out for England in the 2019 third Ashes Test?

18. Who released the 1990 hit album Chain Reaction? 19. The real estate abbreviation “l.u.g.” stands for what? 20. Who played astronaut Major Roy McBride in the 2019 movie Ad Astra? 21. Responding to a question about what he would do if he ever met God, which Australian prime minister said that he would “treat Him as an equal”? 22. In 1989, which US televangelist was sentenced to 45 years in prison? 23. French inventor Barthelemy Thimonnier is credited with which 19th century invention? 24. Doyle’s Delight is the highest mountain in which country? 25. “The most famous weapon in art history” was a revolver belonging to which 19th century, ill-fated, Dutch painter?