TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Gnomes of Zurich is a colloquial term for Swiss (a) bankers (b) chocolatiers (c) tennis players?

2. Which sport is known as “the sport of kings”?

3. Noted explorer of Australia Charles Sturt was born in (a) England (b) Gibraltar (c) India?

4. The cost of No Time to Die, the latest and most expensive James Bond movie, was (a) $177m (b) $277m (c) $377m?

5. Which nursery rhyme character could eat no fat?

6. Which planet is 2 ½ times the combined size of all other planets in our solar system?

7. Forbes.com recently listed which tennis player as the world’s top-earning female athlete?

8. Which 2019 movie was a fictionalised account of an Australian bushranger and his associates?

9. Sydney and which other New South Wales city were attacked by Japanese submarines in World War II?

10. “(Lo-o-ove). There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done. (Lo-o-ove). Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung. (Lo-o-ove),” are lyrics from which song?

11. Which former Souths Rabbitohs test star will play for the Warrington Wolves in the English Super League next year?

12. A city council vote in Chicago recently decided to ban (a) horse-drawn carriages (b) scooters (c) wearing of thongs?

13. What item do badminton players hit with their racquets?

14. What is the name of Steve Irwin’s widow? 15. Which two US states have no land borders with any other state?

16. Ickabog, the title of a story offered free online to help entertain children during the pandemic, was written by which best-selling English author?

17. Who is the only Australian to play in both the cricket and soccer World Cups?

18. Which river flows over the Victoria Falls? 19. In Berlin in 1988, which Italian tenor set the world record of 165 curtain calls, lasting an hour and seven minutes?

20. Possession Island is in which Australian state/ territory?

21. In which 1962 movie did an ageing former actress hold her paraplegic ex-movie star sister captive in an old Hollywood mansion?

22. Which 26-year-old was about three months pregnant when she married 18-year-old William Shakespeare in 1582?

23. Whose portrait of Tim Burstall was disqualified from receiving the Archibald Prize on the grounds it had been painted from a blown-up photograph, rather than real life?

24. The Ferdinand Magellan, used by US presidents from 1943 to 1958, was which type of vehicle?

25. What is the term for the traditional Maori greeting of rubbing noses together?

ANSWERS

1. (a) bankers. 2. Horseracing. 3. (c) India. 4. (c) $377m. 5. Jack Spratt. 6. Jupiter. 7. Naomi Osaka. 8. True History of the Kelly Gang. 9. Newcastle. 10. All You Need is Love. 11. Greg Inglis. 12. (a) horse-drawn carriages. 13. Shuttlecock. 14. Terri Irwin. 15. Alaska, Hawaii. 16. JK Rowling. 17. Ellyse Perry. 18. Zambezi River. 19. Luciano Pavarotti. 20. Queensland. 21. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 22. Anne Hathaway. 23. John Bloomfield. 24. Rail car. 25. Hongi.