Brain test

1. What film character has been played by Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, Adam West, George Clooney and Christian Bale? 2. Which country has the states Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria? 3. In which city does the Comrades Marathon “downrun” finish? 4. Name the SABC presenter and broadcaster who died while watching a rugby match in Bloemfontein this year. 5. In education, what does MBA stand for? 6. Name the pharaoh whose tomb was discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon in 1923? 7. Which literary figure coined the words eyeball, bedroom, downstairs and accessible? 8. Who created the characters Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger and Winnie the Pooh? 9. What song contains the lyrics If her daddy’s rich,

take her out for a meal ? 10. In medicine, which word, also meaning “evil”, is used to describe an aggressive cancer? 11. Name the TV series that revolves around doctors at a Seattle hospital, starring Patrick Dempsey and Ellen Pompeo. 12. Who designed the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria? A) Sir Herbert Baker; B) Gerard Moerdijk; C) CJ Langenhoven; D) Neville Lewis 13. The Aviator is a biographical film of which famous person’s life? 14. If you were living in Mangaung Municipality, in which city might you be? 15. Which fashion designer invented the mini skirt? 16. He wrote UB40’s hit Red, Red Wine and I'm a

Believer which was a hit for the Monkees. Who is he? A) Neil Diamond; B) Bob Dylan; C) Paul McCartney; D) Frankie Valli 17. Which two planets in the solar system do not have moons? 18. Name the British Nazi propagandist who frequently ran anti-Allies broadcasts and was known for his trademark introduction, “Germany calling, Germany calling”. A) Baron Sedgefield; B) Lord Haw Haw; C) Earl of Wetton; D) Viscount Rapscallion 19. Which South African poet and author wrote The

True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist and Lewendood? 20. Against which side at the 1996 cricket World Cup did Gary Kirsten score 188, the highest ODI score by a South African?