BRAINtest

This week all answers are two characters in length.

1. What two letters would you find on a standard Cape Town number plate?

2. Complete the English phrase “. . . and behold”.

3. Complete the musical scale: do re mi fa so la . . .

4. If South Africa’s website addresses end with ZA, then what do German websites end with?

5. Name the alien film character with a glowing finger who was transported in a bicycle basket.

6. Which 2009 animated film features a widower, Carl, who ties thousands of helium balloons to his house and flies to South America?

7. What were the initials of South African apartheid prime minister Malan?

8. The literary characters Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tinman and Lion went to the Emerald City to ask for help from which fraudulent wizard?

9. In boxing, what two letters are used when a boxer has been knocked down and stays down beyond the count of 10?

10. Which TV series created by novelist and doctor Michael Chrichton starred George Clooney, Anthony Edwards and Angela Bassett?

11. Name the world’s secondhighest peak after Mount Everest.

12. What name links a Telly Tubby, the title character in the “Kung Fu Panda” film franchise and the longest river in Italy?

13. What was the name of the Egyptian god of the Sun?

14. What is the name of the poem that features the line: “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same”? The line is written on the wall at the players’ entrance of Wimbledon’s Centre Court.

15. What all-girls’ band had a 1992 hit with “Pretend We’re Dead”? A) R9, B) K9, C) G3, D) L7

16. What is the chemical symbol for tin? A) Ti, B) Tn, C) Sn, D) Ld

17. Which band has as members Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton?

18. According to biblical texts, what two-letter city in Mesopotamia is the reported birthplace of Abraham?

19. Freud’s model of the psyche comprises three component parts: the ego, the super-ego and what else (representing one’s instinctual drives)?

20. He is the only player to be an All-Star in both NFL and MLB (American top-flight football and baseball). His surname is Jackson, what is his first name?

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