BRAIN test

1. In food and drink, what are Arborio, japonica and bomba?

2. What was the third “Die Hard” film called?

3. Easter Island is part of which country? A) Australia, B) Tonga, C) Chile, D) Ecuador

4. Which South African town was the capital of the former homeland of the Transkei?

5. In the Bible, Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of what?

6. Before becoming president of the United States, George W Bush was governor of which state? A) Florida, B) Minnesota, C) Ohio, D) Texas

7. What “B” was the name of England’s wartime code-breaking station?

8. What is an ampersand?

9. With which band would you associate the members Axl Rose and Slash? 10. Which of these molecules has the largest number of constituent elements? A) Water, B) Methane, C) Sucrose, D) Ammonia

11. Which actor, star of “High Society”, died on a Spanish golf course in 1977? His final words were reportedly: “That was a great game of golf, fellas.”

12. Which British royal has been married to Captain Mark Phillips and Timothy Laurence?

13. Who wrote “Pygmalion” and “Caesar and Cleopatra”? A) Oscar Wilde, B) Wilkie Collins, C) George Bernard Shaw, D) Harold Pinter

14. Which book, written by Alice Walker, was made into a film starring Whoopi Goldberg?

15. Which musician was chairman of Watford Football Club when they made the FA Cup final?

16. In which country was tennis player Ilie Nastase born? A) Hungary, B) Israel, C) Romania, D) Brazil

17. What type of comedy comes from the old practice of having a club with two slats of wood that would make a loud smacking sound? It was used, in particular, to produce punching sound effects in a comedic fight.

18. By what name, meaning “little barrel”, is the artist born Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi known?

19. Which alto-sax-playing jazz musician is regarded as the pioneer of the style known as bebop?

20. Which animal’s young is known as a leveret (the collective noun for this animal is a drove)? Answers on this page