BRAINtest

1. By what name was Zimbabwe known prior to independence?

2. Which is the only star in the solar system?

3. Lent always begins on which day of the week?

4. The parliament of which country is known as the Cortes Generales? 5. What is the background colour of the United Nations flag?

6. If A is Alpha and B is Bravo then what is T?

7. Whose albums include “Diamonds and Pearls” and “Around the World in a Day”?

8. What is the colour of the cap worn by Australian Test cricketers? 9. The Netflix series, “The Crown” is a biographical television series about which monarch?

10. What art movement would you associate with Belgian Rene Magritte? A) Romantic B) Impressionist, C) Expressionist, D) Surrealist

11. Which film director married Sharon Tate in 1968? A) Frank Capra, B) Roman Polanski, C) Robert Mulligan, D) Francis Ford Coppola

12. Who won an Oscar for playing the musician Ray Charles in the biopic “Ray”?

13. What meat is used in osso bucco? A) Beef, B) Lamb, C) Pork, D) Goat

14. Which Frenchman designed the Italian flag? A) Descartes, B) Chopin, C) Napoleon,

D) Louis XIV

15. Which Beatles album features the members walking over a zebra crossing?

16. What is another name for the flowers known as busy lizzies? A) Pansies, B) Chamelias, C) Impatiens, D) Daisies

17. In the 1970s, which footballer was accused of stealing a passport and fur coat from Miss World? A) Pele, B) George Best, C) Johan Cruyff, D) Michel Platini

18. Where in SA is Crooks’ Corner? 19. Which author, who began her career writing for the Daily Express in London, published her first book in 1925? She published more than 720 books by the time of her death in 2000. She also helped develop long-distance aerotow gliding in the 1920s and was obsessed with the colour pink.

20. What was the nationality of short-story writer Jorge Luis Borges?

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