Test your knowledge

1 In which country are the Bitter Lakes located?

2 What is a Gigli saw used for?

3 How many times was Mary Queen of Scots married?

4 Rich Uncle Pennybags serves as the mascot for what?

5 A deck of Uno consists of how many cards?

6 The flag of Jordan consists of which four colours?

7 What sort of animal is a Bombay duck?

8 Coulrophobia is the fear of what?

9 Where is the Australian motorcycle Grand Prix held annually?

10 TheKiss is an 1882 marble sculpture by which sculptor?

11 Who was the author of Frankenstein?

12 Which country’s capital city shares its name with an obsolete British jet bomber?

13 In what year was online auction site eBay founded?

14 Who played Clark ‘Mouth’ Devereaux in TheGoonies?

15 Off the coast of which country is the Gulf of Carpentaria?

16 What is the culinary term for cutting food into long, thin strips?

17 Which city in China has twice as many skyscrapers as New York?

18 Who wrote the children’s book Charlotte’sWeb?

19 Bucharest is the capital of which eastern European nation?

20 What were the first names of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy?

21 Which extinct bird appears on the coat of arms of Mauritius?

22 What is Australia’s most venomous spider?

23 For how long in its 248-year orbit is the dwarf planet Pluto closer to the sun than Neptune?

24 How old was Jennifer Connelly when she starred in the fantasy classic Labyrinth?

25 In what year was the first known crossword published?

26 The word “goodbye” is a contraction of what phrase?

27 To cook something en papillote is to what?

28 Which structure in the Kremlin stands more than 80m high and at one time was the tallest structure in Moscow?

29 Which New York City street is synonymous with the American advertising industry?

30 The Nullarbor Plain derived its name from which language: (a) Australian Aboriginal (b) Latin (c) Welsh?