Test your knowledge

1. Who created the cartoon cat Garfield?

2. What is the standard unit of electrical resistance?

3. Which Spanish pop duo had a 1993 hit with LaMacarena? 4. Which driver pairing won the 2020 Bathurst 1000?

5. What is the most populous city of Canada?

6. Bufobufo is the scientific name for which animal?

7. Who was the bass player for Nirvana?

8. In what year did Ceylon become Sri Lanka?

9. In which sport do you have wood and a jack?

10. What was the name of Courteney Cox’s character on Friends? 11. In which country is the city of Mecca located?

12. Halloween has its origins in which ancient Celtic festival? 13. In which US state was poet Emily Dickinson born?

14. Catharsis is a Greek word meaning what?

15. Which spice is cultivated from the bark of a small evergreen tree, native to Sri Lanka?

16. Which Austrian artist painted TheKiss ( DerKuss) between 1907 and 1908?

17. Apart from the white ball, how many other balls are used in the game snooker?

18. What nationality was writer Franz Kafka?

19. What was the name of Lord Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar?

20. In what year did Sydney’s monorail system open?

21. What is Africa’s most populous city?

22. What woollen head covering was originally worn by soldiers in the Crimean War?

23. Of the five boroughs of New York, which is the largest in area?

24. Which country won the 2018 FIFA World Cup?

25. Which character does Kristen Bell voice in the Frozen films? 26. In what year did Pat Cash win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon? 27. Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Captain Bligh on which British ship in 1789?

28. Which is the thinner of the two bones in the lower leg, above the ankle?

29. What nationality was painter Hieronymus Bosch?

30. At the age of 83, who became the oldest actor to win an Academy Award?