How smart are you? Challenge yourself, your family or workmates with the Monday Superquiz

1 POINT

1 How many times has Australian singer Kylie Minogue been married? 2 Who is the only non-USborn player to win the Most Valuable Player award in the US’s WNBA?

3 In which ocean did the

Titanic sink in 1912? 4 George Harrison (pictured) was a member of which famous British band?

5 In the nursery rhyme

Humpty Dumpty, where was Humpty Dumpty sitting before he had a great fall? 6 From what fruit do raisins originate?

7 What is the capital of Papua New Guinea?

8 In what year did Donald Trump assume office as the 45th US president?

9 In which Australian state or territory is the annual Tamworth Music Festival staged?

10 Which two NRL teams did Greg Inglis play for from 2005 to 2019?

2 POINTS

11 In which Australian state or territory was champion tennis player Lleyton Hewitt born?

12 Who penned the novels

The Thomas Berryman

Number (1976), Cross My Heart (2013) and Criss Cross (2019)?

13 Which character did Kim Cattrall play in the US TV series Sex and the City (1998-2004)?

14 Which potato chip/crisp has the slogan of “Once you pop, you can’t stop” or “Once you pop, the fun don’t stop”?

15 What is the primary ingredient in hummus? 16 What are the world’s only two egg-laying mammals? 17 What is a cittern? 18 Australian Ric Charlesworth (pictured) is best known for competing at the highest levels of which two sports? 19 From which country did kiwifruit originate? 20 Who was the second astronaut to walk on the moon’s surface?

3 POINTS

21 In which decade was the Australian two-cent coin withdrawn from circulation? 22 What is the birth name of Australian author and poet Dorothea Mackellar? 23 In what year did Jesinta Campbell (now Franklin, pictured) win Miss Universe Australia and was second runner-up at Miss Universe?

24 Which former Australian triathlon world champion married Olympic archery gold medalist Simon Fairweather in 2004? 25 Scottish physician and biologist Alexander Fleming discovered what antibiotic? 26 Brobdingnag is the fictional land occupied by giants in which famous satirical novel? 27 Which famous explorer and navigator named the Pacific Ocean?

28 Who, at 37, was the youngest person to take office as the Australian prime minister?

29 What is a unit of geologic time equal to one billion years?

30 Which vessel was awarded to the White Star Line as compensation for the loss of the HMHS Britannic and renamed RMS Majestic?