TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Which Australian supermarket giant is colloquially known as “Woolies”?

2. Guy Fawkes was a noted participant in the (a) Boston Tea Party (b) Eureka Stockade (c) Gunpowder Plot?

3. Which grand slam tennis tournament is commonly known as The Championships?

4. The term for a baby bat is (a) batlet (b) cub (c) pup?

5. Was a pterosaur able to fly?

6. With over a million shareholders, which telco is the most widely held ASX-listed company?

7. A “Brummie” is from which English city?

8. Who recently became the first fast bowler to take 600 career test wickets?

9. Sisters Becky and Elly were contestants on which recent match-making TV show?

10. Helen Mirren won the 2006 Oscar for Best Actress for playing which queen?

11. Which test forward has been the highest career points scorer for the Brisbane Broncos?

12. The name of which ocean is first alphabetically?

13. Which bank used the advertising slogan “which bank”?

14. Is the Cox Plate horse race run in Sydney or Melbourne?

15. The final NASA moon landing mission was (a) Apollo 17 (b) Gemini 17 (c) Mercury 17?

16. In 1933, the ratification of the 21st amendment to the US constitution ended which “noble experiment”?

17. In the 2017 movie The Wife, who played the title role in which she writes the major portion of the novels for which her husband is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

18. Who won the Brownlow Medal in 2009 and 2013?

19. Name the second book of the Bible.

20. Two episodes from which Australian animated children’s TV show were recently pulled and “reworked” after complaints from viewers that the term “ooga booga” has racial connotations?

21. Which Anglo-French battle occurred on St Crispin’s Day 1415?

22. Which Victorian company, founded in 1914 and still in operation, was Australia’s first chocolate manufacturer?

23. After being shot by a radical feminist in 1968, which US pop artist had to wear a surgical corset for the rest of his life?

24. A 1456 inquisitorial court authorised by Pope Callixtus III declared who innocent of all charges 25 years after her execution?

25. According to the so-called “doomsday rule”, in a non-leap year, what is significant about the last day of February and 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12?