TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Which iconic Paris landmark is known as “the iron lady”?

2. Sheepshanks and carrick bends are types of (a) knots (b) opals (c) sausages?

3. In the game of rock, paper, scissors, what indicates “rock”?

4. Disgraced US cyclist Lance Armstrong celebrates which birthday today (a) 40th (b) 50th (c) 60th?

5. What is the term for the call of Australian origin for attracting attention in the bush or over a long distance?

6. Which animal is the official mammal emblem of the Northern Territory and the unofficial mammal emblem of Australia?

7. In Greek mythology, which mountain was the home of the gods and goddesses?

8. Which style of facial hair is named after a 16th-17th century Flemish artist?

9. In 1909, the Australian teams in which football codes played a three-match series against other?

10. Ibiza, an island noted as an international party venue, is in which sea?

11. Which Sydney Roosters forward was recently banned for five weeks after being sinbinned twice in a match against the Brisbane Broncos?

12. Which is the correct spelling (a) curency (b) currancy (c) currency?

13. Beginning with “u”, what is the term for the bone in the human forearm?

14. Was 19th century composer Franz Liszt Austrian or Hungarian?

15. The Black Ferns are which country’s women’s rugby team?

16. Which plant is known as “wood of the poor” in India and “friend of the people” in China?

17. What is the term for puppets controlled by string or wire?

18. What are the two given names of Mr Burns, a character in the TV show The Simpsons?

19. In the 1960s and 1970s, which Australian won seven men’s grand slam singles titles?

20. After Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Victoria, who has been the longest-reigning British monarch?

21. Name the unicameral legislature of Wales.

22. Which 1855 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem tells of the fictional adventures of a native American warrior?

23. At the age of seven, which Australian Tour de France winner spent seven days in an induced coma after being hit on the head by a horse?

24. What is the term for the type of dog which hunts primarily by sight and speed rather than by scent and endurance?

25. In 2013, who resigned as president of the Country Music Association of Australia because he was unhappy with the “growing influence of American music”?