TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. A pentadecagon has how many sides (a) 5 (b) 15 (c) 50?

2. Michelin stars are awarded as a rating system to (a) hospitals (b) restaurants (c) tyre manufacturers?

3. The name of Joe Biden’s 13-year-old family german shepherd which recently died was (a) Champ (b) Scamp (c) Zamp?

4. Lake Como in Italy is noted for being in the shape of the letter (a) X (b) Y (c) Z?

5. Michael Phelps won how many Olympic medals (a) 18 (b) 28 (c) 38?

6. Mal de mer is the French term for which medical ailment?

7. What is the term for a dog cross-bred from a beagle and a pug?

8. “We’ve got two strong hearts. We stick together like the honey and the bee, you and me,” are lyrics from which song?

9. The Gospel According to Paul is a one-man show about which former Australian prime minister?

10. Which major Australian horse race was run in two divisions in 1946?

11. Which 18-year-old fullback was recently selected to make his State of Origin debut for Queensland but was forced to withdraw because of injury?

12. Recently closing after the government froze its assets was which Hong Kong newspaper (a) Apple Daily (b) Banana Daily (c) Peach Daily?

13. Which is the correct spelling (a) disenfectant (b) disinfectant (c) disinfectent?

14. In the 1940 movie Pinnochio, Monstro is a (a) giraffe (b) elephant (c) whale?

15. Which 18th century nursery rhyme character “sings for his supper”?

16. Which recent movie told how Cruella de Vil acquired her hatred of dalmatians?

17. After resigning from the position in 2018, who was recently sworn in as Australia’s deputy prime minister?

18. Forensic psychiatrist Emma Robertson examined why a young woman with two children asleep in the back, deliberately drove her car through a roadblock into freezing water in which TV show?

19. Which state government recently agreed to provide education and health services to Norfolk Island?

20. Which Spanish golfer won the 2021 US Open?

21. In 1924, which company’s last horse-drawn stagecoach service in Australia was between Yuleba and Surat in Queensland?

22. In 1986, after being stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria, which Picasso painting was found in locker 227 in Melbourne’s Spencer Street railway station?

23. Located on the equatorial bulge, the summit of which Ecuadorian inactive volcano is the farthest point from the centre of the Earth?

24. In 2019, which Welsh defending champion was fined $290 for littering during the Tour de France?

25. The medical ailment lateral epicondylitis is better known as which sport-related term?