TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Name the world’s largest tropical rainforest.

2. The names of which two zodiac signs begin with a vowel?

3. How many matches did the All Blacks win against the Wallabies in the 2020, four-test Bledisloe Cup series (a) two (b) three (c) four?

4. Which is the correct spelling (a) publically (b) publiclly (c) publicly?

5. What is the sum of a gross and a score?

6. Richard Dreyfuss played a marine biologist in which 1975 movie?

7. Which term generally refers to regions in the Americas where Spanish, Portuguese or French languages prevail?

8. Stones and brooms are items of equipment in which sport?

9. Which word, beginning with “p” and coming from the French words for “thick” and “skin”, refers to animals such as elephants and rhinoceroses?

10. In a 2020 memoir, Barack Obama gave which reason for not choosing Hillary Clinton as his 2008 running mate?

11. Last year, which former Queensland tourism minister was appointed to the Australian Rugby League Commission?

12. Who received Oscar nominations for playing the same boxer in 1976 and 2015 movies?

13. Charles Atlas was a noted Italian-American (a) bodybuilder (b) cartographer (c) explorer?

14. Golf stars Ernie Els and Gary Player are from (a) England (b) New Zealand (c) South Africa?

15. Mick de Brenni is the Queensland state minister for (a) hydrogen (b) nitrogen (c) oxygen?

16. The warning word “hazchem” was formed from which two words?

17. Gatun Lake, a large artificial freshwater lake, forms a major part of which canal?

18. Which sport originated as military training for the Swedish military in the late 19th century?

19. In which 1973 James Bond movie did Mr Big, a Harlem drug lord, plan to distribute two tons of heroin for free to put rival drug barons out of business?

20. Who played Alexander the Great in the 2004 movie Alexander?

21. Which flightless, nocturnal New Zealand bird is also known as the owl parrot?

22. Which Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner almost died after being in plane crashes on successive days in 1954?

23. Which nursery rhyme was reputedly inspired by the astronomical clock at Exeter Cathedral, England?

24. The February 26 Incident was an attempted coup d’état in which country in 1936?

25. Set in 2019, the world record innings total for a T20 International is held by which two countries?

ANSWERS

1. Amazon. 2. Aquarius, Aries. 3. (a) two.

4. (c) publicly. 5. 164. 6. Jaws. 7. Latin America.

8. Curling. 9. Pachyderm. 10. Couldn’t face Bill Clinton roaming around the White House without a job. 11. Kate Jones. 12. Sylvester Stallone.

13. (a) bodybuilder. 14. (c) South Africa.

15. (a) hydrogen. 16. Hazardous, chemicals.

17. Panama Canal. 18. Orienteering. 19. Live and Let Die. 20. Colin Farrell. 21. Kakapo. 22. Ernest Hemingway. 23. Hickory Dickory Dock. 24. Japan.

25. Afghanistan, Czech Republic. (278).