brain test

1. Name the extinct long-toothed feline also known as Smilodon. 2. In The Wizard of Oz, the scarecrow was looking for a brain and the tin man was looking for a heart. What was the lion looking for? 3. With which country would you associate the Hello Kitty brand? 4. By what epithet was Richard I of England better known? 5. The South African songwriter Solomon Linda sold the rights to one of his songs for 10 shillings. It became world-famous and was included on the soundtrack to The Lion King. Name the song. 6. Yusuf Islam is the Islamic name of a folk singer. By what name was he known in the ’70s and ’80s? 7. Name the breed of cat — from a small island in the British Isles — that is born with no tail? 8. In the children’s TV series Postman Pat, what is the cat’s name? 9. Edwin Landseer’s famous sculptures of four lions are found where in London? A) Piccadilly Circus; B) Trafalgar Square; C) Leicester Square; D) Tower Bridge. 10. Who gave the voice to the character Puss-in-Boots in the Shrek series of films? 11. What is the feline name for the Mac operating system first released in 2009? 12. In the book Born Free by Joy Adamson, what is the name of the central character, an orphaned lioness? 13. The Tiger Moth biplane was designed and manufactured by which organisation? A) De Havilland; B) Douglas; C) Lockheed; D) Northrop 14. In most of South Africa’s national languages, nkwe/ngwe is the name for which member of the Big Five? 15. Who wrote the poem beginning “Tyger, tyger, burning bright, in the forest of the night”? 16. Who captained the British and Irish Lions on their tour of Australia this year? 17. Which mayor of medieval London is often associated with a cat? 18. Which 20th-century author, fisherman and biggame hunter, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954, kept six-toed cats? 19. What is Tiger Woods’s first name? 20. He wrote A Game Ranger’s Diary, was one of the first rangers of the Kruger Park, and famously killed a lion with his knife. Who was he?