Brain test

1. Which Asian country is the only country to have a flag that is not four-sided? A) India; B) Thailand; C) Nepal; D) China 2. Which Italian artist designed the machine gun, parachute and helicopter? 3. Name the former Cuban leader who was also a Major League Baseball pitcher. 4. Which famous magician died after being punched in the stomach by an amateur boxer? 5. He has a PhD in astrophysics, but Brian May is better known as the guitarist of which band? 6. What connects the British songs “Come Together”, “God Save the Queen” and “Lola”? 7. Name the dancer, Oscar-winning actor, Bond villain and star of “The Deer Hunter” who was once a lion tamer. 8. Name the Greek god of destiny whose name is synonymous with an arch-enemy. 9. Whose hand was the subject of the first X-ray? A) Abraham Lincoln; B) Thomas Edison; C) Mark Twain; D) Charlie Chaplin 10. Name the only major European country which fought on opposite sides in the two world wars. 11. Robert Carlisle in the “Rise of Evil”; Alec Guiness in “The last 10 years” and Bruno Ganz in “The Downfall” all played which character? 12. It’s called “peru” in Portuguese; “of India” in French; “Roman chicken” in Arabic, “Ethiopian chicken” in Eastern Arabic and “French chicken” in Greek. What is it called in English? 13. Who wrote the children’s book “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”? 14. What is a theramin? A) The only instrument that is not touched when played; B) A maths equation that can’t be solved; C) Only mammal with more than two eyes; D) World’s longest worm (276m) 15. Name the common fruit, classified as a berry, that contains radioactive potassium and grows on a plant that “walks” away from where it is planted. 16. Which human invention was the first to travel faster than the speed of sound? 17. Name the Wallaby captain who became the Australian Sudoku champion in 2011. 18. Which Asian river, the 12th longest in the world, reverses its natural direction every April? 19. What are competitors required to hold in a game of kabbadi? 20. Who is the only person to have been nominated for three Emmy’s playing the same character in three different TV sitcoms?