Brain test
1. Who won consecutive Best Actor Oscars in 1993 and 1994 for his role in “Philadelphia’’ and “Forrest Gump’’? 2. Which 1997 disaster film directed by James Cameron was the top grossing film of the 1990s? 3. Name the prison, now known as the Drakenstein Correctional Centre, from which Nelson Mandela was released in 1990. 4. Name the US general who led the coalition forces in the 1991 Gulf War. 5. Name the leader of the Branch Davidian cult who committed mass suicide in Texas in 1993. 6. Name the South African who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. 7. He committed suicide in 1994, name the lead singer of the grunge band Nirvana? 8. Name the captain of Bafana Bafana’s 1996 African Cup of Nations winning team. 9. What was the official currency of the Netherlands, before it adopted the euro in 1999? 10. In which country in 1997 was the first cloned sheep, Dolly, born? A) US, B) Japan, C) UK, D) France 11. Which two islands form China’s two “Special Administrative Zones’’ having formerly been, until the late 1990s, European colonies? 12. The ’90s American slang term “Dead Presidents’’ refers to what? 13. Which famous book, published in 1997, had the word “philosopher’’ in the title for the UK release, but “sorcerer’’ in the US release? 14. Which New Zealand band of the ’90s was so named for the tight conditions in which they lived at the time of the formation of the band? 15. Name the American who won a Nobel Prize in 1994 for economic game theory. His life was portrayed by Russell Crowe in “A Beautiful Mind’’. 16. Who was the only specialist spin bowler in South Africa’s 1992 World Cup cricket squad and the oldest test player to play for SA since readmission? 17. Name the 1990s TV anime series that had the slogan “Gotta Catch ’Em All’’. 18. Name the only country in Africa with no privately owned news media; this one-party state, meaning “Red Land’’ gained independence in 1993. 19. On November 4 1995 Yigal Amir assassinated which international leader, ironically at a peace rally? 20. What is the name of SA’s first satellite built entirely at the University of Stellenbosch and launched in 1999?
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