BRAIN test

1. Which of these boxing weight divisions is the heaviest? A) Cruiserweight, B) Middleweight, C) Welterweight, D) Bantamweight

2. What is the first name of the 11-year-old girl who went to live at Green Gables?

3. Claustrophobia is the fear of what?

4. What “E” is a Japanese word (now used in English) meaning emoticon or picture-gram?

5. According to the children's nursery rhyme, who tried to mend his head with “vinegar and brown paper”?

6 Who did Ronald Reagan succeed as US president?

7. A4 and A2 are two sizes of what?

8. In which capital city would you find the Champs-Élysées?

9. Which band recorded the album “Dark Side of the Moon”?

10. Yelena Isinbayeva became the first woman to clear 5m in which athletics event?

11. Which composer had the first names Peter Ilyich?

12. In which 1988 film did Bob Hoskins play opposite a variety of cartoon characters?

13. Who wrote “The Big Sleep”? A) John Steinbeck, B) Raymond Chandler, C) Aldous Huxley, D) Virginia Woolf

14. What animal completes the title of the 1980 Robert De Niro film “Raging …”.

15. Which French girl led a relief unit at the Siege of Orleans against the English in the 15th century?

16. What type of entertainment did PT Barnum refer to as “The Greatest Show on Earth”?

17. If A is alpha and B is bravo, then what is U?

18. What is the present name for the African state formerly known as Dahomey? A) Gambia, B) Benin, C) Burundi, D) Ghana

19. In which year in music did the following happen: “Macarena” is a number one hit; the Spice Girls release their debut album titled “Spice”; Backstreet Boys are formed; Tupac Shakur is shot dead? A) 1990, B) 1993, C) 1996, D) 1999

20. In science what “T” is a word defined as “the moment of a force, or a force that causes rotation”?

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