BRAINtest

1. Complete the title of the TV series starring Steve Buscemi and Kelly MacDonald: “Boardwalk …”.

2. How many dominoes are there in a full set?

3. Which European city is known as the “Eternal City”? A) Rome, B) Paris, C) Athens, D) Budapest

4. Which SA province is home to the newspaper the Daily Dispatch? 5. Who created the literary character Horatio Hornblower? A) CS Forester, B) Herman Melville, C) Daniel Defoe, D) Robert Louis Stevenson

6. In George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, what type of animal is Boxer? A) Pig, B) Horse, C) Cow, D) Dog

7. With what part of the body does the medical field of podiatry concern itself?

8. What do the letters BMX stand for?

9. Kevin Kline plays the role of which musician in the biopic

“De-lovely”? A) Cole Porter, B) Glenn Miller, C) Benny

Goodman, D) Tommy Dorsey

10. Name the director from the list of films: “Truman Show”, “Dead Poets Society” and “Master and Commander”. A) Gus van Sant, B) Milos Forman, C) Peter Weir, D) Sophia Coppola

11. Vinson Massif is the tallest mountain on which continent?

12. In heraldry, if a flag is said to be argent in colour, what colour is it? A) Red, B) Blue, C) Green, D) White 13. The Mason-Dixon Line once divided which country?

14. What was the nationality of the soldiers who discovered the Rosetta Stone that enabled archaeologists to translate hieroglyphics for the first time?

15. One of SA’s premier private game reserves is Mala Mala. What does Mala Mala mean? A) Waterhole, B) Thorn tree, C) Kudu, D) White termite 16. Complete the next five words of the following lyric:

Goddess on the mountain top Burning like a silver flame

The summit of beauty and love 17. The South African Mickie Most became the manager of a band whose hits include “Club A Gogo”, “We Gotta Get Out of this Place” and “House of the Rising Sun”. Name the band.

18. What is the name of the group of elements to which fluorine, bromine, chlorine and iodine belong? A) Rare-earth metals, B) Noble gasses, C) Halogens, D) Actinides

19. Which city hosted the 1956 Olympic Games? A) Madrid, B) Melbourne, C) Stockholm, D) Antwerp

20. Which 20th-century actor, dramatist and composer wrote the plays “The Vortex”, “Fallen Angels”, “Hay Fever” and “Private Lives”? Answers on this page