BRAIN test

This week’s theme is “Alphabet Soup”.

1. What “A” is a mountain, featured in the Bible and the Torah, that is the highest point in Turkey (at 5,137m)? (Pictured.)

2. What “B” is a British singer who has had hits with “Wuthering Heights”, “Running Up That Hill” and “Hounds of Love”?

3. What “C” is the meaning of the word “corona” (as in corona virus) in Latin?

4. What “D” is an actor who links the following films: “The Martian”, “Good Will Hunting” and “The Bourne Identity”?

5. What “E” is measured in amperes?

6. What “F” is a secretive group of people that had its beginnings with its first Great Lodge in 1717?

7. What “G” is a musical where Maurice Chevalier sang “Thank Heaven for Little Girls”?

8. What “H” wrote “The Mayor of Casterbridge” and “The Return of the Native”?

9. What “I” is a country where Jan van Riebeeck died?

10. What “J” is a mythical creature that forms the title of a poem by Lewis Carroll that begins: ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe? 11. What “K” is a chemical element the name of which comes from Greek for “hidden”?

12. What “L” is an NBA (basketball) team that links the following players: Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Shaquille O’Neal? 13. What “M” is an Italian family the members of which were the basis for the wisemen in Botticelli’s famous work “Adoration of the Magi”?

14. What “N” is a country that is divided by the Cook Strait?

15. What “P” is an American film director, director of “Chinatown”, who has been unable to return to the US due to unresolved charges relating to alleged inappropriate relations with a minor?

16. What “R”, after being selected for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946, broke the colour-line in Major League Baseball?

17. What “S” is a motor vehicle manufacturer with models such as the Korando, Actyon and Kyron?

18. What “T” was a TV series featuring the characters Howling Mad Murdock and Faceman?

19. What “W” is a jazz singer, born with the name Ruth Lee Jones who had her biggest hit with “What a Difference a Day Makes”?

20. What “Y” became the president of the Russian Federation in July 1991?

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