SUNDAY CHALLENGE

1 What is the name of the official national anthem of the USA?

A) Old Glory

B) The Star Spangled Banner

C) Nkosi Sikilele America

2 What is the capital city of Afghanistan? A) Kabul

B) Kandahar

C) Pretoria

3 According to the proverb, what is the better part of valour?

4 He is a South African rugby union coach who was named as the coach of South Africa’s national team in January 2008. What is his name?

5 Paraguay has borders with Brazil, Bolivia and which other country?

A) Argentina

B) Mexico

C) Greenland

6 What was the first Disney animated film that was not based on an already existing story?

7 What was the roman word for Spain?

8 “Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.” Name the book with this opening line?

9 Which Spanish region has the same name as a region of Eastern Europe spanning southeastern Poland and western Ukraine? A) Catalonia

B) Andalusia

C) Galicia

10 What is the boiling point of water using the scientific kelvin scale of temperature measurement?

A) 50

B) 373

C) 1354

11 What is the capital of Portugal?

12 He was a pilot, astronaut and United States senator who was the first American to orbit the Earth, the third American in space and in 1998 he became the oldest person to fly in space. Who was he?

13 It is an instrument used to measure the angle between any two visible objects.

Its primary use is to determine the angle between a celestial object and the horizon which is known as the altitude. What is the name of the instrument?

14 What automobile manufacturer’s name means “People’s car” in German?

15 Which group of artists included such luminaries as Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and Joan Miro?

16 Formerly officially known as Johannesburg International Airport and before that as Jan Smuts International Airport by what name is it now known?

17 What is the name of the branch of mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series (hint; it begins with a “C”)?

18 Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction found in females, where growth and development of embryos occurs without fertilization by a male and it occurs naturally in some invertebrate animal species as well as some vertebrates such as some reptiles. True or false?

19 He was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. He fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father and marry his mother, and thus brought disaster on his city and family. What was his name?

20 What is the term used when a golfer scores one under par on any individual golf hole?