Test your wits with this week’s quiz.

1. What Australian state has no passenger trains, only freight trains?
2. In which country would you find Omaha, Juno, and Utah beaches?
3. In what type of sea creature do the males carry fertilised eggs inside them?
4. What Japanese company has been the world’s largest motorcycle maker since 1959?
5. What four words stereotypically start a fairy tale?
6. What part of the atmosphere is named for its high concentration of O3 molecules?
7. Which mainland Australian city lies closest to Kangaroo Island?

8. What style of medieval architecture is named for a Germanic tribe that invaded the Roman Empire?
9. What was the field of study which attempted to turn base metals into gold?
10. What does the V in EVOO stand for?
11. Who was born in Zanzibar in 1946 and died in London in 1991 due to complications from AIDS?
12. What is the name of the town that has Australia’s oldest bridge?
13. Which country suffers at least 10,000 deaths due to snakebites each year –by far the most of any country?
14. Whose funeral in 1965 was, at the time, the largest state funeral in British history?
15. The Bathurst 1000 is known as ‘The Great Race’ by motorsport fans, but where is it held?
16. What legendary city in modern-day Turkey was unearthed by archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in 1871?
17. Which country do the Azores belong to?
18. ‘Not Happy Jan‘ has become a mainstay in Aussie lexicon, but what product was being advertised when this now-iconic line was delivered?
19. In the TV series “Fawlty Towers”, what name did Manuel give to his pet rat?
20. Which scientist had his “Invention Factory” at Menlo Park, New Jersey?

Bonus question: A tegestologist collects what? Answer in next week’s Quiz.

Answers: 1.Tasmania 2. France 3. Sea horse 4. Honda 5. Once upon a time 6. Ozone layer 7. Adelaide 8. Gothic 9. Alchemy 10. Virgin-Extra Virgin Olive Oil 11. Freddie Mercury 12. Richmond in Tasmania 13. India 14. Winston Churchill 15. Mount Panorama 16. Troy 17. Portugal 18. Yellow Pages 19. Basil 20. Thomas Edison. Answer to last week’s bonus question: Of the 25 deadliest snakes in the world, 21 of them are found in Australia.