Feeling witty, wise or just weary? Wind up for this week’s quiz.
1. What animal was known to ancient Greeks and Romans as a “horse tiger”?
2. What was World War I known as before World War II came around?
3. Whose 8th and final marriage was to a construction worker twenty years her junior, with the ceremony held at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch?
4. Who would you encounter if you had a “close encounter of the third kind”?
5. Which Australian won an Academy Award for their performance in the 2015 film Blue Jasmine?
6. The 5000km man-made fence between South Australia and Queensland is designed to keep what animal out of south-eastern Australia?
7. Who was Prime Minister of Australia for the entirety of 1992?
8. Who addressed a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 saying that it was possible to build an atomic bomb?
9. What fictional character was portrayed by George Reeves and Christopher Reeve?
10. Other than Russia, what country uses the Ruble as its currency?
11. Who wrote “The Jungle Book”, “Kim”, and “If—”?
12. What singer asked the rhetorical question “how many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man”?
13. What bay borders Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and Nunavut?
14. Where did Valentina Tereshkova go in 1963 that no women had ever gone before?
15. What common English male name (originally Welsh) starts with a double L?
16. In 2019 Australia Post released a series of 26 coins (A-Z) highlighting particular aspects of Australian culture-what was featured on the coin for the letter Z?
17. Who were the two team captains on the original ABC series of Spicks and Specks?
18. Who, along with Julia Roberts, was the star of the 1990 movie “Pretty Woman?
19. By what name is Australia’s National Science and Technology Centre better known as?
20. Monday’s child is fair of face. What is Tuesday’s child?
Bonus question: Who was the first US President born in a hospital? Answer in Quiz #13.
Answers: 1.Zebra 2.The Great War 3.Elizabeth Taylor 4.Aliens 5.Cate Blanchett 6.Dingo 7.Paul Keating 8.Albert Einstein 9.Superman 10.Belarus 11.Rudyard Kipling 12.Bob Dylan 13.Hudson Bay 14.Space 15.Lloyd 16.Zooper Dooper 17.Myf Warhurst and Alan Brough 18.Richard Gere 19.Questacon 20.Full of grace
Bonus question answer (from Quiz #11): The Order of the Falcon, established in 1921 is the national order or badge of Iceland.
