Think you’re all swotted up and ready for the toughies? This quiz will test you.

1. What is the most used illicit drug in the world?
2. Of the body’s 78 organs, which comes first alphabetically?
3. Doosra, leg cutter and slower ball are all types of what?
4. What spice is a major ingredient in traditional Valencian paella recipes?
5. What is the star sign for someone born on June 30th?
6. What happens to Veruca Salt during her tour of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory?
7. Who is believed to be the first European to land on and map Australian soil in 1606?

8. Where is St Peter’s Basilica located?
9. What Hawthorn forward played 189 VFL/AFL games for the club, winning 5 premierships and the club’s best and fairest award in 1985?
10. Which ancient mathematician has a namesake theorem for finding the length of the sides of a triangle?
11. What title is given to Germany’s head of government?
12. Pearly salons is an anagram of which Australian Olympic gold medallist?
13. Australians born between 2011 and 2021 were labelled as what by the 2021 Census?
14. What golfer won the 1997 Masters Tournament becoming the youngest ever to do so?
15. George Clooney won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2005 for what film?
16. What river’s yearly flooding provided early Egyptians with fertile land on which to grow crops?
17. What is the largest and longest land snake in Australia?
18. As of 2025 which actress has received the most Oscar nominations?
19. Which country’s capital city is Tripoli?
20. Which 1992 film marked Whitney Houston’s first starring role?

Bonus question: The Oahe Dam is in which US state? Answer in Quiz #18.

Answers: 1.Cannabis 2.Adrenal glands 3.Bowling variations in cricket 4.Saffron 5.Cancer 6.She goes down a garbage chute 7.Willem Janszoon 8.Vatican City 9.Dermot Brereton 10.Pythagorus 11.Chancellor 12.Sally Pearson 13. Generation Alpha 14.Tiger Woods 15.Syriana 16.The Nile 17.Scrub python 18.Meryl Streep 19.Libya 20.The Bodyguard
Bonus question answer (from Quiz #16): The historical mother who famously said: “If you bungle raising your children, I’m not sure whatever else you do matters much.” was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.