If you get more than 10 on this trickiest of quizzes, count yourself a trivia whiz!
1. Which children’s author’s works include Noddy and The Famous Five?
2. The Spanish word dinero is the translation of which English word?
3. Australia’s most common birthday is the 17th of which month?
4. Which comedy troupe featured John Cleese, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam?
5. From Romeo and Juliet which one of them dies first?
6. Which Pulitzer prize winning novelist participated in the anti-Vietnam War March on the Pentagon in October 1967?
7. What is the capital of Vietnam?
8. Which professional golfer was nicknamed The Great White Shark?
9. What is the fastest sea animal?
10. What horse racing scandal erupted in 1984 when the horse racing as a ring-in won the race and then began to drip white paint off his legs?
11. Norwood, Unley and Prospect are all suburbs in which Australian city?
12. Which is the only country in the world whose name features F as its second letter?
13. Proverbially, what is closest to godliness?
14. True or false-since colonisation, snowfall has been observed at Uluru.
15. What was the name of the original Red Wiggle?
16. What is the largest city that the River Thames flows through?
17. What band released ‘Sounds of Then (This is Australia)’ in 1985?
18. What is the smallest mammal in Australia?
19. Where is the Darfur region of Africa?
20. Joey Chestnut is famous in what sport?
Bonus question: Thailand is divided into how many provinces? Answer in Quiz #20.
Answers: 1.Enid Blyton 2.Money 3.September 4.Monty Python 5.Romeo 6.Norman Mailer 7.Hanoi 8.Greg Norman 9.The sailfish 10.Fine Cotton Scandal 11.Adelaide 12.Afghanistan 13.Cleanliness 14.True (recorded on July 11, 1977) 15.Murray 16.London, England 17.Gang Gajang 18.The long-tailed planigale (marsupial) 19.Sudan 20.Competitive eating
Bonus question answer (from Quiz #18): The currency of Armenia is the Dram.
