You know you really should be getter better at these by now …
1. What is the capital of Bangladesh?
2. Tom Cruise played a professional sports agent in what 1996 film?
3. Which reality TV series did Donald Trump host?
4. Life’s Good is the slogan of which tech company?
5. What American president kept raccoons in the White House?
6. Which year was the last in which the Summer and the Winter Olympics were held in the same year?
7. Which computer game contains the characters Lara Croft, Larson, Jacqueline Natla and Pierre Dupont?
8. In Germany, what is an autobahn?
9. What was the Musée d’Orsay in Paris used for before it was an art gallery?
10. After Gianni Versace died, Donatella Versace, formerly vice-president, stepped in as creative director of Versace. What relation is she to Gianni?
11. What would you expect a quidnunc to do?
12. Brazzaville is the capital of which African country?
13. In a 1956 interview with the American journalist Anna Louise Strong, Mao Zedong described the USA as a paper what?
14. Where would you go to see exposed one of the most complete sequences of rock anywhere, representing a period of nearly 2 billion years of the Earth’s history?
15. The Grand Prince of Moscow who was crowned Tsar when aged 16 on 16 January 1547, became known as whom?
16. In what year did Melbourne finally end the Curse of Norm Smith when they defeated the Western Bulldogs in the AFL Grand Final?
17. What singer’s 1997 debut single, a cover of Torn was a Billboard Top 40 #1 song?
18. What is both Australia’s largest native terrestrial land mammal and the largest living marsupial?
19. What was the main cause of 2017-18 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis?
20. Which US state’s name comes from the Spanish word for mountain?
Bonus question: In which English city was Guy Fawkes, of the Gunpowder Plot fame, born? Answer in Quiz #31.
Answers: 1.Dhaka 2.Jerry Maguire 3.The Apprentice 4.LG 5.Calvin Coolidge 6.1992 7.Tomb Raider 8.Motorway/highway 9.Train station 10.Sister 11.Gossip, or spread news 12.Republic of Congo 13.Tiger 14.The Grand Canyon, USA 15. Ivan the Terrible 16.2021 17.Natalie Imbruglia 18. The red kangaroo 19.Dual citizenship held by 15 politicians 20.Montana
Bonus question answer (from Quiz #29): Charlie Wax is a fictional secret agent in the 2010 film, From Paris With Love.
