Have you been practising? Reading up big so you can beat these quizzes? Hope really does spring eternal then.

1. Aspartame is a chemical used as what?
2. What was the name of the lion in “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, a 2005 film based on the “Narnia” books by C S Lewis?
3. What 1983 Scottish film, starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi and Burt Lancaster, was directed by Bill Forsyth with music by Mark Knopfler?
4. Which ocean is closest to the capital of Australia?

5. What worldwide movement describing itself as “a fellowship of men and women” was co-founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio?
6. What family has three Australian national cricket captains among its members?
7. What film’s tagline was ‘A little pig goes a long way’?
8. How many toes do sheep have on each foot?
9. Which iconic singer-songwriter was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941?
10. What is China’s longest river?
11. What mountain range separates the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau?
12. Brazil is the world’s biggest coffee producer. What country is the second biggest?
13. What part of an egg does albumen come from?
14. In Michelangelo’s painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Adam’s finger points to whom?
15. Which was the first Soviet Union republic to establish its independence when the Soviet Union was dissolving?
16. How many lanes does an Olympic standard swimming pool have?
17. What era defining drug was first approved for US use in 1960?
18. Who played the title role in the 1964 musical film Mary Poppins?
19. What is the capital of Bahrain?
20. How many squares are there on a chess board?

Bonus question: Which actress is the voice of Miss Bianca in the 1977 Disney film ‘The Rescuers’? Answer in Quiz #32.

Answers: 1.Sweetener 2.Aslan 3.Local Hero 4.Pacific Ocean 5.Alcoholics Anonymous 6.The Chappell family-brothers Ian and Greg and grandfather Vic Richardson 7.Babe 8.Two 9.Bob Dylan 10.Yangtze (Chang Jiang) 11.Himalayas 12.Vietnam 13.Egg white 14.God 15.Lithuania 16.Eight 17.The birth control pill 18.Julie Andrews 19.Manama 20.64 squares.
Bonus question answer (from Quiz #30): Guy Fawkes, of the Gunpowder Plot fame was born in the English city of York.