Reader\'s Digest Australia - 07.2019

142 | July• 2019

TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Trivia

BRAIN POWER

Gravitational waves.4. West.3. ‘Unchained Melody’.2. The House of Bourbon.1. ANSWERS:

Singapore.9. The Qing dynasty.8. Lloyd.7. Face with tears of joy.6. Grandmaster.5.

60.12. Bombay.11. The camel.10.

1.Sharing its name with a whiskey,

what European royal house

still holds power in Spain and

Luxembourg?2 points

2.The B-side to the Righteous

Brothers’ 1965 single ‘Hung On You’

turned out to be their biggest hit.

What was it?2 points

3.Which is the only cardinal

direction not represented in the

name of a United Nations member

state?2 points

4.In 2016, the LIGO project

announced what

astronomical

discovery, confirming

a prediction Einstein

made?2 points

5.In 1978, chess player

Nona Gaprindashvili

became the first woman

to attain what title?

1 point

6.The Oxford

Dictionaries Word of the

Year for 2015 was actually an emoji.

Which one?2 points

7.What’s the middle name of

architect Frank Wright, British

prime minister David George and

composer Andrew Webber?1 point

8.What was the last Chinese imper-

ial dynasty, ruling from 1644 until

it was replaced by the Republic of

China in 1912?2 points

9.The award-winning Helix Bridge

resembles a DNA helix and was built

in what city’s Marina Bay area?

1 point

10.The hair of the

Bactrian variety of

which animal is used

to make luxury coats?

2 points

11.The code for the

airport serving Mumbai

is BOM. That’s because

the city used to be

officially named what?

1 point

16 -20 Gold medal 11-15Silver medal 6-10 Bronze medal 0-5 Wooden spoon

12.A diamond may be

forever, but how many

years do you have to

be married before

you celebrate your

diamond anniversary?

2 points

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