2019-03-01ReadersDigest_AUNZ

138 | March• 2019

TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Trivia

BRAIN POWER

True.4. Heroin.3. The sperm whale.2. Venice.1. ANSWERS:

Stephen King.9. Miners.8. Asbestos.7. Alion.6. Destiny’s Child.5.

The ribs. 13. A chimney.12. Johannes Vermeer.11. England’s Queen Victoria.10.

Amyotrophiclateral sclerosis (ALS).14.

1.Which Italian city ran a republic

that lasted from 697 to 1797 CE?

2points

2.What’s the largest animal species

alive today that has teeth?2points

3.Methadone is considered a safer

replacement for what harmful drug?

1point

4.On your bank statement the debit

column refers to what you have

spent. True or false?1point

5.In what band did Beyoncé sing

before becoming a solo act?1point

6.In 2015, a tourist created

an international uproar when

he shot Cecil in Zimbabwe.

What was Cecil?1point

7.A type of cancer

called mesothelioma is

nearly always caused by

exposure to what

substance?2points

8.What is the job of

the seven dwarfs in the

1937 Disney filmSnow White and

the Seven Dwarfs?1point

9.What horror novelist dedicated

his bookThe Dark Halfto “the late

Richard Bachman”, in honour of a

recently exposed pen name he’d

been using?2points

10.Who was called the “grandmother

of Europe” because her nine children

and 42 grandchildren married into

royal houses all over the continent?

1point

11. What Dutch artist painted –
    among other things – an
    astronomer and a girl with a
    pearl earring?2points

12.In architecture, what is the

term for a vertical structure

that provides ventilation

for a building?1point

13.The bones around

your chest that protect

organs such as the heart

are called what?1point

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

14.Money raised through

an ice-bucket challenge

helped scientists discover a

gene that might be

connected with what

disease?2 points

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