ReadersDigestAustraliaNewZealand-April2018

130 | April• 2018

TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Trivia

BRAIN POWER

Nikita Khrushchev. 4.   Cubism. 3.  Brazil, which has ten neighbours. 2.  Basketball. 1. ANSWERS:

 Princess Diana. 10.  Ursa Major (the Great Bear). 9.  Sam Neill. 8.  Vermouth. 7.  Cambodia. 6.  The girafe. 5.

 Karol Józef Wojtyla, 14.  Jean-Claude Van Damme. 13.  Melbourne, Australia, in 1956. 12. . South China Sea. 11

who would later become John Paul II.

1. James Naismith presented
   the irst Olympic gold
   medal, in 1936, for the
   sport he invented. What
   was it? 2 points


2. Which South
   American nation shares
   its borders with the most
   number of countries?
   2 points
   3.Youmightsaythat
   Pablo Picasso and
   Georges Braque lost
   all perspective when
   theystartedwhatart
   movement in the early 1900s?1point
   4.When Soviet policy was mocked
   attheUnitedNationsin1960,who
   responded by banging his shoe on
   the table?2points
   5.Whichanimalfalls1.8metresto
   the ground the moment it is born?
   1point
   6.Whichcountry’slagportrays
   Angkor Wat, one of the world’s largest
   religious monuments?1point

7.When dry, this cocktail

ingredient goes into a

martini. When sweet, it

goes into a Manhattan.

What is it? 1 point

8. Which New Zealand
   actor, born in 1947,
   starred alongside Sean
   Connery inhe Hunt
   For Red October?
   2points
   9.Which astronomical
   constellation is oicially
   abbreviated as “UMa”?
   2points
   10.In1995,whotoldareporter
   there had been three people in her
   marriage, “so it was a bit crowded”?
   1point
   11.Whatbodyofwaterseparates
   Borneo and Singapore?2points
   12.What is the southernmost city
   ever to have hosted the Olympics?
   1point
   13.Which Belgian action-ilm star
   was once a karate champion?1point

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

14. Before entering
    the priesthood, which
    pope-to-be tried his
    hand at acting and
    playwriting? 1 point

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