ReadersDigestAustraliaNewZealand-March2018

138 | March• 2018

TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Trivia

BRAIN POWER

The5. ‘Down Under’, by Men at Work.4. Chinese gooseberry.3. Tatum O’Neal.2. Australia. ANSWERS: 1.

Three (Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Howard10. Matildas.9. February 29.8. Tripoli.7. Tia Maria.6. Danube.

Niccolò Machiavelli.15. In the upper arm.14. Indonesia.13. Elvis Presley.12. Ukraine.11. and Catherine Parr).

1.Which country’s 1900 Constitution

ActleftroomforaddingNewZealand

asamemberstateoneday?1point

2.In1973,whobecametheyoungest

Oscarwinnertodate?1point

3.What was the original name of

the kiwifruit?1point

4.In what 1980s hit does the

singerbuybreadfromamanin

Brussels who was “six-foot-four

andfullofmuscles”?1point

5.What is the only major

Europeanrivertowaltzits

wayfromwesttoeast?1point

6.Dr Kenneth Leigh Evans

purportedly used a 300-year-

old Jamaican recipe to

create what coffee liqueur?

1point

7.What’sthenameof

both the Libyan capital

and Lebanon’s second-

largest city?2points

8.Whichcalendardate

is the rarest birthday?1point

9 .WhatisthenameoftheAustralian

women’s soccer team?1point

10.OfthesixwivesofEngland’s

King Henry VIII, how many were

named Catherine?2points

11.In which country do the

similarly named Dnieper and

Dniester rivers reach the Black

Sea?2points

12.Which American ‘king’

posedforaphotowithUS

president Richard Nixon in

1970?1point

13.Measuringjustafew

millimetres,Paedocypris

progeneticamay be the

world’s tiniest fish species.

In which country could

youspotone,ifyouhave

good eyesight?2points

14.Whereinthehuman

body is the humerus

bone found?1 point

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

15.What

Renaissance political

thinker advised,

“Itisbettertobe

feared than loved, if

youcannotbeboth”?

2 points