2018-10-01_Reader_s_Digest_AUNZ

134 | October• 2018

TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Trivia

BRAIN POWER

The woolly mammoth.5. Snow.4. Uganda.3. Alexander Graham Bell.2. Denmark. ANSWERS: 1.

Afly. 11.. Goodfellas10. Pangaea.9.). Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie Ille Pu8. Singapore Sling.7. Fraser Island.6.

By suicide.14. Wat.13. Theanswerisno.12.

1.Which European

country was governed by

two womenin mid-2010:

aqueenandaprime

minister?1point

2.heirst issue of

Reader’s Digest in 1922

featured anarticle

by what Scottish-born

inventor?2points

3.Most famous for

the raid on its airport,

Entebbe was which country’s

capital until 1962?2points

4.he Hawaiian deity Poli’ahu is

associatedwithaweatherphenom-

enon that rarely occurs in Hawaii

below its peaks. Which one?1point

5.BloodfromaSiberianspecimen

maycontainenoughDNAtoclone

what extinct animal?1point

6.Australia has the world’s largest

sandisland.Whatisitnamed?1point

7.Namethesignaturedrinkofthe

Rales Hotel in Singapore.1 point

8.he only Latin book

to crack heNew York

Timesbestseller list

wasa1960translation

of what A.A. Milne

classic?1point

9.What’sthenameof

thesupercontinentthat

once incorporated most

ofthelandon Earth?

2points

10.In what movie

did Joe Pesci

improviseascenebasedonareal

incident in which he told a mobster

he was funny?1point

11.PETA disapproved of Barack

Obama’s ‘execution’ of what creature

duringa2009TVinterview?2points

12.Accordingtotheadage

‘Betteridge’s law of headlines’, what

answer can you give to any headline

thatendsinaquestionmark?2 points

13.Put ‘Angkor’ before this

word and you have a Cambodian

temple.1 point

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

14.Abimelech; Samson;

King Saul; Saul’s armour

bearer; Ahithophel;

ZimriandJudasarethe

only biblicaligures to

die how?2 points