Reader\'s Digest Australia & New Zealand - June 2018

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BRAIN POWER

TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Trivia

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

Charles Lindbergh.5. The brain.4.. Frozen3. The Netherlands.2. On the moon.ANSWERS: 1.

 The giant 12.  Lego blocks.11.  Anne Frank.10. Twitter.9. Singapore.8. Saudi Arabia.7. A bird.6.

 The casino-hotel.14. New Zealand.13. panda.

1.In1971,AlanShepardstruckagolf
ball that went for “miles and miles
andmiles”.Wherewashe?1point

2.he orange carrot that we are
familiar with today was irst bred in
whichEuropeancountry?1point

3.What movie’s soundtrack was the
bestselling album worldwide in 2014?
1point

4.Whichorganmakesuponlytwo
percentofyourbody’sweightbut
requires around a ifth of its energ y?
1point

5.Whowastheirstpersonto
ly solo non-stop across the
Atlantic?1point

6.What type of animal is
adrongo?1point

7.Which country’s
Qassim University
hosteda2012
conference about
womeninsociety–
with no women in
attendance?2 points

8.Which country issued a

rectangularcoinin2010tomarkits

45 years of independence?2points

9.What website redesigned

itslogoin2012tolooklikea

“mountainbluebirdwitha dash of

hummingbird”?1point

10.Whoturnedouttobewrong

whenshepredicted,“Lateron,

neither I nor anyone else will be

interested in the musings of a

13-year-old schoolgirl”?2points

11.he Brick Testament is a website

that illustrates the Bible in what

unusual medium?2points

12.What animal’s

scientiic name,

Ailuropoda

melanoleuca,means

“black-and-white

cat-foot?”2points

13.Which was

the last habitable

land mass to be

populated?1 point

14.Which structure was

erected closer to the time of

Cleopatra: the Great Pyramid

of Giza or the pyramid-

shaped Luxor casino-hotel

in Las Vegas?2points