THE AGE SUPERQUIZ

1 POINT EACH

1. Which hot capsicum sauce (an ingredient of a Bloody Mary cocktail) shares its name with a state of Mexico?

2. What was the first name of Cubist artist Picasso?

3. How many men did the Grand Old Duke of York march up and down the hill, according to the nursery rhyme?

4. Which "boy from Oz" did Liza Minnelli marry in 1967?

5. And which Australian actor won a Tony for portraying him in the stage musical The Boy from Oz?

INTERMEDIATE

2 POINTS EACH

6. How many pairs of chromosomes do normal human cells have?

7. Which railway was named for the Afghan cameleers who transported mail, goods and passengers across Central Australia?

8. Which US author is best known for his sci-fi works and the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451?

9. Where in the human body would you find the ulna: the liver, the arm or the brain?

10. The name for what type of canape comes from the French for "flight in the wind"?

ADVANCED

3 POINTS EACH

11. Vitamin B2 is also known as what, beginning with "R"?

12. Which Australian PM was the only one to have been in jail, as an anti-conscriptionist in 1916?

13. What is the name of Canada's national anthem?

14. Which English composer, conductor, violinist and pianist composed the opera Gloriana for Queen Elizabeth II's 1953 coronation?

15. Similar to the synecdoche, which figure of speech substitutes an attribute of something for the thing itself, for example, "the Crown" for a monarch?

ANSWERS 1: Tabasco 2: Pablo 3: Ten thousand 4: Peter Allen 5: Hugh Jackman 6: 23 7: The Ghan railway 8: Riboflavin 9: The arm 10: Vol au vent 11: Ray Bradbury 12: John Curtin 13: O Canada 14: Benjamin Britten 15: Metonym/metonymy