Start relaxing for the weekend early with this week’s Ken Behrens Quiz with bits and bobs on mythology, music and movies.
Take the quiz alone, find a friend or challenge your workmates – but don’t scroll down to the bottom and peek at the answers until you are all done.
- What building would you find at 15 Childers St, Canberra?
- What was invented first: the electric toaster or sliced bread?
- Which company makes the Koleos, Scenic and Megane models of car?
- Which movie from 2007 stars the following actors: Queen Latifah, Zac Efron, Christopher Walken, John Travolta, Amanda Bynes and Michelle Pfeiffer?
- What animal is Brummie, the mascot for the 2022 Commonwealth Games?
- Which is longer: an iPhone charging cable or the average human large intestine?
- Espadrille, moccasin and huarache are all types of what?
- What is removed during a cholecystectomy?
- In Greek mythology, who was the queen of the underworld and wife of Hades?
- What weapon is named from the French word for “pomegranate”?
- What does .GIF stand for, as in a moving image file on a computer?
- Which band did sisters Daniella, Este and Alana form in 2007?
- Eric Marlon Bishop is the real name of which actor, comedian, singer, writer and producer?
- On a radio, what do AM and FM stand for?
- In which video game would you find creepers, enderman and biomes?
- What does AIDS stand for?
- “Never made it as a wise man, I couldn’t cut it as a poor man stealing” is a lyric from which song?
- What is the name of the National Indigenous Australian Drag Competition?
- The inflation rate reached a record high this week, what is it?
- If you tell a blatant fib, is it a bald-faced lie or a bold-faced lie?
Answers:
- Canberra Street Theatre
- Toaster
- Renault
- Hairspray
- Bull
- Intestine
- Shoe
- Gallbladder
- Persephone
- Hand grenade
- Graphics Interchange Format
- HAIM
- Jamie Fox
- Amplitude Modulation and Frequency Modulation
- Minecraft
- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- ‘How you remind me’ by Nickelback
- Miss First Nations
- 6.1%
- Bald-face.
PS: Lake Burley Griffin was filled on 17 October 1964.