The Age Superquiz

The Age

Friday November 16, 2007

Compiled by Gennifer Ciavarra

BEGINNERS (1 point each)

1. What is the most common name for the larvae of a frog?

2. Katie is to Tom as Posh is to whom?

3. What is the capital city of India?

4. What, beginning with "t", is the name for someone who lives in a cave (and is also used to mean a slow or dim-witted person)?

5 In The Simpsons, what sort of animal is Chub-Chub?

INTERMEDIATE (2 points each)

6. If a creature is edentulous, what does it lack?

7. After the European part of Russia, what is the largest country in Europe?

8. Do hedgehogs and porcupines belong to the same order of mammals?

9. Which Welsh comedian and writer was the long-time comedy partner of English comedian and director Mel Smith?

10. What were the eldest sons and heirs to the throne of the kings of France called?

ADVANCED (3 points each)

11. Which chemical element, beginning with "s", is also known as eka-tungsten?

12. In what year did the Japanese Army invade and occupy Nanjing, the then capital of China, and begin carrying out the brutal Nanking Massacre?

13. What is the largest artificial lake in Australia?

14. And in which state is it?

15. What is the most populous island in the world?

ANSWERS

1: Tadpole 2: Becks (David Beckham) 3: New Delhi 4: Troglodyte 5: Iguana 6: Teeth 7: Ukraine 8: No 9: Griff Rhys Jones 10: Dauphin 11: Seaborgium 12: 1937 13: Lake Gordon/Lake Pedder 14: Tasmania 15: Java -- Compiled by Gennifer Ciavarra

AND FOR THE WEEKLY PRIZE...

In the 1953 film Genevieve, what make of car was Genevieve?

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