Who wants to be a Brainiac?

Scoring
1 mark - correct, no lifeline used
1/2 mark - correct, lifeline used
0 marks - incorrect
-1 mark - incorrect, lifeline used

 

Instructions
Choose an answer
If you do not know the answer click on the available lifeline
"Phone a friend" and "ask the audience" will take you to a site where you can find the answer
"50/50" - one 50 will take you to a site which will give you the right answer the other 50 will give you the wrong answer.
To check whether your answer is correct run your mouse over the text on the right-hand side of the screen.

 

Questions  

1) What is Australia's Floral Emblem?

Phone a friend

 


2) Who was the first human to walk in space? 

Ask the audience

 


3) What is the highest point in Australian territory?

50/50 Choose one of the 50s!

 


4) Which of these fruits grows from a herb?

Phone a friend

 


5)  Dawn Fraser won Olympic Gold for 100m freestyle in what years?

Ask the audience

 


6) Which African nation was founded by freed slaves?

50/50 Choose one of the 50s!

 


7) How many single chromosomes are there in a human cell?

Phone a friend

 


8) How many letters do Roman Numbers use?

Ask the audience

 


9) Which one of the Three Tenors is not Spanish?

50/50 Choose one of the 50s!

 


10) How many horses in each (outdoor) polo team?

Phone a friend

 


11) The Baht is the currency for which country?

Ask the audience

 


12) What is the largest desert in Australia?

50/50 Choose one of the 50s!

 


13) What is the name of the dog on the HMV label?

Phone a friend

 


14) How many limbs does a squid have?

Ask the audience

 


15) Who broke the 4 minute mile?

50/50 Choose one of the 50s!

 


16) In what year did Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone?

Phone a friend

 


 

17) What is the greatest ocean depth at the Mariana Trench?

Ask the audience

 


18) Which king of England abdicated his throne to marry Wallace Simpson?

50/50 Choose one of the 50s!

 


19) Which Apollo mission was the first to land on the moon?

 Phone a friend

 


20) In Braille what letter is three vertical dots?

Ask the audience

 


Ratings
18+ super brainiac
15+ brainiac
10+ lesser brainiac
5+ a lesser brain
0-6 a pinky

Some ideas and questions adapted from Bob's Big Internet Trivia by Robert G. Eldridge

Others questions adapted Australian Trivia Quiz

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