smh quiz 4th apr answers and questions

1. On mobiles, what does AMP stand for?

2. Mark Ruffalo plays crusading US lawyer Robert Bilott in which 2020 film?

3. What does a javelina most closely resemble: a wild boar, a sheep or an aardvark?

4. Which region of Ireland is still part of the UK?

5. In philosophy, Buridan’s ass has to choose between hay and … what?

6. In geometry, which shape has an infinite number of sides: an apeirogon, decagon or a nonagon?

7. Does the US First Amendment relate to free speech, gun rights or voting rights?

8. What is the world’s southernmost national capital city?

9. How many states does the Sturt Highway pass through?

10. What is the name of Radiohead’s third album, released in 1997?

11. Which parasite transmits Lyme disease?

12. Surgeon Fiona Wood invented which medical technology?

13. Name the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth.

14. Which contact team sport awards the Stanley Cup?

15. Marie Curie was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize for discovering polonium and what other element?

16. Prior to 2020, how many times have the Summer Olympics been cancelled?

17. Entomophagy is the practice of eating … what?

18. What is India’s national flower?

19. “All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz” is a line from which novel?

20. What letter represents 500 in Roman numerals?

21. In Tom and Jerry cartoons, what animals are the title characters?

22. How many strings does the erhu, or Chinese fiddle, have?

23. Decapods are a species of what animal group starting with “C”?

24. Ingvar Kamprad founded which business in 1943?

25. In which Tasmanian town is the Big Penguin statue located?

Answers
1 Accelerated Mobile Pages. 2 Dark Waters. 3 Wild boar. 4 Northern Ireland. 5 Water. 6 Apeirogon. 7 Free speech. 8 Wellington, NZ (at a latitude of 41° 17’ south). 9 Three (NSW, Vic, SA). 10 OK Computer. 11 A tick. 12 Spray-on skin. 13 Sputnik 1 (1957). 14 Ice hockey (in North America’s National Hockey League). 15 Radium. 16 Three (1916 in Berlin, 1940 in Tokyo and 1944 in London). 17 Insects. 18 Lotus. 19 Heart of Darkness (1902, by Joseph Conrad). 20 D. 21 Tom is a cat, and Jerry is a mouse. 22 Two. 23 Crustacean. 24 IKEA. 25 Penguin.