THE NAKED CITY HOLIDAY QUIZ

It’s that time of the year when newspapers like the Sydney Morning Herald and assorted websites trot out their summer holiday quizzes, testing your general knowledge on a range of subjects from history to sport and entertainment. You have to wonder who actually has enough time on their hands these days to complete these quizzes, especially in an era of information overload.

Nevertheless that’s not stopped The Naked City from putting together this absorbing set of trivia questions to kill twenty minutes of your Christmas break. The answers are below – no peeking until you are finished.

Score more than eighty per cent correct and you should be filling out an application form to Mensa.

1. What colour were the cats that once lived on the top of the south east pylon of the Sydney Harbour Bridge?
2. Which of the following artists once recorded a cover version of Joe Dolce’s ‘Shaddap You Face’ (a) Bobby Crush (b) Ted Nugent (c) Celine Dion
3. Are cigarette shaped sweets, once marketed heavily at children, still for sale in Australia?
4. The adulterous King Charles referred to the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People’s Republic of China in 1997 as Chinese what?
5. A popular urban legend still claims that the Star Amphitheatre, constructed at Balmoral Beach in the early 1920s, was built for: (a) A book launch for D.H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo (b) A poetry reading by Banjo Patterson (c) The Second Coming Of Christ
6. Who painted Gainsborough’s Blue Boy?
7. True or false – Klaus Barbie invented the Barbie doll?
8. Why was Donald Trump so upset when Melania took colouring books from the White House to distribute to sick children in hospital?
9. Which Australian politician unintentionally enriched the metaphor by referring to “the white elephant in the room”?
10. Charles Darwin was president of what club at Cambridge University? (a) Croquet (b) Glutton (c) Backgammon
11. American playwright Tennessee Williams choked to death on what? (a) A Twinkie (b) A slice of peperroni pizza (c) A plastic bottle cap
12. American dentist Alfred Porter Southwick is credited with inventing what? (a) False teeth (b) The Electric Chair (c) Edible underwear
13. Napoleon’s troops ate their dead horses, seasoning them with: (a) Tabasco Sauce (b) Gunpowder (c) Crushed ants
14. In his latter years Chairman Mao Zedong’s teeth turned what colour?
15. In Australia slang, a “bush oyster” oozes from what part of the body?
16. The first so called “bodgie gang” in Australia (in the late 1940s) were known as (a) The Woolloomooloo Yanks (b) The Darlinghurst Dipsticks (c) The Kings Cross Cruncher

17. Following his replacement as PM, Tony Abbott, in a somewhat symbolic act, bought what on Gumtree? (a) A large portrait of the Duke of Edingburgh (b) A $300 beer fridge (c) A second hand confessional booth
18. Which now deceased Australian popstar appropriated the name of a famous literary figure?
19. Texas based plastic surgeon Dr Robert Ersek once performed what on himself on live TV? (a) Liposuction (b) A phalloplasty (c) A frontal lobotomy

And finally:

20. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

ANSWERS

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1. White.
2. The UK’s Bobby Crush.
3. Yes but they cannot be labelled cigarettes and must be called ‘candy’ or similar.
4. Chinese Takeaway.
5. Second Coming Of Christ.
6. Gainsborough (deduct a point if you answered Pro Hart).
7. False – Klaus Barbie was a notorious Nazi known as ‘the butcher of Lyon’.
8. Trump had not finished colouring them in.
9. Pauline Hanson.
10. Glutton (he once ate an owl).
11. A plastic bottle cap.
12. The electric chair.
13. Gunpowder.
14. Green.
15. The nose.
16. The Kings Cross Crunchers.
17. A beer fridge.
18. William Shapespeare.
19. Liposuction.
20. It’s considered somewhat of a philosophical discussion but most scientists say YES – start an argument, if you like, by saying ‘NO’.