Weekend Quiz: 20 Fun Questions to Test Your Brain

Friday Challenge

Questions

1 Who was South Africa’s second democratically elected president?

2 What do you call a person who has difficulty sleeping?

3 What is the boiling point of water?

4 If the family of dogs is canine, what are felines?

5 In which province would you find the majestic Augrabies Falls?

6 What is the capital of Zimbabwe?

7 What is the biggest denomination of money in use in South Africa?

8 What is the holy book of Islam called?

9 Bafana Bafana recently qualified for which global football competition?

10 What is a group of flamingos is called?

11 On average a person walks the equivalent of how times around the world in their lifetime?

12 What gas do plants breathe in that humans breathe out?

13 What is the longest and strongest bone in the human body?

14 What do cows drink?

15 How many colours are there in a rainbow?

16 Which planet has rings around it?

17 What animal sleeps upside down?

18 What fruit keeps the doctor away, according to the saying?

19 What colour do you get when you mix red and blue?

20 Which insect can lift over 50 times its own weight?

Answers

1 Thabo Mbheki. 2 An insomniac. 3 100ºC. 4 Cats (domestic and wild, like cheetahs, leopard, tigers etc). 5 Northern Cape. 6 Harare. 7 The R200 note. 8 Qur’an. 9 The 2026 World Cup. 10 A ‘flamboyance’. 11 Three times. 12 Carbon dioxide. 13 The femur in the thigh, running from the hip joint down to the knee joint. 14 Water. 15 Seven. 16 Seven. 17 The bat. 18 An apple. 19 Purple. 20 An ant.

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