Test your brain: Are your too clever by far?

Friday challenge: September 5

Questions

1 Which South African sporting team is currently competing in a world cup?

2 What is the capital of Lesotho?

3 What is the only planet in our solar system that spins clockwise?

4 Which famous scientist developed the theory of general relativity?

5 Which country invented paper?

6 How many bones are in the adult human body?

7 What is the rarest blood type?

8 Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?

9 What is South Africa’s national animal?

10 What is the highest mountain in South Africa?

11 Who wrote the book, Cry, the Beloved Country?

12 Which oceans meet between Cape Agulhas and Cape Point?

13 The largest ethnic group in South Africa is?

14 What is the national animal of Scotland.

15 In which New Zealand city are the Springboks playing the All Blacks tomorrow?

16 What does the name Soweto mean?

17 The world’s highest paid footballer is?

18 What is the fear of spiders called?

19 How many kilograms in a ton?

20 What are pheromones?

Answers

1 The South African women’s rugby team. 2 Maseru. 3 Venus. 4 Albert Einstein. 5 China. 6 206. 7 AB negative. 8 William Shakespeare. 9 The springbok. 10 Mafadi (3 450m). 11 Alan Paton. 12 The Indian and Atlantic oceans. 13 The Zulu. 14 The unicorn. 15 Auckland. 16 South-Western Townships. 17 Cristiano Ronaldo ($285 million in projected total earnings for 2025). 18 Arachnophobia (intense, irrational fear of spiders and other arachnids, such as scorpions). 19 Approximately 1 000 (it can vary slightly by country). 20 Chemical signals secreted by one organism that trigger a social or behavioural response in another organism of the same species.

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