10 quiz questions to kick off your week – Scroll to the bottom for the answers

  1. Which actor won consecutive Oscars for the films Philadelphia and Forrest Gump?
  2. What is the world’s smallest bird?
  3. Scurvy is a disease resulting from the lack of which vitamin?
  4. In traditional occupations what did a Cooper make?
  5. How many players are there in a Water Polo team. 5, 7 or 10?
  6. Mark Todd won 2 Olympic gold medals in equestrian’s individual three day event. What was the name of the horse he rode?
  7. What is the capital of Portugal?
  8. What were the British Empire Games renamed to in 1978?
  9. Which artist created Campbell’s Soup Cans in 1962?
  10. New Zealand lies on the boundary of which two tectonic plates?

Answers:

  1. Tom Hanks
  2. Hummingbird (Bee Hummingbird)
  3. Vitamin C
  4. Barrels
  5. 7
  6. Charisma
  7. Lisbon
  8. The Commonwealth Games
  9. Andy Warhol
  10. The Australian and Pacific plates