Equinox and Beethoven

Question 1

Which major European river flows through Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade?

Accepted Answer

Danube

Answer

Oder

Answer

Rhine

Answer

Elbe

Question 2

Which planet has the shortest year in our solar system?

Accepted Answer

Mercury

Answer

Mars

Answer

Venus

Answer

Earth

Question 3

In which country is the prehistoric passage tomb of Newgrange located?

Accepted Answer

Ireland

Answer

Denmark

Answer

United Kingdom

Answer

France

Question 4

Which actor played Count Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film?

Accepted Answer

Gary Oldman

Answer

Jeremy Irons

Answer

Anthony Hopkins

Answer

Alan Rickman

Question 5

On which island was Napoleon imprisoned after his defeat at Waterloo?

Accepted Answer

Saint Helena

Answer

Corsica

Answer

Elba

Answer

Sardinia

Question 6

Which Renaissance artist painted Primavera, showing mythological figures in an orange grove?

Accepted Answer

Sandro Botticelli

Answer

Titian

Answer

Raphael

Answer

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 7

Which gland releases melatonin to help regulate the body's sleep–wake cycle?

Accepted Answer

Pineal gland

Answer

Pituitary gland

Answer

Thyroid gland

Answer

Adrenal gland

Question 8

Which German writer's play was adapted into Rossini's opera William Tell?

Accepted Answer

Friedrich Schiller

Answer

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Answer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Answer

Heinrich von Kleist

Question 9

Which statesman represented Austria at the Congress of Vienna in 1814–1815?

Accepted Answer

Klemens von Metternich

Answer

Viscount Castlereagh

Answer

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Answer

Karl August von Hardenberg

Question 10

Which Australian marsupial is promoted as an alternative to the Easter bunny?

Accepted Answer

Bilby

Answer

Wallaby

Answer

Quokka

Answer

Wombat