Author Biography: Wizzid

This quiz features some of the more common and amusing expressions that are used to imply dim-wittedness. If you're "not all there", you should be here.

Each question here will present you with a short list of creatures, and your task is to pick the single country which all of them call home. Be warned, these lists have been devised to avoid the obvious and include the ambiguous and surprising.

Some familiar-sounding sleuths are about to investigate the mysterious deaths that can occur in tropical fish tanks. This quiz may help budding enthusiasts to solve or prevent common cases of aquarium "fishicide".

We all know the names of common elements such as oxygen, iron, calcium, etc, but the periodic table also contains many names that are far less familiar. Your task in this quiz is to pick the real element from the fictitious ones. Recommended for grades: 9,10,11

Join tourist Mal Aprop as he travels the globe and misnames numerous geographical features. Perhaps you can point out his humorous errors.

Much has been written about the important people in the Bible, but here is a quiz about the creatures that played significant Biblical cameo roles. References are from the KJV Bible.

Australian history is full of amusing bloopers, terrible blunders, and costly mistakes. See if you can get through this quiz without making too many of them yourself.

If you have time, you may wish to try this quiz about works of fiction which involve time travel. Fittingly, our own journey through the history of this branch of science fiction literature will be taken in chronological order.

Some very famous actors have appeared in films which failed to give them a credit for their performance. Let's see if you can give them their dues.

Rowan Atkinson's 'Blackadder' television comedies were frequently loose with their interpretation of the historical record. This quiz will review what really happened in history and test your knowledge of 'Blackadder' at the same time.

Here you must identify colours associated with two different movies, then mix them together and name the resulting colour. Even if you know only one of the movies in each question, a knowledge of colours may give you the answer.

Tragedy! All the famous TV and movie extraterrestrials that are familiar to Earthlings were en route to a convention when their spaceship crashed. The Galactic Coroner must now identify them from their remains. Can you help him?

The great dessert chefs of the world had gathered in competition, but fierce rivalry soon saw their creations decorating faces instead of plates. Can you identify their desserts from the ingredients that are plastered all over the combatants?

Some Australians are quite partial to a drink or two (or three, or ...). That might explain the many reports of weird phenomena Down Under. Then again, it might not.

The name of this quiz says it all. Here are some of the most bizarre, ridiculous, and politically incorrect film titles of all time. Your utterly outrageous challenge is to pick the real movies from the entirely bogus ones.

I think you'll say that even a ventriloquist's dummy could do reasonably well in this quiz, but I don't want to put words in your mouth.

Misadventures, misdemeanors, and mistakes. This quiz presents some weird and not-so-wonderful facts about Australian Prime Ministers.

There may not be any good ways to go, but there are certainly some entertaining ones. This quiz features some of the more unusual ways that movie characters have met their maker.

If you took a number of something, added it to a number of something else, then subtracted the number of another thing, you'd end up with the number of what? Confusing? It's not as hard as it sounds. Or is it?

Although it's really nothing to laugh about, the act of vomiting has inspired some highly amusing euphemisms. Try to test your knowledge of them without "growling in the grass" yourself.

First identify the colours in the titles of two different songs, then mix them together and name the resulting colour. In this kind of quiz, knowing just one of the songs in each question may be enough.