Stars tested on Aussie trivia and force-fed Vegemite

JOHN Travolta, Julie Bishop and Jai Courtney were just some of the stars we put to the test on the G’Day USA red carpet.

CELEBRITIES are used to being fawned over on red carpets … so we decided to shake things up a bit.

As some of the country’s biggest stars walked the red carpet at the G’Day USA Black Tie Gala at the Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles, we challenged them to a game.

Answer an Australian-themed trivia question correctly and they could continue on their merry way. Get it wrong and they had to down a spoonful of Vegemite.

Some of the stars, including all-round nice guy Jai Courtney and Julie Bishop, seemed genuinely delighted by the fact they got their questions wrong and smashed spoonfuls of Vegemite with gusto.

‘That is like nectar’ said Julie Bishop.

Others including Joe Hockey and Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan, well, they weren’t so keen.

Some of the other guests who attended the event that honours high profile Aussies for their contribution to strengthening the US-Australia relationship included: Qantas Ambassador-at-large John Travolta, Ben Mendelsohn, Baz Luhrmann, Daniel MacPherson, Luke Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban.

Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman stole the show.

Costume designer and four-time Oscar winner, Catherine Martin, received the G’Day USA Lifetime Achievement Award which was presented to her by her Moulin Rouge buddy, Nicole Kidman.

Catherine Martin (L) seen here with her daughter Lillian Luhrmann and husband Baz Luhrmann was honoured with a lifetime achievement award.

Ben Mendelsohn, who recently starred in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, was also honoured on the night, receiving the G’Day USA Excellence in Film and Television Award.

If you’d like to have stab the trivia yourself, here are the questions (the answers are further down below):

1. Which actress played the character, Muriel Heslop?

2. Strictly Ballroom came out in 1989, 1992 or 1994?

3. In The Castle, what is the first name of Darryl Kerrigan’s lawyer?

4. Which soap has been running longer, Home and Away or Neighbours?

5. Who won consecutive Gold Logies from 1997 to 2000?

6. Who was the Australian Prime Minister in 1992?

7. Nicole Kidman won an Oscar for her role in which 2002 movie?

8. How old is Bert Newton — 73, 75 or 78?

9. Who played Juliet in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet?

10. Which Scottish born Aussie rocker’s real name is James Dixon Swan?

11. How many Crocodile Dundee movies are there?

12. “Say hi to your mum for me” was a catchphrase made popular by which Aussie comedian and TV host?

13. Which singer won her first of four Grammy Awards in 1973 for her song, Let Me Be There?

14. Who won a Gold medal for Australia at the Sydney Olympics in the 400m run?

AND, HERE ARE THE ANSWERS

1. Which actress played the character, Muriel Heslop?

Toni Collette

2. Strictly Ballroom came out in 1989, 1992 or 1994?

1992

3. In The Castle, what is the first name of Darryl Kerrigan’s lawyer?

Dennis Denuto

4. Which soap has been running longer, Home and Away or Neighbours?

Neighbours

5. Who won consecutive Gold Logies from 1997 to 2000?

Lisa McCune

6. Who was the Australian Prime Minister in 1992?

Paul Keating

7. Nicole Kidman won an Oscar for her role in which 2002 movie?

The Hours

8. How old is Bert Newton — 73, 75 or 78?

78

9. Who played Juliet in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet?

Claire Danes

10. Which Scottish born Aussie rocker’s real name is James Dixon Swan?

Jimmy Barnes

11. How many Crocodile Dundee movies are there?

3

12. “Say hi to your mum for me” was a catchphrase made popular by which Aussie comedian and TV host?

Rove McManus

13. Which singer won her first of four Grammy Awards in 1973 for her song, Let Me Be There?

Olivia Newton John

14. Who won a Gold medal for Australia at the Sydney Olympics in the 400m run?

Cathy Freeman

This writer was a guest of Qantas and G’Day USA.

Originally published as Stars tested on Aussie trivia and force-fed Vegemite