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question: In the 1967 film The Graduate, what name did Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) assume to book into the Taft Hotel to meet Mrs Robinson (Anne Baxter)?
option: Mr Gladstone
answer: 1
question: What is the official language of Denmark?
option: Danish
answer: 1
question: What does maniform mean?
option: Having the shape or form of a hand
answer: 1
question: Unscramble these letters to name
a two-word Adelaide suburb – RDDAAAEESSTHPMGN.
option: Hampstead Gardens
answer: 1
question: Which country is Australia’s largest trading partner?
option: China
answer: 1
question: Who composed the oratorio Elijah?
option: Felix Mendelssohn
answer: 1
question: How many American states begin with the letter P?
option: One (Pennsylvania)
answer: 1
question: Dublin, the capital of Ireland, is on the banks of which river?
option: Liffey
answer: 1
question: Who is South Australia’s Transport Minister?
option: Corey Wingard
answer: 1
question: By population, what is South Africa’s largest city?
option: Johannesburg
answer: 1
question: Add the number of sides on a dodecagon to the number of sides on an icosagon.
option: 32 (12 plus 20)
answer: 1
question: What is the penultimate month of the year?
option: November
answer: 1
question: What is the missing word in this palindrome: Do ... see God?
option: Geese
answer: 1
question: Who is No. 12 for AFL club Adelaide?
option: Daniel Talia
answer: 1
question: What is sericulture?
option: The cultivation of silkworms to produce silk
answer: 1
question: In a leap year, what is the 64th day of the year?
option: March 4
answer: 1
question: Which word is used in the US for the boot of a car?
option: Trunk
answer: 1
question: In which Australian television soap
opera did teenage surfer Alan Fisher (Simon Kay) die in 1988?
option: Home & Away
answer: 1
question: Arrange these letters in reverse alphabetical order: ORGANISED.
option: SRONIGEDA
answer: 1
question: The works of which Flemish artist include the 1433 painting commonly referred to as Man in a Red Turban?
option: Jan van Eyck
answer: 1
question: How many pairs of chromosomes does each human have?
option: 23
answer: 1
question: For which bus company did Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) work in the 1950s US situation comedy series The Honeymooners?
option: Gotham Bus Company
answer: 1
question: Who is Harry Potter’s godfather?
option: Sirius Black
answer: 1
question: How is the first name of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams pronounced?
option: Rafe
answer: 1
question: Proverbially, what is the mother of invention?
option: Necessity
answer: 1
question: Which instrument did Canadian jazz musician Maynard Ferguson play?
option: Trumpet
answer: 1
question: What is a group of owls called?
option: A parliament
answer: 1
question: The song Seventy-Six Trombones comes from which musical?
option: The Music Man
answer: 1
question: Who was Australia’s first Aboriginal senator?
option: Neville Bonner
answer: 1
question: Multiply 123 by 321.
option: 39,483
answer: 1
question: Which comic strip cat has a teddy bear called Pooky?
option: Garfield
answer: 1
question: Cataracts affect which part of the body?
option: Eyes
answer: 1
question: What are the two most abundant elements in the Earth’s crust?
option: Oxygen, silicon
answer: 1
question: Who sang Dum Dum, a No. 1 hit in Adelaide in 1961?
option: Brenda Lee
answer: 1
question: What colour is the top band on the flag of Russia?
option: White
answer: 1
question: The wife of which nursery rhyme character could eat no lean?
option: Jack Sprat
answer: 1
question: In a game of darts, a “baby ton” is a score of how many?
option: 95
answer: 1
question: Odisha is a state of which country?
option: India
answer: 1
question: After whom is the Australian state of Victoria named?
option: Queen Victoria
answer: 1
question: What was the codename of US Navy pilot Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) in the 1986 film Top Gun?
option: Maverick
answer: 1
question: Who was FIFA World Player of the Year in 1998, 2000 and 2003?
option: Zinedine Zidane
answer: 1
question: What type of rodent is the cartoon character Speedy Gonzales?
option: A mouse
answer: 1
question: In which city were the 1972 Summer Olympics held?
option: Munich
answer: 1
question: On which day of the week will September begin this year?
option: Tuesday
answer: 1
question: Alphabetically, what is the first of the six colours on a Rubik’s cube?
option: Blue
answer: 1
question: Which adjective can precede the words chocolate, dog and metal?
option: Hot
answer: 1
question: Hepatitis is an inflammatory condition of which organ?
option: The liver
answer: 1
question: How do Americans pronounce the letter Z?
option: Zee
answer: 1
question: Which Elvis Presley hit begins “We’re caught in a trap”?
option: Suspicious Minds
answer: 1
question: In which month is Father’s Day celebrated annually in Australia?
option: September
answer: 1