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Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik at their wedding in Copenhagen ... but which year was this?

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question: What colour is the Star of David on the flag of Israel?

option: Blue

answer: 1

question: How many Test cricket matches did Sachin Tendulkar play for India?

option: 200

answer: 1

question: What breed of dog is Santa’s Little Helper in the animated television situation comedy series The Simpsons?

option: Greyhound

answer: 1

question: Name the famous English diarist who died in 1703.

option: Samuel Pepys

answer: 1

question: By area, what is Canada’s largest island?

option: Baffin Island

answer: 1

question: In which year did Denmark’s Crown Prince Frederik and Tasmanian-born Mary Donaldson marry?

option: 2004

answer: 1

question: French Guiana has a coastline on which ocean?

option: Atlantic

answer: 1

question: What does nursery rhyme character Georgie Porgie do to the girls to make them cry?

option: Kiss

answer: 1

question: Phoenix is the capital of which American state?

option: Arizona

answer: 1

question: Vitruvian Man is a 15th-century drawing by which Italian artist?

option: Leonardo da Vinci

answer: 1

question: In the Mesozoic Era, which period immediately follows the Triassic?

option: Jurassic

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the third to last zodiac sign?

option: Scorpio

answer: 1

question: US jazz musician Art Blakey was best known for playing which instrument?

option: Drums

answer: 1

question:By population, what is the largest town on Kangaroo Island?

option: Kingscote

answer: 1

question: What nationality was Walter Burley Griffin, the architect who designed Canberra?

option: American

answer: 1

question: Beginning with V, what is a female fox called?

option: Vixen

answer: 1

question: Who was the Roman goddess of the dawn?

option: Aurora

answer: 1

question: What was the first name of Lord Farquaad in the 2001 animated comedy film Shrek?

option: Maximus

answer: 1

question: In the 1950s children’s television series The Mickey Mouse Club, what day of the week was Anything Can Happen Day?

option: Wednesday

answer: 1

question: Which Christmas reindeer has a “very shiny nose”?

option: Rudolph

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1951 science-fiction book The Day of the Triffids?

option: John Wyndham

answer: 1

question: Caerphilly cheese is made from the milk of which animal?

option: Cow

answer: 1

question: Who rode Fiorente to victory in the 2013 Melbourne Cup?

option: Damien Oliver

answer: 1

question: Tanks were first used in which war?

option: World War I

answer: 1

question: What is the Queen’s favourite breed of dog?

option: Corgi

answer: 1

question: In the animated film Madagascar, what kind of animal is Alex?

option: Lion

answer: 1

question: Callisto is a moon of which planet?

option: Jupiter

answer: 1

question: In which year did the French Revolution begin?

option: 1789

answer: 1

question: Who was the England cricket captain when Australia won 5-0 in the 2006-07 Ashes series?

option: Andrew Flintoff

answer: 1

question: Which metal did the Incas call the “sweat of the sun”?

option: Gold

answer: 1

question: Who played Butch Cassidy in the 1969 US western film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

option: Paul Newman

answer: 1

question: What does the computer acronym GIF stand for?

option: Graphics interchange format

answer: 1

question: In Greek mythology, who was the father of Hermes?

option: Zeus

answer: 1

question: Which yacht won line honours in the 2021 Sydney to Hobart?

option: Black Jack

answer: 1

question: Which letter is immediately to the left of S on a standard keyboard?

option: A

answer: 1

question: Name the missing word in this old Coca-Cola slogan: Things Go ... with Coke.

option: Better

answer: 1

question: Graphite is an allotrope of which chemical element?

option: Carbon

answer: 1

question: What colour is Sesame Street character Oscar the Grouch?

option: Green

answer: 1

question: Clint Eastwood won Best Actor Oscar for which 1992 film?

option: Unforgiven

answer: 1

question: What does the acronym ICAC stand for?

option: Independent Commission Against Corruption (or Independent Commissioner Against Corruption)

answer: 1

question: The names of which two of Walt Disney’s seven dwarfs don’t end with Y?

option: Doc, Bashful

answer: 1

question: What is 75 per cent of 7500?

option: 5625

answer: 1

question: Who is credited with coining the term “lateral thinking” in 1967?

option: Edward de Bono

answer: 1

question: PYG is the currency code of which country?

option: Paraguay

answer: 1

question: Which fruit juice is traditionally used in a screwdriver cocktail?

option: Orange

answer: 1

question: What is the prime number closest to 1000?

option: 997

answer: 1

question: How many US astronauts have walked on the moon?

option: 12

answer: 1

question: Which US city is mentioned twice in the Elvis Presley hit In the Ghetto?

option: Chicago

answer: 1

question: What are the Roman numerals for 60?

option: LX

answer: 1

question: Which Russian city hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics?

option: Sochi

answer: 1