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question: What nationality is former tennis champion Bjorn Borg?

option: Swedish

answer: 1

question: German-born British astronomer William Herschel is credited with discovering which planet in 1781?

option: Uranus

answer: 1

question: In which year did Elvis Presley buy Graceland, his home in Memphis, Tennessee: 1957, 1962 or 1967?

option: 1957

answer: 1

question: What is the 19th letter of the English alphabet?

option: S

answer: 1

question: Which 15th-century Italian artist painted The Birth of Venus?

option: Botticelli

answer: 1

question: Who played the title role in the 1953 film Calamity Jane?

option: Doris Day

answer: 1

question: Which familiar sound is also the name of a mountain nymph in Greek mythology?

option: Echo

answer: 1

question: What is graphology?

option: Study of handwriting, for character analysis

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name a two-word Adelaide suburb: PUYEAKLDDR.

option: Dudley Park

answer: 1

question: Who played Susan Kennedy in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours?

option: Jackie Woodburne

answer: 1

question: Who is the captain of AFLW team Adelaide?

option: Chelsea Randall

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1995 book The Horse Whisperer?

option: Nicholas Evans

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the building from which Lee Harvey Oswald was said to have assassinated US president John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963?

option: Texas School Book Depository (Dallas County Administration Building)

answer: 1

question: Which current affairs program premiered on the Nine Network on November 22, 1971?

option: A Current Affair

answer: 1

question: The line “Nobody puts Baby in a corner” comes from which 1987 film?

option: Dirty Dancing

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the first chemical element?

option: Actinium

answer: 1

question: Who proposed for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?

option: Isaac Newton

answer: 1

question: Who replaced Tony Barber as host of the Australian television game show Sale of the Century in 1991?

option: Glenn Ridge

answer: 1

question: For what do the letters in the federal government’s law enforcement agency ACIC stand?

option: Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission

answer: 1

question: Name the country beginning with I that shares a land border with Saudi Arabia.

option: Iraq

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, what is a dish best served cold?

option: Revenge

answer: 1

question: What nationality was astrologer Nostradamus?

option: French

answer: 1

question: What is the three-letter code for London’s Heathrow Airport?

option: LHR

answer: 1

question: Which three colours are on the Australian flag?

option: Red, white, blue

answer: 1

question: Viola, Feste, Sebastian and Malvolio are characters in which play by William Shakespeare?

option: Twelfth Night

answer: 1

question: An icosagon has how many sides?

option: 20

answer: 1

question: What is US talk show host Dr Phil’s surname?

option: McGraw

answer: 1

question: What is the world’s highest mountain?

option: Mt Everest

answer: 1

question: Name the vertical groove between the nose and upper lip.

option: Philtrum

answer: 1

question: Which of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wears an orange bandana?

option: Michelangelo

answer: 1

question: In the song Piano Man by Billy Joel, what is the name of the “real estate novelist who never had time for a wife”?

option: Paul

answer: 1

question: Tont is the middle name of which US professional golfer?

option: Tiger Woods

answer: 1

question: By population, Aarhus is which country’s second-largest city?

option: Denmark’s

answer: 1

question: How many strings are on a standard bass guitar?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: In mathematics, what are the first two perfect numbers?

option: 6, 28

answer: 1

question: A game of snooker is played with how many balls?

option: 22

answer: 1

question: How many of Walt Disney’s Seven Dwarfs have beards?

option: Six (Dopey did not)

answer: 1

question: Name the five colours on the interlocking Olympic rings.

option: Red, black, yellow, green, blue

answer: 1

question: In the comic strip Peanuts, what colour is Linus Van Pelt’s security blanket?

option: Blue

answer: 1

question: Which creature is on the logo of the World Wildlife Fund?

option: Panda

answer: 1

question: Which team won Showdown 52 on August 20?

option: Port Adelaide

answer: 1

question: In the preschool animated television series Bluey, what breed of dog is Snickers?

option: Dachshund

answer: 1

question: Using their chemical symbols, what animal-related adjective can be made from iron, lithium and neon?

option: Feline (Fe-Li-Ne)

answer: 1

question: Bass Strait separates which two Australian states?

option: Victoria, Tasmania

answer: 1

question: Coptic Christians are native to which country?

option: Egypt

answer: 1

question: In which American state is Everglades National Park?

option: Florida

answer: 1

question: In which city was Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese born in 1963?

option: Sydney

answer: 1

question: In which year did television start in Australia?

option: 1956

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Spain?

option: Madrid

answer: 1

question: In which year will the next Summer Olympics be held?

option: 2024 (Paris

answer: 1