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question: What nationality was Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad?

option: Swedish

answer: 1

question: Chile has a coastline on which ocean?

option: Pacific

answer: 1

question: Name the only American state that begins and ends with the letter O.

option: Ohio

answer: 1

question: Name the 1982 film which was adapted from US science-fiction author Philip K. Dick’s book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

option: Blade Runner

answer: 1

question: Which country owns the Mediterranean island of Crete?

option: Greece

answer: 1

question: In which year was the augmented reality mobile game Pokemon Go released in Australia?

option: 2016

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the snail in the Australian children’s television series Mr Squiggle?

option: Gus

answer: 1

question: What is the name of former US president Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida?

option: Mar-a-Lago

answer: 1

question: How many is a dozen plus nine?

option: 21

answer: 1

question: What is the third line of the most common version of the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty?

option: “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men”

answer: 1

question: In which US city did The Beatles perform their final paid concert in 1966?

option: San Francisco

answer: 1

question: The Great Blue Hole is a giant marine sinkhole off the coast of which Central American country?

option: Belize

answer: 1

question: The maple leaf on the national flag of Canada has how many points?

option: 11

answer: 1

question: What type of fruit is a greengage?

option: Plum

answer: 1

question: US professional boxer Rocky Marciano was a champion in which weight division?

option: Heavyweight

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, what is thicker than water?

option: Blood

answer: 1

question: In the song American Pie by Don McLean, from whom does the jester borrow a coat?

option: James Dean

answer: 1

question: Subtract 1234 from 5678.

option: 4444

answer: 1

question: Clove hitch, sheet bend, bowline and back splice are all types of what?

option: Knots

answer: 1

question: US actor Stockard Channing played Betty Rizzo in which 1978 film?

option: Grease

answer: 1

question: Which ingredient is added to chocolate to make ganache?

option: Cream

answer: 1

question: Which three-letter word completes the following three longer words: c---s, s---pery, ec---se?

option: Lip (clips, slippery, eclipse)

answer: 1

question: What were the surnames of US folk group Peter, Paul and Mary?

option: Yarrow (Peter), Stookey (Paul), Travers (Mary)

answer: 1

question: “To be, or not to be, that is the question” is a famous line from which play by William Shakespeare?

option: Hamlet

answer: 1

question: What is the last prime number before 1000?

option: 997

answer: 1

question: In which year did John Howard become Australia’s 25th prime minister?

option: 1996

answer: 1

question: What do the letters YMCA stand for?

option: Young Men’s Christian Association

answer: 1

question: Which US author wrote the 1959 science-fiction book Starship Troopers?

option: Robert A. Heinlein

answer: 1

question: What is the main ingredient of guacamole?

option: Avocado

answer: 1

question: What was the last of the nine films in which US actors Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy starred together?

option: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

answer: 1

question: What is the name of the magic pudding in the children’s book The Magic Pudding?

option: Albert

answer: 1

question: What kind of animal is Pumbaa in Disney’s The Lion King?

option: Warthog

answer: 1

question: For what are Cuisenaire rods normally used?

option: Teaching arithmetic to children

answer: 1

question: In which year was the inaugural AFLW season?

option: 2017

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the first colour worn by The Wiggles?

option: Blue

answer: 1

question: The Cagayan is the longest river in which Asian country?

option: The Philippines

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Bahrain?

option: Bahraini dinar

answer: 1

question: Who played the title role in the 1970 film Ned Kelly?

option: Mick Jagger

answer: 1

question: Name the three Robinson children in the 1960s science-fiction television series Lost in Space.

option: Judy, Penny, Will

answer: 1

question: Which Scottish crime writer created the character Inspector Rebus?

option: Ian Rankin

answer: 1

question: Gujarat is which country’s westernmost state?

option: India’s

answer: 1

question: Name the restaurant where SpongeBob SquarePants works.

option: Krusty Krab

answer: 1

question: Who drove the Turbo Terrific in the animated television series Wacky Races?

option: Peter Perfect

answer: 1

question: In which year was Hound Dog by Elvis Presley first released?

option: 1956

answer: 1

question: How many times did VFL player Bob Skilton win the Brownlow Medal?

option: Three (1959, 1963, 1968)

answer: 1

question: By area, what is Africa’s largest country?

option: Algeria

answer: 1

question: Who was runner-up in the first season of Australian Idol in 2003?

option: Shannon Noll

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name an Adelaide suburb: LAIMGL.

option: Magill

answer: 1

question: How many Oscars did the film Titanic win?

option: 11

answer: 1

question: What is the chemical symbol for cobalt?

option: Co

answer: 1