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question: What is the first musical mentioned in the 1989 Billy Joel hit We Didn’t Start the Fire?

option: South Pacific

answer: 1

question: In which Australian television comedy quiz program does the winner of each episode receive a Big Brass Mug?

option: Hard Quiz

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the Father Brown detective novels?

option: G. K Chesterton

answer: 1

question: Which planet do Abbott and Costello visit in the 1953 film Abbott and Costello Go to Mars?

option: Venus

answer: 1

question: The year 2021 is the Chinese year of the what?

option: Ox

answer: 1

question: Name the next chief executive of delivery company Toll Global Express.

option: Christine Holgate

answer: 1

question: According to a 1950s comic song, never smile at what kind of reptile?

option: Crocodile

answer: 1

question: What is the Roman numeral for 1000?

option: M

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name an Adelaide suburb – LAOULFRTN.

option: Fullarton

answer: 1

question: Dustin Martin plays for which AFL club?

option: Richmond

answer: 1

question: Who played Mark Hammond in the 1960s Australian television series Skippy?

option: Ken James

answer: 1

question: In which year was Twitter founded?

option: 2006

answer: 1

question: What is the least populated continent?

option: Antarctica

answer: 1

question: Which SANFL team is nicknamed the Double Blues?

option: Sturt

answer: 1

question: How many syllables are in the word “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”?

option: 14

answer: 1

question: “Oink” is the sound made by which animal?

option: Pig

answer: 1

question: Who composed the music for the ballet Swan Lake?

option: Tchaikovsky

answer: 1

question: A quartet is a group of how many people playing music or singing together?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: What is 30 per cent of 40?

option: 12

answer: 1

question: In which year did Home and Away begin on Australian television?

option: 1988

answer: 1

question: What is androphobia?

option: Fear of men

answer: 1

question: The Church at Auvers is a famous painting by which Dutch artist?

option: Vincent van Gogh

answer: 1

question: A standard piano has how many keys?

option: 88

answer: 1

question: Deli proprietor Aldo Godolfus (Johnny Lockwood) was a character in which Australian television soap opera?

option: Number 96

answer: 1

question: What sport do the Toronto Raptors play?

option: Basketball

answer: 1

question: Hot cross buns are traditionally served on which day of the year?

option: Good Friday

answer: 1

question: Which Italian volcano is nicknamed the “Lighthouse of the Mediterranean”?

option: Stromboli

answer: 1

question: What is the total number of sides on four triangles and four rectangles?

option: 28 (12, 16)

answer: 1

question: In which language does “au revoir” mean goodbye?

option: French

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the coffee shop in the US television situation comedy series Friends?

option: Central Perk

answer: 1

question: On the cover of the 1969 album Abbey Road, which Beatle is crossing the street in the third position?

option: Paul McCartney

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically by their stage names, who was the first of the five Marx Brothers?

option: Chico

answer: 1

question: Which is the smallest planet in our solar system?

option: Mercury

answer: 1

question: In a poem by Edward Lear, who go to sea “in a beautiful pea-green boat”?

option: The Owl & The Pussycat

answer: 1

question: How many times was US comedian Bob Hope married?

option: Twice

answer: 1

question: Who was the second wife of King Henry VIII of England?

option: Anne Boleyn

answer: 1

question: Who sang the 1961 hit Rubber Ball?

option: Bobby Vee

answer: 1

question: Who is the oldest living US president?

option: Jimmy Carter

answer: 1

question: How many degrees are in a circle?

option: 360

answer: 1

question: What is an antonym?

option: A word opposite in meaning to another

answer: 1

question: What does a myrmecologist study?

option: Ants

answer: 1

question: On which island is the Japanese capital of Tokyo?

option: Honshu

answer: 1

question: Which country was formerly called Siam?

option: Thailand

answer: 1

question: The brolga is the official bird of which Australian state?

option: Queensland

answer: 1

question: By area, what is the second largest Hawaiian island?

option: Maui

answer: 1

question: In the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence, who is eating bread and honey?

option: The Queen

answer: 1

question: How old is Australian television veteran Bert Newton?

option: 82

answer: 1

question: In which country is the Great Pyramid of Giza?

option: Egypt

answer: 1

question: Which month of the Islamic calendar is observed by Muslims as a time of fasting, prayer, reflection and community?

option: Ramadan

answer: 1

question: How many bones does a shark have in its body?

option: None

answer: 1