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question: Who painted the Mona Lisa?

option: Leonardo da Vinci

answer: 1

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

option: Cow

answer: 1

question: Which cross between a raspberry and a blackberry was accidentally created in California in 1881?

option: Loganberry

answer: 1

question: Which two gases are most common in stars?

option: Hydrogen, helium

answer: 1

question: “Plates of meat” is cockney rhyming slang for which part of the body?

option: Feet

answer: 1

question: How old is Australian Test cricketer Steve Smith?

option: 31

answer: 1

question: Suleiman the Magnificent was the ruler of which empire from 1520 until his death in 1566?

option: Ottoman

answer: 1

question: Native to the Caribbean, what kind of amphibian is a mountain chicken?

option: Frog

answer: 1

question: Which day of the week is mentioned in the ABBA hit Dancing Queen?

option: Friday

answer: 1

question: The Westcoaster yacht race is held annually between which two Australian capital cities?

option: Melbourne, Hobart

answer: 1

question: A hexagon has how many sides?

option: Six

answer: 1

question: In which year did World War II begin?

option: 1939

answer: 1

question: Which element is represented by the symbol Gd?

option: Gadolinium

answer: 1

question: Who won the inaugural series of Australian Idol in 2003?

option: Guy Sebastian

answer: 1

question: The name of which Indian city was officially changed to Chennai in 1996?

option: Madras

answer: 1

question: Which comedy duo starred in the 1937 film Way Out West?

option: Laurel and Hardy

answer: 1

question: Shiitake, oyster and chanterelle are all types of what?

option: Mushroom

answer: 1

question: Mount Wilhelm is which country’s highest peak?

option: Papua New Guinea’s

answer: 1

question: How is Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 more commonly known?

option: Unfinished Symphony

answer: 1

question: In which French city is the Arc de Triomphe?

option: Paris

answer: 1

question: Name the container ship which was recently wedged in the Suez Canal

option: Ever Given

answer: 1

question: Who composed the three-act opera Lohengrin?

option: Richard Wagner

answer: 1

question: What nationality was artist Henri Matisse?

option: French

answer: 1

question: Who became the first Catholic US president in 1961?

option: John F. Kennedy

answer: 1

question: Name the five cities starting with M which have hosted the Summer Olympics

option: Melbourne, Mexico City, Munich, Montreal, Moscow

answer: 1

question: What was the ancient Roman name for London?

option: Londinium

answer: 1

question: Who created James Bond?

option: Ian Fleming

answer: 1

question: Which actor narrated the 1964 film Zulu?

option: Richard Burton

answer: 1

question: Des Moines is the capital of which American state?

option: Iowa

answer: 1

question: Which musical beat is known as “common time”?

option: 4/4

answer: 1

question: Name the broadcaster sacked by FIVEaa on March 29.

option: Jeremy Cordeaux

answer: 1

question: According to the nursery rhyme, what are the names of the “two little dicky birds sitting on a wall”?

option: Peter and Paul

answer: 1

question: What is Harry Potter’s middle name?

option: James

answer: 1

question: Which Welsh singer had a hit in 1983 with Total Eclipse of the Heart?

option: Bonnie Tyler

answer: 1

question: How often are the Commonwealth Games held?

option: Every four years

answer: 1

question: What is the star sign of a person born on October 5?

option: Libra

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1910 play Misalliance?

option: George Bernard Shaw

answer: 1

question: Which word can follow strangle, strong and toe to make three new words?

option: Hold (stranglehold, stronghold, toehold)

answer: 1

question: Who played Rhett Butler in the 1939 film Gone With the Wind?

option: Clark Gable

answer: 1

question: What colour is the square on the flag of Chile?

option: Blue

answer: 1

question: Who is Australia’s Defence Minister?

option: Peter Dutton

answer: 1

question: The sum of two numbers is 416 and the difference between them is 74 – what are the two numbers?

option: 245, 171

answer: 1

question: “Sadism vile” is an anagram of which US jazz musician?

option: Miles Davis

answer: 1

question: Who played Richie Cunningham in the US television series Happy Days?    

option: Ron Howard

answer: 1

question: Which alcoholic drink is known as “mother’s ruin”?

option: Gin

answer: 1

question: What is the nickname of the New Zealand women’s national cricket team?

option: White Ferns

answer: 1

question: What type of reptile is a chuckwalla?

option: Lizard

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Slovakia?

option: Bratislava

answer: 1

question: Which two planets are called “ice giants”?

option: Uranus, Neptune

answer: 1

question: How many crosses are on the Union Jack?

option: Three

answer: 1