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question: On which river is Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine?

option: Dnieper

answer: 1

question: How many vowels are in the first half of the English alphabet?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: In the nursery rhyme The Farmer in the Dell, what does the dog take?

option: The cat

answer: 1

question: In which year did Papua New Guinea achieve full independence from Australia?

option: 1975

answer: 1

question: What is triskaidekaphobia?

option: Fear of the number 13

answer: 1

question: Who played the Cowardly Lion in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz?

option: Bert Lahr

answer: 1

question: In the British television situation comedy series Are You Being Served?, what were the two first names of Mr Humphries (John Inman)?

option: Wilberforce Claybourne

answer: 1

question: Which country is home to the most polar bears?

option: Canada

answer: 1

question: How many days are in 12 fortnights?

option: 168

answer: 1

question: How many white dots are in the Domino’s Pizza logo?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: Which actor slapped comedian Chris Rock at the Academy Awards on March 27?

option: Will Smith

answer: 1

question: How many countries begin with the letters Li?

option: Four (Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania)

answer: 1

question: The song Get Me to the Church on Time comes from which musical?

option: My Fair Lady

answer: 1

question: Who played the title role in the 1980 film American Gigolo?

option: Richard Gere

answer: 1

question: Which is not a prime number: 97, 197, 297 or 397?

option: 297

answer: 1

question: By area, what is the largest county in Ireland?

option: Cork

answer: 1

question: What do the letters J&B stand for in the name of the whisky manufacturer?

option: Justerini & Brooks

answer: 1

question: In the song My Favourite Things from The Sound of Music, what colour are the satin sashes?

option: Blue

answer: 1

question: Which South Australian university was founded in 1991?

option: University of South Australia

answer: 1

question: By population, Palermo is the largest city on which Mediterranean island?

option: Sicily

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, what is mightier than the sword?

option: The pen

answer: 1

question: What kind of creature is a scup?

option: Fish

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Vietnam?

option: Vietnamese dong

answer: 1

question: What are the adherents of Islam called?

option: Muslims

answer: 1

question: “It’s what’s inside that counts” is an advertising slogan for which brand of yoghurt?

option: Jalna

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the first sign of the zodiac?

option: Aquarius

answer: 1

question: In which year was the first iPhone released?

option: 2007

answer: 1

question: How many days are in November?

option: 30

answer: 1

question: Who is the captain of AFL team Melbourne?

option: Max Gawn

answer: 1

question: Which Apollo mission had to return to Earth after suffering an explosion on its flight to the moon in 1970?

option: Apollo 13

answer: 1

question: What is said to be the first casualty of war?

option: Truth

answer: 1

question: Xinhua is which country’s official news agency?

option: China’s

answer: 1

question: What is the French word for Wednesday?

option: Mercredi

answer: 1

question: By area, which is the largest American state?

option: Alaska

answer: 1

question: What colour is The Wiggles’ car?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: How many of the 118 elements of the periodic table begin with the letter Z?

option: Two (zinc, zirconium)

answer: 1

question: In which country is the city of Lahore?

option: Pakistan

answer: 1

question: “Document ale” is an anagram of which French painter?

option: Claude Monet

answer: 1

question: Who is South Australia’s Health and Wellbeing Minister?

option: Chris Picton

answer: 1

question: In the 2016 animated feature film Moana, which goddess do the inhabitants of the Polynesian island of Motunui worship?

option: Te Fiti

answer: 1

question: What colour is the letter “e” in the eBay logo?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: What is Harry Potter’s middle name?

option: James

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the high school in the 1970s US television situation comedy series Welcome Back, Kotter?

option: James Buchanan High School

answer: 1

question: Which came first – the Spanish Armada or the Great Fire of London?

option: Spanish Armada

answer: 1

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

option: Seaton

answer: 1

question: In Roman mythology, who was the wife of Jupiter?

option: Juno

answer: 1

question: What were the two main airlines to use the Concorde in commercial service?

option: British Airways, Air France

answer: 1

question: Errata is the plural of which word?

option: Erratum

answer: 1

question: Which is not a noble gas: neon, argon, helium or radium?

option: Radium

answer: 1

question: Which three letters of the Greek alphabet have names ending in “on”?

option: Epsilon, omicron, upsilon

answer: 1