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question: What is Australia’s southernmost capital city?

option: Hobart

answer: 1

question: Which German philosopher called religion the “opium of the people”?

option: Karl Marx

answer: 1

question: What is the maximum score in a game of tenpin bowling?

option: 300

answer: 1

question: Which three-word French expression means a passionate appeal, complaint or protest?

option: Cri de coeur

answer: 1

question: Name the lord mayor of Adelaide.

option: Sandy Verschoor

answer: 1

question: Beginning with B, what is another name for a pugilist?

option: Boxer

answer: 1

question: What is the real name of the Supernerd, one of the chasers, in the television quiz show The Chase Australia?

option: Issa Schultz

answer: 1

question: How old is Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Bieber?

option: 28

answer: 1

question: How many Sundays are in March this year?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: Sinhala is an official language of which country?

option: Sri Lanka

answer: 1

question: What is the holiest city for Muslims?

option: Mecca

answer: 1

question: In which year did Archer win the first Melbourne Cup?

option: 1861

answer: 1

question: What is 35 per cent of 60?

option: 21

answer: 1

question: Nashville is the capital of which American state?

option: Tennessee

answer: 1

question: In which year did Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - 1979, 1989 or 1999?

option: 1999

answer: 1

question: In the 1968 hit MacArthur Park by Irish actor Richard Harris, what is the colour of the cotton dress?

option: Yellow

answer: 1

question: Name a palindromic light canoe.

option: Kayak

answer: 1

question: Who is Australia’s Foreign Minister?

option: Marise Payne

answer: 1

question: In 1939, who defined Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”?

option: Winston Churchill

answer: 1

question: Who sang the 1989 hit Funky Cold Medina?

option: Tone Loc

answer: 1

question: Who is South Australia’s Director of Public Prosecutions?

option: Martin Hinton QC

answer: 1

question: Who plays Colonel Tom Parker in the forthcoming film Elvis?

option: Tom Hanks

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1925 book The Great Gatsby?

option: F. Scott Fitzgerald

answer: 1

question: Demolished in 1962, the Theatre Royal was in which Adelaide street?

option: Hindley St

answer: 1

question: Which Indian city was formerly called Madras?

option: Chennai

answer: 1

question: What is a young deer called?

option: Fawn

answer: 1

question: Which English actor was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in 1933?

option: Michael Caine

answer: 1

question: Released in 1968, what did the letters in Adelaide’s MATS Plan stand for?

option: Metropolitan Adelaide Transport Study

answer: 1

question: Who played the role of US entertainer Fanny Brice in the original production of the musical Funny Girl on Broadway i1964?

option: Barbra Streisand

answer: 1

question: How many sides has a hendecagon?

option: 11

answer: 1

question: How many times has Australia hosted the Summer Olympics?

option: Twice

answer: 1

question: Who is the CEO of the AFL?

option: Gillon McLachlan

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Zimbabwe?

option: Harare

answer: 1

question: After a wayward ball toss, which Australian tennis player frequently said “Sorry, mate” to his opponent?

option: Pat Rafter

answer: 1

question: By market capitalisation, what is the world’s most valuable company?

option: Apple

answer: 1

question: Bluey is a nickname for someone with what colour hair?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: What is the longest river in Ireland?

option: Shannon

answer: 1

question: Who was the Maid of Orleans?

option: Joan of Arc

answer: 1

question: The adjective “palpebral” refers to what part of the human face?

option: Eyelids

answer: 1

question: On which day of the week will 2023 begin?

option: Sunday

answer: 1

question: How many sides of a scalene triangle are equal in length?

option: None

answer: 1

question: A fromologist collects what kind of labels?

option: Cheese

answer: 1

question: Jason Orange was an original member of which English boy band?

option: Take That

answer: 1

question: What is Charlie’s surname in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

option: Bucket

answer: 1

question: In which country was Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan born?

option: South Africa

answer: 1

question: What is Australian actor Nicole Kidman’s middle name?

option: Mary

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Canada?

option: Canadian dollar

answer: 1

question: Who is Queen of the Wilis in the ballet Giselle?

option: Myrtha

answer: 1

question: What is necrolatry?

option: Worship of the dead

answer: 1

question: Which instrument did US jazz musician John Coltrane play?

option: Saxophone

answer: 1