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Former Beatle John Lennon with wife Yoko Ono in bed in Montreal in 1969. What year did they get married?

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question: In which century did Joan of Arc live?

option: 15th

answer: 1

question: What is a baby kangaroo called?

option: Joey

answer: 1

question: What is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species?

option: Emperor penguin

answer: 1

question: Marcus Bontempelli is the captain of which AFL team?

option: Western Bulldogs

answer: 1

question: In which year did Yoko Ono and John Lennon marry?

option: 1969

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

option: Harriet Beecher Stowe

answer: 1

question: On whose life was the 2004 film The Aviator based?

option: Howard Hughes

answer: 1

question: What is 90 per cent of 550?

option: 495

answer: 1

question: Which poem by T. S. Eliot begins “April is the cruellest month ...”?

option: The Waste Land

answer: 1

question: How many decades are in five centuries?

option: 50

answer: 1

question: Name the two male members of ABBA.

option: Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson

answer: 1

question: What is the missing word in this advertising slogan: “Get some ... on your fork”?

option: Pork

answer: 1

question: Which planet is named after the Roman god of the sea?

option: Neptune

answer: 1

question: Who succeeded Sir Edmund Barton as Australia’s second prime minister?

option: Alfred Deakin

answer: 1

question: Who composed the four-act opera Nabucco?

option: Giuseppe Verdi

answer: 1

question: What is chiroptophobia?

option: Fear of bats

answer: 1

question: How many American states begin with the word “North”?

option: Two (North Carolina, North Dakota)

answer: 1

question: What was Zelda Gilroy’s nickname for Dobie in the 1960s US television situation comedy series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis?

option: Poopsie

answer: 1

question: Who directed the 1954 film Dial M For Murder?

option: Alfred Hitchcock

answer: 1

question: Which country won the 1978 FIFA World Cup?

option: Argentina

answer: 1

question: Which US female pop-rock band had a 1986 hit with Walk Like an Egyptian?

option: Bangles

answer: 1

question: Name the Catholic nun and missionary who was awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.

option: Mother Teresa

answer: 1

question: The Galilean moons are the four largest moons of which planet?

option: Jupiter

answer: 1

question: What colour is the face of a cheviot sheep?

option: White

answer: 1

question: What nationality was artist Edgar Degas?

option: French

answer: 1

question: Lillehammer, site of the 1994 Winter Olympics, is in which country?

option: Norway

answer: 1

question: Which letter is immediately to the right of S on a standard keyboard?

option: D

answer: 1

question: Which make of vehicle is advertised as “The Ultimate Driving Machine”?

option: BMW

answer: 1

question: The Olt is the longest river flowing exclusively through which country?

option: Romania

answer: 1

question: Juba is the capital city of which African country?

option: South Sudan

answer: 1

question: Mr Bumble is a character in which novel by English author Charles Dickens?

option: Oliver Twist

answer: 1

question: What is a female moose called?

option: Cow

answer: 1

question: Performed by Whitney Houston in the 1992 film The Bodyguard, who composed the song I Will Always Love You?

option: Dolly Parton

answer: 1

question: In which year was the original Australian $50 note introduced?

option: 1973

answer: 1

question: The Big Rocking Horse is a tourist attraction in which Adelaide Hills town?

option: Gumeracha

answer: 1

question: Which Canadian singer married Argentinian actor-model Luisana Lopilato in 2011?

option: Michael Buble

answer: 1

question: Which three countries are known as the Baltic states?

option: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

answer: 1

question: A gram is equal to how many milligrams?

option: 1000

answer: 1

question: In which 1963 film did Sean Connery play James Bond for the second time?

option: From Russia With Love

answer: 1

question: What is 90 in Roman numerals?

option: XC

answer: 1

question: What is vexillology?

option: Study of flags

answer: 1

question: How many days are in December?

option: 31

answer: 1

question: Which company makes Special K breakfast cereal?

option: Kellogg’s

answer: 1

question: Europe and Africa are separated by which sea?

option: Mediterranean

answer: 1

question: Who is the Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly?

option: Josh Teague

answer: 1

question: A silver wedding anniversary signifies how many years of marriage?

option: 25

answer: 1

question: By population, what is Canada’s largest city?

option: Toronto

answer: 1

question: How many times did Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg, above, win the Australian Open?

option: Never

answer: 1

question: What is Adam’s ale?

option: Water

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the first country in Asia?

option: Afghanistan

answer: 1