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question: What is 12 cubed?

option: 1728

answer: 1

question: In the Harry Potter stories, what name is given to a person who lacks any sort of magical ability?

option: Muggle

answer: 1

question: What is the first number to end in “teen”?

option: 13

answer: 1

question: Who recently said: “I want to tell you how sad I am to be giving up the best job in the world”?

option: Boris Johnson (in resignation speech as British Prime Minister)

answer: 1

question: In which European country is the port of Trieste?

option: Italy

answer: 1

question: How many lines are in 14 sonnets?

option: 196

answer: 1

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

option: Three

answer: 1

question: Name the Australian golfer who won the 150th British Open on July 17.

option: Cameron Smith

answer: 1

question: Which 1955 film featured US actor James Dean in his first major role?

option: East of Eden

answer: 1

question: What is a “purple patch”?

option: Period of good fortune

answer: 1

question: On which Japanese island is the city of Nagasaki?

option: Kyushu

answer: 1

question: In which country is the headquarters of the news organisation Al Jazeera?

option: Qatar

answer: 1

question: TIO Traeger Park is a sports complex in which Australian city?

option: Alice Springs

answer: 1

question: Which two Scandinavian countries share a border more than 1600km long?

option: Norway, Sweden

answer: 1

question: Who had a hit in 1981 with Physical?

option: Olivia Newton-John

answer: 1

question: In which Australian state is the Silver City Highway?

option: NSW

answer: 1

question: Of what is an oenophile a connoisseur?

option: Wine

answer: 1

question: How many stars are on the Chinese flag?

option: Five

answer: 1

question: Which instrument did US jazz musician Duke Ellington play?

option: Piano

answer: 1

question: Known for its ancient Roman buildings, Pula is a city in which European country?

option: Croatia

answer: 1

question: What does the expression “bell the cat” mean?

option: To perform a dangerous or risky task

answer: 1

question: In the nursery rhyme Itsy Bitsy Spider, what dries up all the rain?

option: The sun

answer: 1

question: Who was the only Australian to win a medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin?

option: Jack Metcalfe (bronze in men’s triple jump)

answer: 1

question: Friendship and joy are symbolised by what colour rose?

option: Yellow

answer: 1

question: What kind of animal is Shere Khan in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book?

option: (Bengal) tiger

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Sudan?

option: Khartoum

answer: 1

question: What is the smallest two-digit prime number?

option: 11

answer: 1

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

option: Gepps Cross

answer: 1

question: In which year did Neighbours premiere on Australian television?

option: 1985

answer: 1

question: What is the longest river entirely in France?

option: Loire

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1893 short story The Final Problem?

option: Arthur Conan Doyle

answer: 1

question: What kind of beverage is Earl Grey?

option: Tea

answer: 1

question: The name of which building in New York City is abbreviated to MoMA?

option: Museum of Modern Art

answer: 1

question: Shrove Tuesday can fall in which two months of the year?

option: February, March

answer: 1

question: Pandas are native to which continent?

option: Asia

answer: 1

question: How many of Walt Disney’s Seven Dwarfs wear glasses?

option: One (Doc)

answer: 1

question: Which language was invented by ophthalmologist LL Zamenhof in the late 1800s?

option: Esperanto

answer: 1

question: How many lives is a cat said to have?

option: Nine

answer: 1

question: What is noctiphobia?

option: Fear of the night

answer: 1

question: How many months are in 11 years?

option: 132

answer: 1

question: Name the telescope which earlier this month revealed the deepest, clearest images to date of the early universe.

option: James Webb Space Telescope

answer: 1

question: In a recent edition of 60 Minutes what did US singer-songwriter Billy Joel say he writes first – the music or the lyrics?

option: Music

answer: 1

question: Which world heavyweight boxing champion had his story made into a 2005 film called Cinderella Man starring Russell Crowe?

option: James J. Braddock

answer: 1

question: What does a psephologist study?

option: Elections and voting patterns

answer: 1

question: “Blank soul card” is an anagram of which US actor?

option: Sandra Bullock

answer: 1

question: Who became US president immediately after John F Kennedy was assassinated in 1963?

option: Lyndon Johnson

answer: 1

question: The song Climb Ev’ry Mountain comes from which musical?

option: The Sound of Music

answer: 1

question: Who is Donald Duck’s girlfriend?

option: Daisy Duck

answer: 1

question: Which river runs through Baghdad?

option: Tigris

answer: 1

question: How many blue pole-like lines, at different angles to each other, run down the canvas in the painting Blue Poles by US artist Jackson Pollock?

option: Eight

answer: 1