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question: Which play by William Shakespeare begins with a storm at sea?

option: The Tempest

answer: 1

question: Ian Fairweather was a personality on which Adelaide television station in the 1960s?

option: Channel 9

answer: 1

question: Farmer Grey, Squire Gordon and Farmer Thoroughgood are all characters in which 19th-century novel?

option: Black Beauty (by Anna Sewell)

answer: 1

question: In which continent is the Volta River?

option: Africa

answer: 1

question: Who is the patron saint of Scotland?

option: St Andrew

answer: 1

question: How old was Shane Warne when he died in Thailand on March 4?

option: 52

answer: 1

question: In the song Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, who is sitting at the edge of the bar?

option: Doris

answer: 1

question: Who is the Prime Minister of Canada?

option: Justin Trudeau

answer: 1

question: What are the two most populated cities in Croatia?

option: Zagreb, Split

answer: 1

question: Coxalgia is pain in which joint?

option: Hip

answer: 1

question: Who is the senior coach of AFL club Collingwood?

option: Craig McRae

answer: 1

question: Which European capital was overrun by Soviet tanks in 1956?

option: Budapest

answer: 1

question: Which sport is contested every two years by players from the US and Europe in the Ryder Cup?

option: Golf

answer: 1

question: By area, what is the second largest island of Japan?

option: Hokkaido

answer: 1

question: What is the world’s southernmost capital city?

option: Wellington (New Zealand)

answer: 1

question: Who is the lead singer of British rock band Coldplay?

option: Chris Martin

answer: 1

question: “Gennaio” is the Italian word for which month?

option: January

answer: 1

question: What was the first name of John Travolta’s character in the 1978 film Grease?

option: Danny

answer: 1

question: What is the prime number closest to 250?

option: 251

answer: 1

question: Bangui is the capital of which African country?

option: Central African Republic

answer: 1

question: What colour is the star on the flag of Ghana?

option: Black

answer: 1

question: Deuterium oxide is also known as “heavy” what?

option: Water

answer: 1

question: How is a person described as a tatterdemalion dressed?

option: In ragged clothing

answer: 1

question: In which country is the Angara River?

option: Russia

answer: 1

question: Which letter of the alphabet is The Scarlet Letter in the 1850 novel of the same name by US author Nathaniel Hawthorne?

option: A

answer: 1

question: How many children did Priscilla and Elvis Presley have?

option: One (Lisa Marie)

answer: 1

question: The title of which James Bond film begins with D and ends with Y?

option: Die Another Day (2002)

answer: 1

question: How many pairs of wings does a bee have?

option: Two

answer: 1

question: Which country won the 1977 America’s Cup?

option: US

answer: 1

question: What is the cube root of 1728?

option: 12

answer: 1

question: In a hit song from 1970, name the title character who makes “me sing like a guitar hummin’”?

option: Cracklin’ Rosie

answer: 1

question: In which London cemetery is German philosopher Karl Marx buried?

option: Highgate

answer: 1

question: “Bird” was a nickname of which US jazz saxophonist?

option: Charlie Parker

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name a two-word Adelaide suburb: REAAKLBUHP.

option: Beulah Park

answer: 1

question: The Champs-Elysees is a famous thoroughfare in which European capital city?

option: Paris

answer: 1

question: Which ABBA hit begins: “I work all night, I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay”?

option: Money, Money, Money

answer: 1

question: What is the international dialling code for Britain?

option: 44

answer: 1

question: In the nursery rhyme Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, which word rhymes with “wool”?

option: Full

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1897 book The Invisible Man?

option: H.G. Wells

answer: 1

question: What colour is the number 13 on a roulette wheel?

option: Black

answer: 1

question: In which year did Tokyo host the Summer Olympics for the first time?

option: 1964

answer: 1

question: What does an arctophile collect?

option: Teddy bears

answer: 1

question: Heliculture is the process of raising what for food?

option: Snails

answer: 1

question: In which Australian capital city is the suburb of Frenchs Forest?

option: Sydney

answer: 1

question: Translated, the name of which European capital means “white city”?

option: Belgrade

answer: 1

question: At which fast food restaurant chain can you order a Happy Meal?

option: McDonald’s

answer: 1

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

option: Five

answer: 1

question: “’Twas brillig” are the first two words of which famous poem?

option: Jabberwocky (by Lewis Carroll)

answer: 1

question: Which American state begins with W and ends with G?

option: Wyoming

answer: 1

question: How many degrees are in three right angles?

option: 270

answer: 1