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What colour was the sash Ned Kelly wore underneath his armour?

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question: Name the first cricketer born in Portugal to play for Australia in an international match.

option: Moises Henriques

answer: 1

question: Which mythological Greek figure flew so close to the sun that the wax on his wings began to melt?

option: Icarus

answer: 1

question: By how many points did Melbourne defeat the Western Bulldogs in the 2021 AFL grand final?

option: 74

answer: 1

question: What were the first names of Ray and Debra Barone’s twin sons in the US television situation comedy series Everybody Loves Raymond?

option: Geoffrey, Michael

answer: 1

question: Who is the Thane of Fife in William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth?

option: Macduff

answer: 1

question: Which Greek island was the birthplace of Pythagoras?

option: Samos

answer: 1

question: In the 1969 song Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) by Peter Sarstedt, in which Italian city are “two children begging in rags”?

option: Naples

answer: 1

question: How many times was US actor Marilyn Monroe married?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: What is the last picture show in the 1971 film The Last Picture Show?

option: Red River

answer: 1

question: Satchmo was a nickname of which US jazz trumpeter?

option: Louis Armstrong

answer: 1

question: What nationality was artist Rene Magritte?

option: Belgian

answer: 1

question: What is the second book of the Old Testament?

option: Exodus

answer: 1

question: In which year was Papua New Guinea granted independence?

option: 1975

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Zimbabwe?

option: Harare

answer: 1

question: What is an erythrocyte more commonly called?

option: Red blood cell

answer: 1

question: What kind of tree produces acorns?

option: Oak

answer: 1

question: Multiply the number of days in January by the number of days in April.

option: 930 (31 x 30)

answer: 1

question: Is gazpacho soup served hot or cold?

option: Cold

answer: 1

question: What is the name of Al Pacino’s character in the 1983 film Scarface?

option: Tony Montana

answer: 1

question: Pi is the 16th letter of which alphabet?

option: Greek

answer: 1

question: U is the symbol for which chemical element?

option: Uranium

answer: 1

question: In which year was the Battle of Agincourt between England and France?

option: 1415

answer: 1

question: At which golf club is the US Masters always played?

option: Augusta National

answer: 1

question: Which is the easternmost of North America’s five Great Lakes?

option: Lake Ontario

answer: 1

question: Which Austrian composer wrote the music for the Winterreise song cycle?

option: Franz Schubert

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the play The Mousetrap?

option: Agatha Christie

answer: 1

question: What colour was the sash Ned Kelly wore underneath his armour?

option: Green

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Fiji?

option: Fijian dollar

answer: 1

question: ”Sonntag” is the German word for which day of the week?

option: Sunday

answer: 1

question: Who was the Laughing Philosopher?

option: Democritus

answer: 1

question: Which three-letter word completes the following longer words: rec---, ---y, t---et?

option: Oil (recoil, oily, toilet)

answer: 1

question: In which year was Adelaide’s first Christmas Pageant held?

option: 1933

answer: 1

question: Which US jazz singer was nicknamed Lady Day?

option: Billie Holiday

answer: 1

question: “Got field hoe” is an anagram of which 1970s British television situation comedy series?

option: The Good Life

answer: 1

question: In which 1960s animated television series did Benny the Ball, a naive blue-coloured cat, win a trip to Hawaii?

option: Top Cat

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf?

option: Adolf Hitler

answer: 1

question: Which two fruits are anagrams of each other?

option: Lemon, melon

answer: 1

question: The Latin phrase ”tempus fugit” is usually translated into English as what?

option: Time flies

answer: 1

question: A chandelier swinging over the audience and crashing on to the stage ends the first act of which musical?

option: The Phantom of the Opera

answer: 1

question: Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of which number?

option: 13

answer: 1

question: What is the second-largest planet in the solar system?

option: Saturn

answer: 1

question: Name the two players who tied for the 2021 Magarey Medal.

option: James Tsitas, Bryce Gibbs

answer: 1

question: Which French food term literally means ”flight in the wind”?

option: Vol-au-vent

answer: 1

question: What sport do the Oklahoma City Thunder play?

option: Basketball

answer: 1

question: Who played Cosmo Kramer in the US television situation comedy series Seinfeld?

option: Michael Richards

answer: 1

question: To which Hollywood star was fellow performer Lauren Bacall married from 1945 until his death in 1957?

option: Humphrey Bogart

answer: 1

question: Which sport is contested by professional European and US women players every two years for the Solheim Cup?

option: Golf

answer: 1

question: What is the official language of El Salvador?

option: Spanish

answer: 1

question: In which country did comic actor Charlie Chaplin die in 1977?

option: Switzerland

answer: 1

question: Whispering Jack was a 1986 album by which Australian singer?

option: John Farnham

answer: 1