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Jawaharlal Nehru, pictured here with Sir Robert Menzies in 1960, was which country’s first Prime Minister? Photo: AP

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question: How old is Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison?

option: 53

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1980 book The Bourne Identity?

option: Robert Ludlum

answer: 1

question: What is the tiny gap between two nerve cells called?

option: Synapse (or neuronal junction)

answer: 1

question: Who won the 2021 Brownlow Medal?

option: Ollie Wines

answer: 1

question: What is the Latin word for iron?

option: Ferrum

answer: 1

question: Name the four terrestrial planets in the solar system.

option: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

answer: 1

question: Tirana is the capital of which country?

option: Albania

answer: 1

question: In which Adelaide suburb is The Advertiser’s printing plant?

option: Mile End

answer: 1

question: What is oneirology?

option: Scientific study of dreams

answer: 1

question: Which US jazz saxophonist released the 1960 album Giant Steps?

option: John Coltrane

answer: 1

question: In which country did the sport of orienteering originate?

option: Sweden

answer: 1

question: What kind of reptile is a krait?

option: Snake

answer: 1

question: The slogan “The pleasure’s all mine” is used to advertise which chocolate bar?

option: Cherry Ripe

answer: 1

question: How many days are in a leap year?

option: 366

answer: 1

question: Teams from Europe and the US contest which sport for the Ryder Cup?

option: Golf

answer: 1

question: In 1803, the US nearly doubled in size when it bought the Louisiana Territory from which country?

option: France

answer: 1

question: Jawaharlal Nehru was which country’s first prime minister?

option: India’s

answer: 1

question: Name the offspring of Myrtle the goat which appeared in the sixth season of the US television drama series The Waltons.

option: Gingerbread

answer: 1

question: What is the study or collecting of birds’ eggs called?

option: Oology

answer: 1

question: The Emancipation of Mimi was a 2005 album by which US singer?

option: Mariah Carey

answer: 1

question: What is the largest town on Kangaroo Island?

option: Kingscote

answer: 1

question: Which fictional little girl sleeps in a polished walnut shell cradle and rows a boat made from a tulip petal?

option: Thumbelina (story by Hans Christian Andersen)

answer: 1

question: Other than Antarctica, name the only continent which has never hosted an Olympic Games.

option: Africa

answer: 1

question: How many heads does Zaphod Beeblebrox have in the comedy science-fiction franchise The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy created by English author Douglas Adams?

option: Two

answer: 1

question: What is the national fruit of India?

option: Mango

answer: 1

question: “The Nugget” is a nickname of which retired English snooker player?

option: Steve Davis

answer: 1

question: In which book of the Bible is the story of Adam and Eve?

option: Genesis

answer: 1

question: Pish-Tush, Peep-Bo, Ko-Ko and Yum-Yum are characters in which Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera?

option: The Mikado

answer: 1

question: Who played Ross Geller in the television situation comedy series Friends?

option: David Schwimmer

answer: 1

question: Lansing is the capital of which American state?

option: Michigan

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1859 book A Tale of Two Cities?

option: Charles Dickens

answer: 1

question: What is the last event in a decathlon?

option: 1500m

answer: 1

question: Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and which other gas?

option: Hydrogen

answer: 1

question: What is the square root of 36?

option: 6

answer: 1

question: What is alektorophobia?

option: Fear of chickens

answer: 1

question: In which Australian capital city is the West Gate Freeway?

option: Melbourne

answer: 1

question: The cover of which album by The Beatles features the group on a pedestrian crossing?

option: Abbey Road

answer: 1

question: Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and which other country have land borders with Syria?

option: Lebanon

answer: 1

question: Who composed the opera L’Orfeo?

option: Claudio Monteverdi

answer: 1

question: How many points is the blue ball worth in a game of snooker?

option: Five

answer: 1

question: In which year during World War II was the Battle of the Coral Sea?

option: 1942

answer: 1

question: Which French city is known as the “City of Popes”?

option: Avignon

answer: 1

question: Who directed the 1986 film Blue Velvet?

option: David Lynch

answer: 1

question: Name the longest-serving South Australian premier.

option: Sir Thomas Playford

answer: 1

question: By area, which is the second largest continent?

option: Africa

answer: 1

question: The letters OP stand for what kind of rum?

option: Overproof

answer: 1

question: Who was the first player to win the Grand Slam of tennis in a calendar year?

option: Don Budge (1938)

answer: 1

question: What is the oldest university in England?

option: Oxford

answer: 1

question: Pakistan and which other country are connected by the Khyber Pass?

option: Afghanistan

answer: 1

question: What is the most populated city in Vietnam?

option: Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon)

answer: 1