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On the cover of which Nirvana album is a baby pictured swimming? Picture: Kurt Cobain during the taping of MTV Unplugged at Sony Studios, 1993. Photo by Frank Micelotta.

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question: In which American state is Walt Disney World?

option: Florida

answer: 1

question: The Titanic belonged to which British shipping company?

option: White Star Line

answer: 1

question: Who is the Deputy Premier of South Australia?

option: Susan Close

answer: 1

question: About whom was Anne Wills speaking when in July 2018 she said: “Truly one of our radio greats is gone”?

option: Jeff Sunderland

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1925 book The Great Gatsby?

option: F. Scott Fitzgerald

answer: 1

question: Which Australian cricketer ended his Test career with an average of 99.94 runs?

option: Don Bradman

answer: 1

question: Which team won its first AFL grand final in 1992?

option: West Coast Eagles

answer: 1

question: In which year did Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon, take place?

option: 1972

answer: 1

question: Which Belgian actor is nicknamed The Muscles from Brussels?

option: Jean-Claude Van Damme

answer: 1

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

option: Lake Erie

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name an American state: NIIAACFLRO.

option: California

answer: 1

question: Graeme Edwin was a disc jockey on which Adelaide radio station in the 1960s?

option: 5AD

answer: 1

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

option: A

answer: 1

question: How many months of the year contain the letter “o”?

option: Two (October, November)

answer: 1

question: In which year did the new Royal Adelaide Hospital open?

option: 2017

answer: 1

question: The term “ad lib”, meaning without previous preparation, comes from which language?

option: Latin

answer: 1

question: Who will wear No. 9 for AFL club Port Adelaide in 2023?

option: Zak Butters

answer: 1

question: Who was the Roman god of wine?

option: Bacchus

answer: 1

question: Which word was recently chosen as the Australian National University’s 2022 word of the year?

option: Teal

answer: 1

question: Into which ocean does the Orinoco, one of the longest rivers in South America, flow?

option: Atlantic

answer: 1

question: What is hydrophobia?

option: Fear of water

answer: 1

question: The Angkor Wat temple complex is in which country?

option: Cambodia

answer: 1

question: In what colour is a bank account said to be if it is overdrawn?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: Tegucigalpa is the capital of which Central American country?

option: Honduras

answer: 1

question: How old is US President Joe Biden?

option: 80

answer: 1

question: On which continent are the Ellsworth Mountains?

option: Antarctica

answer: 1

question: Methane contains one atom of carbon and how many atoms of hydrogen?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: What is the German word for Friday?

option: Freitag

answer: 1

question: Which company makes Weathershield paint?

option: Dulux

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, which is the second of Santa’s eight traditional reindeer?

option: Comet

answer: 1

question: In which ocean is the island of Diego Garcia?

option: Indian Ocean

answer: 1

question: What nationality was explorer Vasco da Gama?

option: Portuguese

answer: 1

question: The Saga of an American Family was the subtitle of which 1976 book by US author Alex Haley?

option: Roots

answer: 1

question: Which American city hosted the 1996 Summer Olympics?

option: Atlanta

answer: 1

question: How many days are in eight fortnights?

option: 112

answer: 1

question: In punctuation, what is the more common name for a period?

option: Full stop

answer: 1

question: Name the President of Indonesia.

option: Joko Widodo

answer: 1

question: What kind of sport takes place in a velodrome?

option: Cycling

answer: 1

question: On the cover of which Nirvana album is a baby pictured swimming?

option: Nevermind

answer: 1

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

option: Two

answer: 1

question: Which is the only day of the week named after a Roman god?

option: Saturday

answer: 1

question: Who was the inaugural coach of AFL club Adelaide?

option: Graham Cornes

answer: 1

question: Who plays Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film The Social Network?

option: Jesse Eisenberg

answer: 1

question: Name the four countries which start with “Be”?

option: Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin

answer: 1

question: The name of which Australian band is often shortened to 5SOS?

option: 5 Seconds of Summer

answer: 1

question: How many teams competed in the 2022 AFLW competition?

option: 18

answer: 1

question: Phenol is another name for which acid?

option: Carbolic

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, what comes before a fall?

option: Pride

answer: 1

question: What was the nickname of the 10th-century Danish and Norwegian king Harald Gormsson?

option: Bluetooth

answer: 1

question: What is Shakespeare’s longest play?

option: Hamlet

answer: 1