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question: Angel Falls, the world’s highest freefalling waterfall, is in which South American country?

option: Venezuela

answer: 1

question: Who was the Greek god of dreams?

option: Morpheus

answer: 1

question: Name the new coach of the Adelaide 36ers.

option: Conner Henry

answer: 1

question: What did Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates call the best medicine?

option: Walking

answer: 1

question: Telencephalon, diencephalon and mesencephalon are all regions of which human organ?

option: Brain

answer: 1

question: How many American states share a border with Mexico?

option: Four (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas)

answer: 1

question: Helen Clark is a former prime minister of which country?

option: New Zealand

answer: 1

question: What is the opposite of concave?

option: Convex

answer: 1

question: Which natural product is an anagram of “barn”?

option: Bran

answer: 1

question: Name the only opera composed by Beethoven.

option: Fidelio

answer: 1

question: Which branch of mathematics derives its name from the Latin word for “pebble”?

option: Calculus

answer: 1

question: What type of creature is a hoopoe?

option: Bird

answer: 1

question: Which of The Beatles wrote the song Here Comes the Sun?

option: George Harrison

answer: 1

question: Name the American inventor of the cotton gin.

option: Eli Whitney

answer: 1

question: Which country owns the Canary Islands?

option: Spain

answer: 1

question: In which Australian state is the town of Penguin?

option: Tasmania

answer: 1

question: What colour is used to describe babies born with an artery defect which deprives them of adequate oxygen?

option: Blue

answer: 1

question: Which two Malaysian states are located on the island of Borneo?

option: Sarawak, Sabah

answer: 1

question: In which constellation is the star Betelgeuse?

option: Orion

answer: 1

question: In which New South Wales town is the confluence of the Darling and Murray rivers?

option: Wentworth

answer: 1

question: In golf, a bogey is a score of how many strokes over par on a single hole?

option: One

answer: 1

question: What nationality was Roald Amundsen, the first person to reach the South Pole?

option: Norwegian

answer: 1

question: Which two of Walt Disney’s Seven Dwarfs have five-letter names?

option: Dopey, Happy

answer: 1

question: In which year was Australian bushranger Ned Kelly executed?

option: 1880

answer: 1

question: Which Madonna hit begins “I made it through the wilderness”?

option: Like a Virgin

answer: 1

question: The song Defying Gravity comes from which musical?

option: Wicked

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Belgium?

option: Brussels

answer: 1

question: Who composed the music for the ballet Coppelia?

option: Leo Delibes

answer: 1

question: Which part of a flower collects pollen?

option: Stigma

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of India?

option: Indian rupee

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, what is the best policy?

option: Honesty

answer: 1

question: Who won the men’s singles final at Wimbledon in 2002?

option: Lleyton Hewitt

answer: 1

question: Which religious order was founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534?

option: Society of Jesus (members are called Jesuits)

answer: 1

question: In William Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice, what is the name of the title character?

option: Antonio

answer: 1

question: In which South American country was singer-songwriter-dancer Shakira born in 1977?

option: Colombia

answer: 1

question: Which stage and film musical starring Barbra Streisand was based on the life of US entertainer Fanny Brice?

option: Funny Girl

answer: 1

question: Which cartoon character’s catchphrase was “Here I come to save the day!”?

option: Mighty Mouse

answer: 1

question: About what was US actor-author Carrie Fisher speaking when she said: “I’m afraid to do it, because people come out looking like other people”?

option: Plastic surgery

answer: 1

question: Peter Noone was the lead singer of which 1960s English pop group?

option: Herman’s Hermits

answer: 1

question: What is phonophobia?

option: Irrational fear of loud noises

answer: 1

question: Which battle was fought on August 22, 1485?

option: Battle of Bosworth (Field), the last battle of the War of the Roses

answer: 1

question: To which section of an orchestra does the cornet belong?

option: Brass

answer: 1

question: “Pomme” is the French word for which fruit?

option: Apple

answer: 1

question: Which country is often called the Warm Heart of Africa?

option: Malawi

answer: 1

question: Name the four planets in our solar system that have ring systems.

option: Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune

answer: 1

question: How many worlds were in Norse mythology?

option: Nine

answer: 1

question: In the preschool animated television series Peppa Pig, what type of animal is Suzy?

option: Sheep

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the book Gone With the Wind?

option: Margaret Mitchell

answer: 1

question: What is the largest artery in the human body?

option: Aorta

answer: 1

question: In which language does “croeso” mean welcome?

option: Welsh

answer: 1