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question: In which year was the Queen born?

option: 1926

answer: 1

question: What colour are the 27 stars on the flag of Brazil?

option: White

answer: 1

question: What is ranidaphobia?

option: Fear of frogs

answer: 1

question: The Equator passes through how many South American countries?

option: Three (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador)

answer: 1

question: What does the musical direction “alla marcia” mean?

option: In the style of a march

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the play Lady Windermere’s Fan?

option: Oscar Wilde

answer: 1

question: Who sang the 1969 hit Galveston?

option: Glen Campbell

answer: 1

question: What is ophiology?

option: Study of snakes

answer: 1

question: Who was the captain of AFL club Port Adelaide from 2013-18?

option: Travis Boak

answer: 1

question: A harmless fib is what colour lie?

option: White

answer: 1

question: Who played the title character in the 1998 film Meet Joe Black?

option: Brad Pitt

answer: 1

question: What is the largest desert in Australia?

option: Great Victoria Desert

answer: 1

question: In physics, what are the three fundamental states of matter?

option: Solid, liquid, gas

answer: 1

question: The African country of Mauritania has a coastline on which ocean?

option: Atlantic

answer: 1

question: Which river flows through the Polish capital of Warsaw?

option: Vistula

answer: 1

question: Name the only US president to resign from office.

option: Richard Nixon

answer: 1

question: Mount Apo is the highest peak in which country?

option: The Philippines

answer: 1

question: Doomben is a racecourse in which Australian capital city?

option: Brisbane

answer: 1

question: Lae is which country’s second-largest city?

option: Papua New Guinea

answer: 1

question: Which fast-food restaurant chain offers a Loose Change Menu?

option: McDonald’s

answer: 1

question: Water boils at 212 degrees on which temperature scale?

option: Fahrenheit

answer: 1

question: What is the German word for “no”?

option: Nein

answer: 1

question: How many green letters are in the Google logo?

option: One (letter “l”)

answer: 1

question: Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport is in which country?

option: China

answer: 1

question: What does a bathometer measure?

option: Water depth

answer: 1

question: What is said to be the first casualty of war?

option: Truth

answer: 1

question: What is the traditional flavour of the soft drink Fanta?

option: Orange

answer: 1

question: How many horns does an Indian rhinoceros have?

option: One

answer: 1

question: What is 10 per cent of 180?

option: 18

answer: 1

question: Who was the male star of the 1987 film Dirty Dancing?

option: Patrick Swayze

answer: 1

question: In classical mythology, what was the name of the Cyclops blinded by Odysseus?

option: Polyphemus

answer: 1

question: Which AFL club won back-to-back premierships in 1997 and 1998?

option: Adelaide

answer: 1

question: Which letter in the English-language edition of Scrabble does not share a points value with any other letter?

option: K (five points)

answer: 1

question: Which nursery rhyme character “sat on a wall” and “had a great fall”?

option: Humpty Dumpty

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, there’s no smoke without what?

option: Fire

answer: 1

question: How many metres are in a kilometre?

option: 1000

answer: 1

question: What is the 12th sign of the zodiac?

option: Pisces

answer: 1

question: In music, duple time is rhythm characterised by how many beats in each bar?

option: Two

answer: 1

question: The song I Whistle a Happy Tune comes from which musical?

option: The King and I

answer: 1

question: By what name was US showman William Cody better known?

option: Buffalo Bill

answer: 1

question: Cape Agulhas is at the southern tip of which continent?

option: Africa

answer: 1

question: According to Polonius in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, what is the “soul of wit”?

option: Brevity

answer: 1

question: Which planet lies between Saturn and Neptune?

option: Uranus

answer: 1

question: What is the more common name of lateral epicondylitis?

option: Tennis elbow

answer: 1

question: Which country owns the Mediterranean island of Ibiza?

option: Spain

answer: 1

question: My Baby Shot Me Down is the subtitle of which 1966 hit by Cher?

option: Bang Bang

answer: 1

question: In the 1941 Disney animated film Dumbo, what kind of animal is the title character?

option: Elephant

answer: 1

question: Which word can be placed before bottle, bell and bird to form three new words?

option: Blue

answer: 1

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

option: Melbourne

answer: 1

question: A decennium is a period of how many years?

option: 10

answer: 1