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The famous natural arch at Cabo San Lucas ... but which country is it in?

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question: A distinctive rock formation called the Arch of Cabo San Lucas is a tourist attraction in which country?

option: Mexico

answer: 1

question: Who recorded the 2008 hit Chasing Pavements?

option: Adele

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the Sherpa who conquered Mt Everest with Edmund Hillary in 1953?

option: Tenzing Norgay

answer: 1

question: Name the lead singer of British rock band Coldplay.

option: Chris Martin

answer: 1

question: In which American state is Billings the largest city?

option: Montana

answer: 1

question: Brian Warner is the real name of which US shock rocker?

option: Marilyn Manson

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is South America’s first capital city?

option: Asuncion (capital of Paraguay)

answer: 1

question: Otitis media is an infection of which part of the body?

option: Ear

answer: 1

question: The British television situation comedy series Porridge was set in what type of institution?

option: Prison

answer: 1

question: In which year did the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occur?

option: 1986

answer: 1

question: What colour is pasta verde?

option: Green

answer: 1

question: Which animal is the logo for the World Wide Fund for Nature?

option: Panda

answer: 1

question: What material is produced in a tannery?

option: Leather

answer: 1

question: A kangaroo and which bird support the shield on the Australian Coat of Arms?

option: Emu

answer: 1

question: What is bladderwrack?

option: Brown seaweed

answer: 1

question: “Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?” is a famous quotation from which 1930 film?

option: Hell’s Angels

answer: 1

question: What is calculated by dividing the distance travelled by the time it took?

option: Average speed

answer: 1

question: Narendra Modi is which country’s prime minister?

option: India’s

answer: 1

question: Which Australian prime minister had the initials E.G.W.?

option: (Edward) Gough Whitlam

answer: 1

question: Who won the Best Director Oscar for the 1966 film A Man For All Seasons?

option: Fred Zinnemann

answer: 1

question: Who sings the current hit Positions?

option: Ariana Grande

answer: 1

question: As If We Never Said Goodbye is a song from which musical?

option: Sunset Boulevard

answer: 1

question: Other than the echidna, what is the only living egg-laying mammal?

option: Platypus

answer: 1

question: In Greek mythology, who was the messenger of the gods?

option: Hermes

answer: 1

question: What nationality was painter Paul Gauguin?

option: French

answer: 1

question: 24 Sussex Drive is the address of the official residence of which country’s prime minister?

option: Canada’s

answer: 1

question: Into which Queensland bay does the Brisbane River flow?

option: Moreton Bay

answer: 1

question: Which country owns the Balearic Islands in the western Mediterranean?

option: Spain

answer: 1

question: Who immediately succeeded Lynn Arnold as Premier of South Australia in 1993?

option: Dean Brown

answer: 1

question: Who played May Day in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill?

option: Grace Jones

answer: 1

question: What is Australian singer-songwriter Angry Anderson’s real first name?

option: Gary

answer: 1

question: Flightless kiwi birds are native to which country?

option: New Zealand

answer: 1

question: The teas Darjeeling, Assam and Nilgiri come from which country?

option: India

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the Just So stories?

option: Rudyard Kipling

answer: 1

question: In Disney’s 1942 animated film Bambi, what type of creature is Flower?

option: Skunk

answer: 1

question: “Owlish ailment” is an anagram of which Formula One driver?

option: Lewis Hamilton

answer: 1

question: What nationality is Tadej Pogacar, winner of the 2020 Tour de France?

option: Slovenian

answer: 1

question: In chemistry, a standard atmosphere (atm) is equivalent to how many millimetres of mercury?

option: 760

answer: 1

question: Which star sign is between Virgo and Scorpio?

option: Libra

answer: 1

question: What was the name of Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in the 1997 film Titanic?

option: Jack Dawson

answer: 1

question: In which Australian state is the city of Warrnambool?

option: Victoria

answer: 1

question: How many bowls of porridge are in the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: What kind of structure was the Pharos, built at Alexandria in Egypt in the third century BC?

option: Lighthouse

answer: 1

question: What is US President Donald Trump’s Secret Service codename?

option: Mogul

answer: 1

question: What is the title of the French national anthem?

option: La Marseillaise

answer: 1

question: In which year did Spanish dictator Francisco Franco die – 1965, 1975 or 1985?

option: 1975

answer: 1

question: With how many pawns does each player begin a game of chess?

option: Eight

answer: 1

question: Which Vietnamese city was formerly called Saigon?

option: Ho Chi Minh City

answer: 1

question: In which organ of the body is insulin produced?

option: Pancreas

answer: 1

question: On what date in January will Joe Biden be sworn in as the 46th US President?

option: January 20

answer: 1