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question: With which pick was Rory Sloane taken by Adelaide in the 2008 AFL draft?

option: 44

answer: 1

question: Bollywood is the term for which country’s film industry?

option: India’s

answer: 1

question: The name of which South American country is derived from the Latin word for silver?

option: Argentina

answer: 1

question: In which year was the first Tour Down Under?

option: 1999

answer: 1

question: Which trophy is awarded to the winner of the men’s Rugby World Cup, the premier competition in men’s international rugby union?

option: Webb Ellis Cup

answer: 1

question: How many ounces are in a pound?

option: 16

answer: 1

question: Who composed the music for the 1911 ballet Petrushka?

option: Igor Stravinsky

answer: 1

question: Who directed the 1994 film Pulp Fiction?

option: Quentin Tarantino

answer: 1

question: Anhidrosis is the inability to do what normally?

option: Sweat

answer: 1

question: Which US singer-songwriter is the mother of children called Willow Sage and Jameson Moon?

option: Pink

answer: 1

question: In which continent is the Gobi Desert?

option: Asia

answer: 1

question: What is Thailand’s largest island?

option: Phuket

answer: 1

question: How many square inches are in a square foot?

option: 144

answer: 1

question: Who invented dynamite?

option: Alfred Nobel

answer: 1

question: What was the first science-fiction novel to feature the desert planet Arrakis?

option: Dune

answer: 1

question: Over how many metres is the W. S. Cox Plate contested each year at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Melbourne?

option: 2040

answer: 1

question: Which musical instrument is on Ireland’s coat of arms?

option: Harp

answer: 1

question: Who plays Alf Stewart, below, in the Australian television soap opera Home And Away?

option: Ray Meagher

answer: 1

question: The Battle of Castillon in 1453 marked the end of which conflict between England and France?

option: Hundred Years’ War

answer: 1

question: The Beaufort Sea is part of which ocean?

option: Arctic

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name a two-word Adelaide suburb: SLKAEOBTCFR.

option: Black Forest

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the poem commonly known as Tintern Abbey?

option: William Wordsworth

answer: 1

question: Which grow faster - fingernails or toenails?

option: Fingernails

answer: 1

question: Name the only US president whose surname starts and ends with a vowel.

option: Barack Obama

answer: 1

question: What was the first name of the title character, played by Jack Nicholson, in the 2002 film About Schmidt?

option: Warren

answer: 1

question: In which year was the Australian $5 note first issued?

option: 1967

answer: 1

question: Who performed the theme song of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye?

option: Tina Turner

answer: 1

question: Jobe Watson is a former captain of which AFL team?

option: Essendon

answer: 1

question: In which year was the summit of Mt Everest first reached?

option: 1953

answer: 1

question: Who wrote 1856 book Madame Bovary?

option: Gustave Flaubert

answer: 1

question: The Great Northern Highway is in which Australian state?

option: Western Australia

answer: 1

question: Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Eros?

option: Cupid

answer: 1

question: Ti is the symbol for which chemical element?

option: Titanium

answer: 1

question: “Cinque” is the Italian word for which number?

option: Five

answer: 1

question: What is the capital city of New Zealand?

option: Wellington

answer: 1

question: Which sport do the Chicago Blackhawks play?

option: Ice hockey

answer: 1

question: What is the official language of Yemen?

option: Arabic

answer: 1

question: Which American state begins with V and ends with T?

option: Vermont

answer: 1

question: What is the name of the long, broad sash worn with a kimono?

option: Obi

answer: 1

question: In which Australian state or territory is Mt Zeil the highest peak?

option: Northern Territory

answer: 1

question: Which is the higher poker hand - three of a kind or a full house?

option: Full house

answer: 1

question: What are the two colours of the stripes on the flag of Malaysia?

option: Red, white

answer: 1

question: The daughter of which famous singer was the second wife of US actor Nicolas Cage, right?

option: Elvis Presley (Lisa Marie Presley)

answer: 1

question: Convicted terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez is better known by what nickname?

option: Carlos the Jackal

answer: 1

question: Ixnay on the Hombre was a 1997 album by which US punk-rock band?

option: The Offspring

answer: 1

question: Which Central American country begins with E?

option: El Salvador

answer: 1

question: Who immediately preceded Sir Zelman Cowen as governor-general of Australia?

option: Sir John Kerr

answer: 1

question: What is a young hare called?

option: Leveret

answer: 1

question: In which year was the original King Kong film released?

option: 1933

answer: 1

question: Who sang the 1981 hit Bette Davis Eyes?

option: Kim Carnes

answer: 1