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question: How old is New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern?

option: 40

answer: 1

question: In area, what is the largest country in South America?

option: Brazil

answer: 1

question: Which fictional North Carolina town was the setting for the US television situation comedy series The Andy Griffith Show?

option: Mayberry

answer: 1

question: How many minutes are in a day?

option: 1440

answer: 1

question: In the nursery rhyme Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, where does the little boy live?

option: Down the lane

answer: 1

question: What sport do the New York Yankees play?

option: Baseball

answer: 1

question: Who played Butch in the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

option: Paul Newman

answer: 1

question: In geometry, what is the longest side of a right-angled triangle called?

option: Hypotenuse

answer: 1

question: The city of Chicago is at the southwest corner of which of North America’s Great Lakes?

option: Lake Michigan

answer: 1

question: What does a turophile like?

option: Cheese

answer: 1

question: On which Japanese island is the city of Yokohama?

option: Honshu

answer: 1

question: The celebrated bookshop City Lights is in which US city?

option: San Francisco

answer: 1

question: What is plutophobia?

option: Fear of wealth

answer: 1

question: Name the two pet turtles of Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) in the 1976 film Rocky.

option: Cuff and Link

answer: 1

question: The Star of David, a symbol of Judaism, has how many points?

option: Six

answer: 1

question: In which Australian state are the Blue Mountains?

option: New South Wales

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1874 novel Far From the Madding Crowd?

option: Thomas Hardy

answer: 1

question: Who recorded the 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited?

option: Bob Dylan

answer: 1

question: Imitation is said to be the sincerest form of what?

option: Flattery

answer: 1

question: How many days are in four leap years?

option: 1464

answer: 1

question: Who is the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia?

option: Michael McCormack

answer: 1

question: In which Australian state is the Huon River?

option: Tasmania

answer: 1

question: Which play is Oscar Wilde’s “Trivial Comedy for Serious People”?

option: The Importance of Being Earnest

answer: 1

question: In comedy, what is said to be everything?

option: Timing

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the first suit in a standard deck of playing cards?

option: Clubs

answer: 1

question: How many syllables are in a quadrisyllabic word?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: Who composed the three-act comic opera Albert Herring?

option: Benjamin Britten

answer: 1

question: What is bibliopegy?

option: Art of binding books

answer: 1

question: Name the only Australian Prime Minister born in Tasmania.

option: Joseph Lyons

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, what makes Jack a dull boy?

option: All work and no play

answer: 1

question: What was the successful slogan used by the ALP throughout the 1972 federal election campaign?

option: It’s time

answer: 1

question: What is the 10th letter of the English alphabet?

option: J

answer: 1

question: How many sides has a quindecagon?

option: 15

answer: 1

question: How many elements are listed on the periodic table?

option: 188

answer: 1

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

option: Mile End

answer: 1

question: Which river runs through the New South Wales city of Dubbo?

option: The Macquarie River

answer: 1

question: What is the international dialling code for Italy?

option: 39

answer: 1

question: How many prime numbers are between 60 and 70 inclusive?

option: Two (61, 67)

answer: 1

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

option: 1000

answer: 1

question: What is the dominant religion of Libya?

option: Islam

answer: 1

question: Which legendary hero performed 12 extraordinary labours?

option: Hercules

answer: 1

question: In which musical do the characters Cosette, Gavroche, Fantine and Eponine appear?

option: Les Miserables

answer: 1

question: The Big Banana is in which New South Wales city?

option: Coffs Harbour

answer: 1

question: What is a young whale called?

option: Calf

answer: 1

question: Arondight was the sword of which Arthurian knight?

option: Lancelot

answer: 1

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

option: Woodwind

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Spain?

option: Madrid

answer: 1

question: What is Dutch courage?

option: Confidence gained from alcohol

answer: 1

question: How many months of the year begin with the letter M?

option: Two (March, May)

answer: 1

question: The song A Bushel and a Peck comes from which musical?

option: Guys and Dolls

answer: 1