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Hollywood superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger became the Governor of which US state in 2003? AFP PHOTO/Jewel SAMAD

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question: What is a female elephant called?

option: Cow

answer: 1

question: Who was US outlaw Clyde Barrow’s partner in crime?

option: Bonnie Parker

answer: 1

question: Which 1987 film featured the line “Nobody puts Baby in a corner”?

option: Dirty Dancing

answer: 1

question: What subject did Connie Brooks (Eve Arden) teach at Madison High School in the television situation comedy series Our Miss Brooks?

option: English

answer: 1

question: Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of which American state in 2003?

option: California

answer: 1

question: Who is famous for his Law of Universal Gravitation?

option: Sir Isaac Newton

answer: 1

question: The chemical element stannum is better known by what name?

option: Tin

answer: 1

question: Encephalitis is the inflammation of which human organ?

option: Brain

answer: 1

question: What is the name of the dog in Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven books?

option: Scamper

answer: 1

question: By population, what is Scotland’s largest city?

option: Glasgow

answer: 1

question: What was the family surname in the Australian television situation comedy series Mother and Son?

option: Beare

answer: 1

question: Name the only British monarch to voluntarily abdicate.

option: King Edward VIII

answer: 1

question: What is the northernmost of Japan’s four main islands?

option: Hokkaido

answer: 1

question: Which US naval base and detention camp is located at the southeastern end of Cuba?

option: Guantanamo Bay

answer: 1

question: What is the 17th letter of the English alphabet?

option: Q

answer: 1

question: Which country is the setting for Puccini’s opera Turandot?

option: China

answer: 1

question: In which year did Iraq invade Kuwait?

option: 1990

answer: 1

question: How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write – 54, 154 or 254?

option: 154

answer: 1

question: What type of animal is Marty in the Madagascar films?

option: Zebra

answer: 1

question: Who played Hutch in the 1970s television series Starsky & Hutch?

option: David

answer: 1

question: Which 1954 film starring Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn was remade with Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond in 1995?

option: Sabrina

answer: 1

question: Of which country is Reykjavik the capital?

option: Iceland

answer: 1

question: Name the flat rubber disc used in ice hockey.

option: Puck

answer: 1

question: In P. G. Wodehouse’s stories, who is Bertie Wooster’s valet?

option: (Reginald) Jeeves

answer: 1

question: The Grand Canyon is in which American state?

option: Arizona

answer: 1

question: Which Australian country singer-songwriter was born David Gordon Kirkpatrick in 1927?

option: Slim Dusty

answer: 1

question: What is the official language of Uruguay?

option: Spanish

answer: 1

question: What is autophobia?

option: Fear of being alone or of loneliness

answer: 1

question: What is the nickname of New Zealand’s national men’s cricket team?

option: Black Caps

answer: 1

question: In navigation, what do the letters GPS stand for?

option: Global Positioning System

answer: 1

question: What is the main colour of a gang-gang cockatoo?

option: Grey

answer: 1

question: What is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species?

option: Emperor

answer: 1

question: Which actor and former swimming champion played the film role of Tarzan from 1932-48?

option: Johnny Weissmuller

answer: 1

question: What colour was Pebbles Flintstone’s hair in the animated television series The Flintstones?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: Who is the patron saint of England?

option: St George

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1959 book The Naked Lunch?

option: William S. Burroughs

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, who rush in where angels fear to tread?

option: Fools

answer: 1

question: In which years did Makybe Diva win three successive Melbourne Cups?

option: 2003, 2004, 2005

answer: 1

question: Who is Prime Minister of Canada?

option: Justin Trudeau

answer: 1

question: Who played Walt Disney in the 2013 film Saving Mr Banks?

option: Tom Hanks

answer: 1

question: In the films Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, what type of fish is Nemo?

option: Clownfish

answer: 1

question: Clarence Clemons played which instrument in The E Street Band?

option: Saxophone

answer: 1

question: In Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, what type of animal is Akela?

option: Wolf

answer: 1

question: Name the five states and territories which have a land border with South Australia.

option: Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia

answer: 1

question: April, May and June are the triplet nieces of which cartoon character?

option: Daisy Duck

answer: 1

question: Which alcoholic spirit is the basis of a daiquiri cocktail?

option: Rum

answer: 1

question: Adelaide won the AFL premiership in 1997 and which other year?

option: 1998

answer: 1

question: In the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, what is the occupation of Joe Gargery?

option: Blacksmith

answer: 1

question: In which Asian country is the River Kwai?

option: Thailand

answer: 1

question: In cricket, what do the letters LBW stand for?

option: Leg before wicket

answer: 1