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question: Which Winter Olympics sport is often referred to as “chess on ice”?

option: Curling

answer: 1

question: What colour is the skin of a Granny Smith apple?

option: Green

answer: 1

question: Who wears No. 18 for AFL club Port Adelaide?

option: Zak Butters

answer: 1

question: What type of pastry is used to make a croquembouche?

option: Choux

answer: 1

question: How many arms are visible on Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing Vitruvian Man?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: In which modern day country are the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon?

option: Iraq

answer: 1

question: Who is Australia’s Minister for the Environment?

option: Sussan Ley

answer: 1

question: According to legend, which twin brothers founded Rome?

option: Romulus and Remus

answer: 1

question: In rugby union, which country does New Zealand play for the Bledisloe Cup?

option: Australia

answer: 1

question: In the British television situation comedy series Steptoe and Son, what was the father’s first name?

option: Albert

answer: 1

question: Which sport is contested in the annual Giro d’Italia?

option: Cycling

answer: 1

question: Using letters in the word “container”, make three containers.

option: Tin, can, crate

answer: 1

question: Sacramento is the capital of which American state?

option: California

answer: 1

question: In Greek mythology, who beheaded Medusa?

option: Perseus

answer: 1

question: Which Formula One driver was killed during practice for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in 1970?

option: Jochen Rindt

answer: 1

question: Kyushu is one of which country’s four main islands?

option: Japan’s

answer: 1

question: Which 2011 Ed Sheeran hit begins “White lips, pale face”?

option: The A Team

answer: 1

question: What part of the human body appears three times on the flag of the Isle of Man?

option: Leg

answer: 1

question: Which Canadian province begins and ends with the letter O?

option: Ontario

answer: 1

question: Which bird is an international symbol of happiness?

option: Bluebird

answer: 1

question: How many “frequency waves” appear in the Spotify logo?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: What is the major ingredient of guacamole?

option: Avocado

answer: 1

question: A silver wedding anniversary signifies how many years of marriage?

option: 25

answer: 1

question: What was the middle name of English author Jerome K. Jerome?

option: Klapka

answer: 1

question: What are the three “water” zodiac signs?

option: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

answer: 1

question: In which year were the first women elected to the South Australian Parliament - 1959, 1969 or 1979?

option: 1959 (Jessie Cooper, Joyce Steele)

answer: 1

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

option: Atlantic

answer: 1

question: How many sides does an octagon have?

option: Eight

answer: 1

question: Scafell Pike (England), Snowdon (Wales) and which other mountain in Scotland are scaled in Britain’s Three Peaks Challenge?

option: Ben Nevis

answer: 1

question: “Nor any scene” is an anagram of which Scottish actor?

option: Sean Connery

answer: 1

question: In which constellation is the star Betelgeuse?

option: Orion

answer: 1

question: How many syllables are in the word “indecipherability”?

option: Eight

answer: 1

question: On which planet is the volcano Olympus Mons?

option: Mars

answer: 1

question: What is half of 92?

option: 46

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Ecuador?

option: Quito

answer: 1

question: In an episode of which US television situation comedy series did a character called “The Soup Nazi” appear?

option: Seinfeld

answer: 1

question: Which Greek goddess personified the rainbow?

option: Iris

answer: 1

question: Which magazine was launched by US publisher Hugh Hefner in 1953?

option: Playboy

answer: 1

question: The president of which Asian country lives in the Blue House?

option: South Korea

answer: 1

question: Which Scandinavian country has the most people?

option: Sweden

answer: 1

question: Which lamb curry dish shares its name with a Melbourne Cup winner?

option: Rogan Josh

answer: 1

question: In which year did the Queen visit Australia for the first time?

option: 1954

answer: 1

question: Who is the 2021 Australian of the Year?

option: Grace Tame

answer: 1

question: Which word represents the letter N in the NATO phonetic alphabet?

option: November

answer: 1

question: In 2005, which US actor said she would “rather die” than feed her daughter instant soup?

option: Gwyneth Paltrow

answer: 1

question: What kind of creature is a taipan?

option: Snake

answer: 1

question: How many days are in October?

option: 31

answer: 1

question: What is the name for a female fox?

option: Vixen

answer: 1

question: What is epistemophobia?

option: Fear of knowledge

answer: 1

question: In which year was the Cuban missile crisis?

option: 1962

answer: 1