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question: What nationality is film director Steven Spielberg?

option: American

answer: 1

question: What is the other name for the contagious disease rubella?

option: German measles

answer: 1

question: Who was the third person to walk on the moon?

option: Charles “Pete” Conrad

answer: 1

question: Who is Australia’s Social Services Minister?

option: Amanda Rishworth

answer: 1

question: How old is champion Australian golfer Minjee Lee?

option: 26

answer: 1

question: By population, what is Ukraine’s second-largest city?

option: Kharkiv

answer: 1

question: In which country was clothing company Uniqlo founded in 1974?

option: Japan

answer: 1

question: What is emetophobia?

option: Fear of vomiting

answer: 1

question: What is the star sign of a person born on Anzac Day?

option: Taurus

answer: 1

question: In area, which is larger: Iceland or the American state of Ohio?

option: Ohio

answer: 1

question: What colour are watercress leaves?

option: Green

answer: 1

question: Which vitamin does the human body manufacture when skin is exposed to sunlight?

option: Vitamin D

answer: 1

question: By size, what is the largest island in the Baltic Sea?

option: Gotland

answer: 1

question: By what name is the chemical element wolfram better known?

option: Tungsten

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name an Adelaide suburb: HREEIABKND.

option: Birkenhead

answer: 1

question: How many interlocking rings are in the logo of vehicle manufacturer Audi?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: The island of Sulawesi is part of which country?

option: Indonesia

answer: 1

question: The rhododendron is the national flower of which landlocked Asian country?

option: Nepal

answer: 1

question: Sleipnir, the magical horse of Norse god Odin, had how many legs?

option: Eight

answer: 1

question: In the book Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, in which city does Phileas Fogg begin and end his trip around the world?

option: London

answer: 1

question: The song And This is My Beloved comes from which 1953 Broadway musical?

option: Kismet

answer: 1

question: The spelling of which English county contains a candle part?

option: Warwickshire (wick)

answer: 1

question: Which French pianist was born Philippe Pages in 1953?

option: Richard Clayderman

answer: 1

question: Which has the most number of days: the first six months of the year or the last six months of the year?

option: Last six months of the year

answer: 1

question: Which chemical element has the atomic number 3?

option: Lithium

answer: 1

question: Vaduz is the capital of which European principality?

option: Liechtenstein

answer: 1

question: “Stile Liberty” is which country’s equivalent of Art Nouveau?

option: Italy’s

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the nonsense poem The Owl and the Pussycat?

option: Edward Lear

answer: 1

question: Who is South Australia’s Energy and Mining Minister?

option: Tom Koutsantonis

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1901 book The First Men in the Moon?

option: H. G. Wells

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Switzerland?

option: Swiss franc

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the third to last of the eight planets in the solar system?

option: Saturn

answer: 1

question: Jeremy Rockliff is premier of which Australian state?

option: Tasmania

answer: 1

question: In netball, a goal is worth how many points?

option: One

answer: 1

question: Name the Norwegian artist who painted The Scream.

option: Edvard Munch

answer: 1

question: Stonehenge is in which English county?

option: Wiltshire

answer: 1

question: The Shinano is which country’s longest river?

option: Japan’s

answer: 1

question: Jens Stoltenberg is secretary-general of which military alliance?

option: NATO

answer: 1

question: “Fromage” is the French word for what type of food?

option: Cheese

answer: 1

question: Who composed the orchestral suite The Planets?

option: Gustav Holst

answer: 1

question: In the game Battleship, which class of ship takes up three squares?

option: Submarine

answer: 1

question: How many points is the green ball worth in a game of snooker?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: What type of animal was television’s Skippy?

option: Kangaroo

answer: 1

question: How many times has Rafael Nadal won the men’s singles final at the French Open tennis championships?

option: 14

answer: 1

question: What was the name of Delta Goodrem’s character in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours?

option: Nina Tucker

answer: 1

question: In the children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by US author Eric Carle, what does the caterpillar eat on Tuesday?

option: Two pears

answer: 1

question: What is the official language of Trinidad and Tobago?

option: English

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1941 historical novel Frenchman’s Creek?

option: Daphne du Maurier

answer: 1

question: Which Michael Jackson hit begins “She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene”?

option: Billie Jean

answer: 1

question: Luke Beveridge is the head coach of which AFL club?

option: Western Bulldogs

answer: 1