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Queen Elizabeth in an official portrait ahead of her Coronation... in what year?

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question: What kind of card game is Texas Hold ‘Em?

option: Poker

answer: 1

question: What is the penultimate event in the decathlon?

option: Javelin

answer: 1

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

option: Fullarton

answer: 1

question: In a recipe, what do the letters in the measurement “tsp” stand for?

option: Teaspoon

answer: 1

question: What is the missing word in the title of this viral video, first seen on YouTube in 2007: Charlie Bit My ...?

option: Finger

answer: 1

question: In Roman mythology, who was the god of fire?

option: Vulcan

answer: 1

question: Which horse won the 2020 Melbourne Cup?

option: Twilight Payment

answer: 1

question: Launched earlier this year, name the social media platform created by a company founded by former US president Donald Trump.

option: Truth Social

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1945 book Animal Farm?

option: George Orwell

answer: 1

question: Which country has the longest coastline?

option: Canada

answer: 1

question: In which year was the coronation of the Queen?

option: 1953

answer: 1

question: How often does a biannual event occur?

option: Twice a year

answer: 1

question: Christmas was a given name of which Australian prime minister?

option: Earle Christmas Grafton Page

answer: 1

question: In which modern country are the ruins of the ceremonial complex of Persepolis?

option: Iran

answer: 1

question: In a battery, what is the opposite of an anode?

option: Cathode

answer: 1

question: Which country shares Switzerland’s longest border?

option: Italy

answer: 1

question: In the lyrics of Madonna’s 1990 hit Vogue, which fellow actor immediately follows Gene Kelly?

option: Fred Astaire

answer: 1

question: What colour are the stars on the American flag?

option: White

answer: 1

question: Name the river which runs through the centre of the Italian city of Florence.

option: Arno

answer: 1

question: In which year did Adam Cooney (Western Bulldogs) win the Brownlow Medal?

option: 2008

answer: 1

question: A standard piano has how many keys?

option: 88

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the play Cymbeline?

option: William Shakespeare

answer: 1

question: How many seconds are in nine minutes?

option: 540

answer: 1

question: Who was prime minister of Australia when Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin in 1974?

option: Gough Whitlam

answer: 1

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

option: Seven

answer: 1

question: Who was carried into the closing ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney on a giant thong?

option: Kylie Minogue

answer: 1

question: Ned McHenry is No.25 for which AFL club?

option: Adelaide

answer: 1

question: How many people appear in Vincent van Gogh’s 1885 painting The Potato Eaters?

option: Five

answer: 1

question: In Morse code, which letter is represented by three dashes?

option: O

answer: 1

question: In which year was Australian bushranger Ned Kelly executed?

option: 1880

answer: 1

question: The three main states of matter are solid, liquid and what?

option: Gas

answer: 1

question: Who composed the opera Tancredi?

option: Gioachino Rossini

answer: 1

question: Who was the fourth US president?

option: James Madison

answer: 1

question: In which subject did Prince William graduate from university with a Master of Arts degree?

option: Geography

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Turkey?

option: Ankara

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the second to last planet in the solar system?

option: Uranus

answer: 1

question: What is the symbol for the chemical element iodine?

option: I

answer: 1

question: Which star sign falls between Sagittarius and Aquarius?

option: Capricorn

answer: 1

question: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a work by which English poet?

option: Thomas Gray

answer: 1

question: The song The Impossible Dream comes from which musical?

option: Man of La Mancha

answer: 1

question: Which gland in the human body is also called the hypophysis?

option: Pituitary gland

answer: 1

question: In which year did the US spaceflight Apollo 11 land on the moon?

option: 1969

answer: 1

question: In Under Milk Wood, “a play for voices” by Dylan Thomas, who is Captain Cat’s deceased lover?

option: Rosie Probert

answer: 1

question: Fumio Kishida is Prime Minister of which Asian country?

option: Japan

answer: 1

question: What nationality was human heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard?

option: South African

answer: 1

question: Bill Masen is the central character in which book by English science-fiction author John Wyndham?

option: The Day of the Triffids

answer: 1

question: Which British prime minister was nicknamed the Grand Old Man?

option: William Gladstone

answer: 1

question: What colour ribbon is worn to promote breast cancer awareness?

option: Pink

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, who is the third of Walt Disney’s Seven Dwarfs?

option: Dopey

answer: 1

question: Which double landlocked country (not only landlocked but also completely surrounded by other landlocked countries) begins with U?

option: Uzbekistan

answer: 1