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question: How old is Prince George of Cambridge?

option: Eight (born July 22, 2013)

answer: 1

question: What is the basic colour of the label on a tin of Milo?

option: Green

answer: 1

question: What is the usual colour of Donald Duck’s bow tie?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name an Adelaide suburb – WLLAEIYV.

option: Wayville

answer: 1

question: How many sides does an enneadecagon have?

option: 19

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, actions speak louder than what?

option: Words

answer: 1

question: The Whispering Gallery is in which London cathedral?

option: St Paul’s

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of Mexico?

option: Mexican Peso

answer: 1

question: How many valves does the heart have?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: What is the longest river in Western Australia?

option: Gascoyne

answer: 1

question: By area, Negros is the fourth largest island of which country?

option: The Philippines

answer: 1

question: Which AFL team is nicknamed the Magpies?

option: Collingwood

answer: 1

question: The jarrah tree is native to which country?

option: Australia

answer: 1

question: What is the total number of days in the months of the year beginning with J?

option: 92 (January 31, June 30, July 31)

answer: 1

question: In English composer Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite The Planets, which planet is the Bringer of Peace?

option: Venus

answer: 1

question: In which ocean are the Faroe Islands?

option: (North) Atlantic

answer: 1

question: Who played the title role in the Harry Potter films?

option: Daniel Radcliffe

answer: 1

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

option: Six

answer: 1

question: In which year was the Great Fire of London?

option: 1666

answer: 1

question: Which month is named after the Roman god Janus?

option: Janus

answer: 1

question: Name the newspaper an elderly man is reading in the current AAMI Insurance backyard barbecue commercial.

option: The Daily Times

answer: 1

question: Who won the Euro 2020 final at Wembley Stadium in London on July 11?

option: Italy

answer: 1

question: Who was born first – Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin or Sammy Davis Jr?

option: Frank Sinatra

answer: 1

question: Which fruit is dried to make raisins?

option: Grapes

answer: 1

question: Where is the venomous sting of a scorpion located?

option: At the end of its tail

answer: 1

question: Who wrote The Chronicles Of Narnia series of fantasy novels?

option: C. S. Lewis

answer: 1

question: What is the surname of Sacha Baron Cohen’s satirical character Borat?

option: Sagdiyev

answer: 1

question: What does the expression “trip the light fantastic” mean?

option: To dance, usually ballroom dancing

answer: 1

question: What is the prime number closest to 90?

option: 89

answer: 1

question: Born This Way was a 2011 album by which US singer-songwriter?

option: Lady Gaga

answer: 1

question: Badghis, Kunduz and Parwan are provinces of which country?

option: Afghanistan

answer: 1

question: According to Greek mythology, which king had the ability to turn anything he touched into gold?

option: Midas

answer: 1

question: What are the three water signs in astrology?

option: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

answer: 1

question: In which song by The Beatles does Friday night arrive “without a suitcase”?

option: Lady Madonna

answer: 1

question: What nationality is Eddie Merckx, winner of five Tours de France?

option: Belgian

answer: 1

question: How many countries begin with the letter Y?

option: One (Yemen)

answer: 1

question: Who coached Adelaide to AFL premierships in 1997 and 1998?

option: Malcolm Blight

answer: 1

question: How many terraces bound the city centre of Adelaide?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, what is the last month of the year?

option: September

answer: 1

question: Who directed the 1986 film Platoon?

option: Oliver Stone

answer: 1

question: Who sang the 1983 hit Little Red Corvette?

option: Prince

answer: 1

question: Which Portuguese explorer named the Pacific Ocean?

option: Ferdinand Magellan

answer: 1

question: In which forest did Robin Hood, right, live with his Merry Men?

option: Sherwood Forest

answer: 1

question: How many hours are in 24 days?

option: 576

answer: 1

question: Bandar Seri Begawan is the capital of which Asian country?

option: Brunei

answer: 1

question: Who was Australia’s prime minister 40 years ago?

option: Malcolm Fraser

answer: 1

question: “Giugno” is the Italian word for which month of the year?

option: June

answer: 1

question: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

option: Marie Curie (Physics, 1903)

answer: 1

question: Who won the men’s singles final at Wimbledon on July 11?

option: Novak Djokovic

answer: 1

question: Beaudesert, the birthplace of professionalgolfer Jason Day, is in which Australian state?

option: Queensland

answer: 1