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question: How many Russian cosmonauts have walked on the moon?

option: None

answer: 1

question: What type of bird is a widgeon?

option: Duck

answer: 1

question: What number is Edward, the Blue Engine, in the Thomas the Tank Engine stories?

option: 2

answer: 1

question: Name the Chancellor of Germany.

option: Olaf Scholz

answer: 1

question: Which company owns the web search engine Bing?

option: Microsoft

answer: 1

question: Which General Motors division made Bel Air cars?

option: Chevrolet

answer: 1

question: In which sport might a player bunt?

option: Baseball (batter gently taps a pitched ball without swinging in an attempt to make it more difficult to field)

answer: 1

question: Who founded Playboy magazine in 1953?

option: Hugh Hefner

answer: 1

question: Which Winter Olympics sport is known as “chess on ice”?

option: Curling

answer: 1

question: What type of reptile is a krait?

option: Snake

answer: 1

question: Who is the senior coach of AFL club Adelaide?

option: Matthew Nicks

answer: 1

question: Which two Malaysian states are on the island of Borneo?

option: Sarawak, Sabah

answer: 1

question: What is the most populated and wealthiest region of Italy?

option: Lombardy

answer: 1

question: What was the first film to star Roger Moore as James Bond?

option: Live and Let Die (1973)

answer: 1

question: How old is Australian actor Hugh Jackman?

option: 53

answer: 1

question: Oranjestad is the capital of which Dutch Caribbean island?

option: Aruba

answer: 1

question: Name the film director who said: “Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”

option: Alfred Hitchcock

answer: 1

question: H is the symbol of which chemical element?

option: Hydrogen

answer: 1

question: Beginning with E, what is the more common name of cerumen?

option: Earwax

answer: 1

question: The world’s second-largest coral reef system is off the coast of which Central American country?

option: Belize

answer: 1

question: Who played Ben Rafter in the Australian television series Packed to the Rafters?

option: Hugh Sheridan

answer: 1

question: “All the world’s a stage” are the first words of a monologue in which Shakespeare

play?

option: As You Like It

answer: 1

question: Diamonds are made of which single element?

option: Carbon

answer: 1

question: What does pusillanimous mean?

option: Lacking strength of mind or courage; faint-hearted; cowardly

answer: 1

question: Which Pokemon has fire at the end of its tail?

option: Charmander

answer: 1

question: In which year did US actor John Wayne die?

option: 1979

answer: 1

question: Eaten in England, what is a chip butty?

option: Sandwich filled with hot chips

answer: 1

question: Who played the role of FBI special agent Dana Scully in the US television series The X-Files?

option: Gillian Anderson

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 2003 book A Short History of Nearly Everything?

option: Bill Bryson

answer: 1

question: The Gresham Hotel was on the southwest corner of North Tce and which other Adelaide street?

option: King William St

answer: 1

question: What is the colour of Superman’s cape?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: The song You Can’t Get a Man With a Gun comes from which musical?

option: Annie Get Your Gun

answer: 1

question: What is the present-day name of the city once called Byzantium?

option: Istanbul

answer: 1

question: What was the title character’s first name in the 1971 film Shaft?

option: John

answer: 1

question: What is the northernmost country in Africa?

option: Tunisia

answer: 1

question: Who is the smallest Teletubby?

option: Po

answer: 1

question: In which Asian country is the city of Jalalabad?

option: Afghanistan

answer: 1

question: In the girl group Spice Girls, who was Ginger Spice?

option: Geri Halliwell

answer: 1

question: Guernica is a famous anti-war painting by which Spanish artist?

option: Pablo Picasso

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the play The Cherry Orchard?

option: Anton Chekhov

answer: 1

question: Who was the Bard of Avon?

option: William Shakespeare

answer: 1

question: Who was the second wife of US singer and politician Sonny Bono?

option: Cher

answer: 1

question: Australia is comprised of two internal territories and how many states?

option: Six

answer: 1

question: In which year did Sir Donald Bradman make his Test cricket debut?

option: 1928

answer: 1

question: Who is Queen of the Swans in Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake?

option: Odette

answer: 1

question: How many holes are on a standard golf course?

option: 18

answer: 1

question: Dr J is the nickname of which former US professional basketball player?

option: Julius Erving

answer: 1

question: Which star sign immediately follows Leo?

option: Virgo

answer: 1

question: On which day of the week is Thanksgiving annually celebrated in the US?

option: Thursday

answer: 1

question: What are the three official languages of Belgium?

option: Dutch, French, German

answer: 1