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question: Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia, is the daughter of which mining magnate?

option: Lang Hancock

answer: 1

question: What is the world’s largest landlocked country?

option: Kazakhstan

answer: 1

question: What nationality were composers Franz Schubert, Joseph Haydn and Johann Strauss?

option: Austrian

answer: 1

question: Which French acrobat walked across a tightrope suspended over Niagara Falls for the first time in 1859?

option: Charles Blondin

answer: 1

question: The hat switch routine from the 1931 short film Beau Hunks is one of which comedy duo’s Funniest Scenes on YouTube?

option: Laurel and Hardy

answer: 1

question: Who coached AFL club Collingwood for the last time on June 14?

option: Nathan Buckley

answer: 1

question: Cats have more bones than humans – true or false?

option: True

answer: 1

question: The headquarters of low-cost airline Ryanair is in which country?

option: Ireland

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Cyprus?

option: Nicosia

answer: 1

question: Who played multiple related characters in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets?

option: Alec Guinness

answer: 1

question: Which composer did German author Thomas Mann call “probably the greatest talent in the entire history of art”?

option: Richard Wagner

answer: 1

question: What was the middle name of US jazz musician Thelonious Monk – Square, Circle or Sphere?

option: Sphere

answer: 1

question: Name the only country with which Portugal shares a land border.

option: Spain

answer: 1

question: Of which gas is ozone a form?

option: Oxygen

answer: 1

question: Yoshihide Suga is which country’s Prime Minister?

option: Japan’s

answer: 1

question: How many prime numbers are between 20 and 30 inclusive?

option: Two (23, 29)

answer: 1

question: In bridge, what term describes a hand in which no card is higher than a nine?

option: Yarborough

answer: 1

question: Rhea is the second-largest moon of which planet?

option: Saturn

answer: 1

question: Name the three territories of Canada.

option: Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut

answer: 1

question: Who played Bond girl Honey Ryder in the 1962 film Dr No?

option: Ursula Andress

answer: 1

question: What colour is the lower horizontal stripe on the flag of Poland?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: Which three-letter word completes the following longer words: c---, cas---, nep---?

option: Hew (chew, cashew, nephew)

answer: 1

question: Which US rock singer did AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan dress as for his Big Freeze slide at the MCG on June 14?

option: Meat Loaf

answer: 1

question: Who is the youngest child of the Queen and Prince Philip?

option: Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

answer: 1

question: Who composed the 1987 opera Nixon In China?

option: John Adams

answer: 1

question: How is the first day of the Normandy landings in World War II better known?

option: D-Day

answer: 1

question: “Lacked bard” is an anagram of which British television series?

option: Blackadder

answer: 1

question: Who was the Victorian Football League’s first coach of Indigenous background?

option: Graham “Polly” Farmer (Geelong 1973-75)

answer: 1

question: What is petrology?

option: Study of rocks

answer: 1

question: Which country has the internet suffix .dk?

option: Denmark

answer: 1

question: Acute, obtuse, straight, right and reflex are all types of what?

option: Angles

answer: 1

question: Who sang the 1978 hit Wuthering Heights?

option: Kate Bush

answer: 1

question: Which book of the New Testament comes between Acts and 1 Corinthians?

option: Romans

answer: 1

question: Name the pet cat of Beatrix Potter’s Tailor of Gloucester.

option: Simpkin

answer: 1

question: Which insect transmits malaria?

option: Mosquito

answer: 1

question: Who defeated Andy Murray to win the 2012 Wimbledon men’s singles final?

option: Roger Federer

answer: 1

question: Which Russian city is home to the Kirov Ballet (also known as the Mariinsky Ballet)?

option: St Petersburg

answer: 1

question: Orly Airport serves which European city?

option: Paris

answer: 1

question: Released in 1953, the Tulip line was a creation of which French fashion designer?

option: Christian Dior

answer: 1

question: Which US city is nicknamed the Big Easy?

option: New Orleans

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the play Waiting For Godot?

option: Samuel Beckett

answer: 1

question: Which SANFL club is nicknamed the Roosters?

option: North Adelaide

answer: 1

question: Three consecutive even numbers are multiplied together to produce 5760 – what are the three numbers?

option: 16, 18, 20

answer: 1

question: What is autophobia?

option: Fear of being alone

answer: 1

question: The Hoover Dam, right, is on the border of which two American states?

option: Nevada, Arizona

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the lawyer played by Tom Hanks in the 1993 film Philadelphia?

option: Andrew Beckett

answer: 1

question: What kind of creature is a dunnock?

option: Bird

answer: 1

question: Who won the French Open men’s singles tennis final on June 13?

option: Novak Djokovic

answer: 1

question: What is the Spanish word for Sunday?

option: Domingo

answer: 1

question: Who played the Cowardly Lion in the 1939 film The Wizard Of Oz?

option: Bert Lahr

answer: 1