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question: Sauerkraut is made from fermented what?

option: Cabbage

answer: 1

question: In which modern country are the ruins of Troy?

option: Turkey

answer: 1

question: Which number from 0 to 12 on the Beaufort wind force scale indicates “violent storm”?

option: 11

answer: 1

question: How many playing squares are on a Scrabble board?

option: 225

answer: 1

question: Who was the second wife of King Henry VIII of England?

option: Anne Boleyn

answer: 1

question: What is the name of the title character in the opera The Barber of Seville?

option: Figaro

answer: 1

question: Mt Kinabalu is which Southeast Asian country’s highest peak?

option: Malaysia’s

answer: 1

question: How did English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh die in 1618?

option: Execution by beheading

answer: 1

question: Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek are characters in which play by William Shakespeare?

option: Twelfth Night

answer: 1

question: A plane’s black box flight recorder is usually which colour?

option: Orange

answer: 1

question: In which country did tai chi originate?

option: China

answer: 1

question: The Tirari Desert is in which ­Australian state?

option: South Australia

answer: 1

question: In 1966, the African nation of Botswana gained independence from which country?

option: Britain

answer: 1

question: What does the Australian word “jumbuck” mean?

option: Sheep

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1959 military science-fiction novel Starship Troopers?

option: Robert A. Heinlein

answer: 1

question: Released in 1995, Frogstomp was the debut album by which Australian rock band?

option: Silverchair

answer: 1

question: How many stars are on the flag of Papua New Guinea?

option: Five

answer: 1

question: In which country was the Muslim Brotherhood founded in 1928?

option: Egypt

answer: 1

question: In which year was the Melbourne Cup first filmed – 1896, 1906 or 1916?

option: 1896

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol?

option: Oscar Wilde

answer: 1

question: Who played Elwood Blues in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers?

option: Dan Aykroyd

answer: 1

question: How many cardinal points are on a compass?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: Ageusia is the loss of which sense?

option: Taste

answer: 1

question: Nitrous oxide is commonly known as what kind of gas?

option: Laughing

answer: 1

question: In which year did World War II start?

option: 1939

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the US yacht Australia II defeated to win the America’s Cup in 1983?

option: Liberty

answer: 1

question: Blanche DuBois is one of the main characters in which Tennessee Williams play?

option: A Streetcar Named Desire

answer: 1

question: “Suomi” is the native name for which country?

option: Finland

answer: 1

question: Name the winner of the 2021 Caulfield Cup.

option: Incentivise

answer: 1

question: Islam’s holiest city, Mecca, is in which country?

option: Saudi Arabia

answer: 1

question: Envy is associated with which colour?

option: Green

answer: 1

question: What is the most populous city in Scotland?

option: Glasgow

answer: 1

question: Name the two moons of the planet Mars.

option: Phobos, Deimos

answer: 1

question: By area, what is the second-largest country in South America?

option: Argentina

answer: 1

question: How many sides does an enneagon have?

option: Nine

answer: 1

question: To which 1969 film does the tagline “A man went looking for America and couldn’t find it anywhere” refer?

option: Easy Rider

answer: 1

question: Which country hosted the 2018 FIFA World Cup?

option: Russia

answer: 1

question: How many legs does a cockroach have?

option: Six

answer: 1

question: Arrange these four sets of letters into a single word – ER NE GO UND.

option: Undergone

answer: 1

question: How many seconds are in a day?

option: 86,400

answer: 1

question: What colour is the “y” in the eBay logo?

option: Green

answer: 1

question: What is the antepenultimate letter of the English alphabet?

option: X (third last)

answer: 1

question: Jenny Shipley was which country’s first female prime minister?

option: New Zealand’s

answer: 1

question: What is the national tree of China?

option: Ginkgo

answer: 1

question: What sport do the Harlem Globetrotters play?

option: Basketball

answer: 1

question: What is the star sign of a person born on New Year’s Day?

option: Capricorn

answer: 1

question: Which US singer-songwriter-guitarist released the 2013 album Paradise Valley?

option: John Mayer

answer: 1

question: Which animal is known as the “ship of the desert”?

option: Camel

answer: 1

question: Which word starting with D is used to describe a male bee?

option: Drone

answer: 1

question: Actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated which US president in 1865?

option: Abraham Lincoln

answer: 1