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question: . How many AFL games did Eddie Betts play?

option: 350

answer: 1

question: Who played the title role in the 1974 film The Great Gatsby?

option: Robert Redford

answer: 1

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question: Garbanzo beans are better known as what?

option: Chickpeas

answer: 1

question: Who co-wrote the 1979 book Puberty Blues with Gabrielle Carey?

option: Kathy Lette

answer: 1

question: What is removed in a cholecystectomy?

option: Gallbladder

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name a two-word Adelaide suburb – RVAAEOKDRPN.

option: Davoren Park

answer: 1

question: Who was comedian Ronnie Corbett’s partner in the British television comedy sketch show The Two Ronnies?

option: Ronnie Barker

answer: 1

question: The bandicoot rat is native to which continent?

option: Asia

answer: 1

question: In which country is the source of the River Danube?

option: Germany

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Haiti?

option: Port-au-Prince

answer: 1

question: Mary Simon is which country’s governor-general?

option: Canada’s

answer: 1

question: Which marsupial appears five times on the Australian one-dollar coin?

option: Kangaroo

answer: 1

question: Who composed the three-act opera Don Pasquale?

option: Gaetano Donizetti

answer: 1

question: How many daughters does the title character have in William Shakespeare’s play King Lear?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: By area, what is the second-largest island of Japan?

option: Hokkaido

answer: 1

question: Who plays the title character in the Australian television crime drama series Jack Irish?

option: Guy Pearce

answer: 1

question: Which soft drink is part of Brett’s last meal in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction?

option: Sprite

answer: 1

question: Contemporary furniture and accessories company HAY is based in which country?

option: Denmark

answer: 1

question: Sailing was the first single from which 1975 album by Rod Stewart?

option: Atlantic Crossing

answer: 1

question: Who played accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in the 1991 film JFK?

option: Gary Oldman

answer: 1

question: Name the five republics of the former Soviet Union that end with “stan”.

option: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

answer: 1

question: Which famous crime fighter shares his name with a city in Turkey?

option: Batman

answer: 1

question: In which country was tennis player Gael Monfils born in 1986?

option: France

answer: 1

question: Which US actor was born Ermes Effron Borgnino in 1917?

option: Ernest Borgnine

answer: 1

question: Au is the symbol for which chemical element?

option: Gold

answer: 1

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

option: Four

answer: 1

question: In which South American country is the city of Florianopolis?

option: Brazil

answer: 1

question: The Golden Lion is the highest prize awarded at which film festival?

option: Venice Film Festival

answer: 1

question: Name the 1994 prison film in which Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman appeared.

option: The Shawshank Redemption

answer: 1

question: What is the indigenous religion of Japan?

option: Shinto

answer: 1

question: “Giovedi” is the Italian word for which day of the week?

option: Thursday

answer: 1

question: Of what is the third pig’s house made in the story of The Three Little Pigs?

option: Bricks

answer: 1

question: The song Frank Mills comes from which rock musical?

option: Hair

answer: 1

question: Beginning with G, what is another name for spider silk?

option: Gossamer

answer: 1

question: Westeros was a continent in which television fantasy drama series?

option: Game of Thrones

answer: 1

question: Name the sport beginning with Q in the Harry Potter books.

option: Quidditch

answer: 1

question: The song When You Wish Upon a Star was first heard in which 1940 animated film?

option: Pinocchio

answer: 1

question: What is the occupation of Mr Plod in the Noddy books?

option: Police officer

answer: 1

question: What is the world’s largest peninsula?

option: Arabian Peninsula

answer: 1

question: Which hit by Ian Dury and The Blockheads mentions “the vineyards of Bordeaux”?

option: Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

answer: 1

question: Who was the first African American to be elected US president?

option: Barack Obama

answer: 1

question: When cut in cross-section, which exotic fruit beginning with C resembles a five-pointed star?

option: Carambola

answer: 1

question: How did Lawrence of Arabia die?

option: Motorcycle accident

answer: 1

question: What is the more common name for triatomic oxygen?

option: Ozone

answer: 1

question: The Mediterranean island of Gozo belongs to which country?

option: Malta

answer: 1

question: How many vowels are in the word “absolutely”?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: What type of nut is used in a traditional Bulgarian garash cake?

option: Walnut

answer: 1

question: Which war is the setting for Ernest Hemingway’s book A Farewell to Arms?

option: World War I

answer: 1

question: In which continent is the landlocked country of Chad?

option: Africa

answer: 1

question: Who sang the 1967 hit Heroes and Villains?

option: The Beach Boys

answer: 1