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Yellowstone National Park is in which US state?

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question: What is the maiden name of English fashion designer Victoria Beckham?

option: Adams

answer: 1

question: How many masts does a yawl have?

option: Two

answer: 1

question: In which country is the port city of Rotterdam?

option: The Netherlands

answer: 1

question: Which Irish rock band released the 1988 album Rattle and Hum?

option: U2

answer: 1

question: Who directed the 1995 film The Bridges of Madison County?

option: Clint Eastwood

answer: 1

question: Who sang the US national anthem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20?

option: Lady Gaga

answer: 1

question: Beginning with P, what is another common name for the cougar, mountain lion and panther?

option: Puma

answer: 1

question: “Hammiest gig” is an anagram of which English actor?

option: Maggie Smith

answer: 1

question: Where in London are the Crown Jewels kept?

option: Tower of London

answer: 1

question: Carl Rackemann played cricket for which Australian state during his Sheffield Shield career?

option: Queensland

answer: 1

question: Which Australian operatic soprano had a type of toast named after her?

option: Dame Nellie Melba

answer: 1

question: Israeli actor Topol played the lead male role in which 1971 film musical?

option: Fiddler on the Roof

answer: 1

question: In the Old Testament, who was sold to Potiphar as a slave?

option: Joseph

answer: 1

question: What sport do the Edmonton Oilers play?

option: Ice hockey

answer: 1

question: Edo was the name of which Asian city until 1868?

option: Tokyo

answer: 1

question: Who played lifeguard C.J. Parker in the US television series Baywatch?

option: Pamela Anderson

answer: 1

question: For how many years does Rip Van Winkle sleep in a story by US writer Washington Irving?

option: 20

answer: 1

question: Yellowstone National Park is mostly in which American state?

option: Wyoming

answer: 1

question: Who played the title role in the 1983 film Yentl?

option: Barbra Streisand

answer: 1

question: Name the Premier of Victoria.

option: Daniel Andrews

answer: 1

question: Which biblical character died at the age of 969.

option: Methuselah

answer: 1

question: In which country is Lake Winnipeg?

option: Canada

answer: 1

question: What type of food is bologna?

option: Sausage

answer: 1

question: Chinook is a variety of which fish?

option: Salmon

answer: 1

question: Name the New York apartment building outside which John Lennon was murdered in 1980.

option: The Dakota

answer: 1

question: Name the English author who wrote the 2008 James Bond book Devil May Care.

option: Sebastian Faulks

answer: 1

question: The liqueur chartreuse comes in green and which other colour?

option: Yellow

answer: 1

question: Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was on the Greek island of Rhodes?

option: Colossus of Rhodes (statue of Greek god Helios)

answer: 1

question: Shearing the Rams is a painting by which Australian artist?

option: Tom Roberts

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the plays Arcadia, Jumpers and The Real Thing?

option: Tom Stoppard

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Belarus?

option: Minsk

answer: 1

question: What type of creature is a stilt?

option: Bird

answer: 1

question: In which century did the War of the Spanish Succession occur?

option: 18th (1701-14)

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, which colour comes last on an original Rubik’s cube?

option: Yellow

answer: 1

question: Completed in 1882, the painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere was the last major work of which French artist?

option: Edouard Manet

answer: 1

question: What were the given names of British writer C.S. Lewis?

option: Clive Staples

answer: 1

question: Who was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover?

option: Queen Victoria

answer: 1

question: Using their chemical symbols, what kind of race can be made from rhenium, lanthanum and yttrium?

option: Relay (Re-La-Y)

answer: 1

question: Which chess piece is represented by the letter N?

option: Knight

answer: 1

question: In which city is the headquarters of the European Space Agency?

option: Paris

answer: 1

question: The Gulf of Guinea is part of which ocean?

option: Atlantic

answer: 1

question: Who became the first president of the Czech Republic in 1993?

option: Vaclav Havel

answer: 1

question: What is the seventh planet from the sun?

option: Uranus

answer: 1

question: Kolbasti is a traditional dance of which country?

option: Turkey

answer: 1

question: What type of sea creature is SpongeBob SquarePants’ best friend Patrick?

option: Starfish

answer: 1

question: Which word can precede fish, foot and mate to create three new words?

option: Flat (flatfish, flatfoot, flatmate)

answer: 1

question: Felipe VI became king of which country in 2014?

option: Spain

answer: 1

question: What is the missing word in the 2008 film title Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the … Skull?

option: Crystal

answer: 1

question: Mt Sinai is in which African country?

option: Egypt

answer: 1

question: A mallard is what kind of bird?

option: Duck

answer: 1