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question: Who created the comic strip Garfield?

option: Jim Davis

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, who was first in the list of Cricket Australia’s contracted players published in The Advertiser on April 24?

option: Ashton Agar

answer: 1

question: I Got You Babe was a 1965 hit for which US pop duo?

option: Sonny & Cher

answer: 1

question: Via Veneto is a famous street in which European capital?

option: Rome

answer: 1

question: Which three colours are on the national flag of Belgium?

option: Black, yellow, red

answer: 1

question: Who directed the 1973 film American Graffiti?

option: George Lucas

answer: 1

question: What does ossiferous mean?

option: Containing bones (especially fossil bones)

answer: 1

question: Which 1987 film opens with a man securing a poster for La Boheme in a glass display case at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House?

option: Moonstruck

answer: 1

question: David Teague is the senior coach of which AFL club?

option: Carlton

answer: 1

question: On which day of the week will June 2021 begin?

option: Tuesday

answer: 1

question: What is the surname of the brothers in the musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers?

option: Pontipee

answer: 1

question: What were the given names of English cricketer W. G. Grace?

option: William Gilbert

answer: 1

question: In the news recently, what is KRI Nanggala 402?

option: Indonesian submarine that sank off Bali

answer: 1

question: A pot of what is said to be at the end of a rainbow?

option: Gold

answer: 1

question: Which country hosted the 1978 FIFA World Cup?

option: Argentina

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name an Adelaide suburb – AAADLNU.

option: Auldana

answer: 1

question: Alomancy is the foretelling of future events by means of what?

option: Salt

answer: 1

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

option: Gaetano Donizetti

answer: 1

question: The ram is a symbol for which star sign?

option: Aries

answer: 1

question: Which character played by Gloria Swanson in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, pictured below, says: “I am big, it’s the pictures that got small”?

option: Norma Desmond

answer: 1

question: Who was named Best Actor at the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25?

option: Anthony Hopkins

answer: 1

question: In which year did the Heysen Tunnels on the South Eastern Freeway open?

option: 2000

answer: 1

question: In which European country is the port of Piraeus?

option: Greece

answer: 1

question: What is the maximum attainable score in a perfect game of tenpin bowling?

option: 300

answer: 1

question: Which city is the spiritual centre of Islam?

option: Mecca

answer: 1

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

option: Oscar Wilde

answer: 1

question: Name the Italian physicist best known for his invention of the barometer.

option: Evangelista Torricelli

answer: 1

question: What was the middle name of US author Louisa Alcott?

option: May

answer: 1

question: In which American state is the city of Seattle?

option: Washington

answer: 1

question: A slam dunk is a shot in which sport?

option: Basketball

answer: 1

question: Who is Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs?

option: Karen Andrews

answer: 1

question: Name the stage and film musical about the group The 4 Seasons.

option: Jersey Boys

answer: 1

question: Who is the coach of the Socceroos?

option: Graham Arnold

answer: 1

question: Which Indian city is the setting for the 2011 film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel?

option: Jaipur

answer: 1

question: Which day of the week is mentioned in the song I Am the Walrus by The Beatles?

option: Tuesday

answer: 1

question: What is Portugal’s capital and largest city?

option: Lisbon

answer: 1

question: Of what is an oenophile a connoisseur?

option: Wine

answer: 1

question: In botany, what does aphyllous mean?

option: Having no leaves

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the book Giant on which the 1956 film of the same name was based?

option: Edna Ferber

answer: 1

question: Joko Widodo is which country’s president?

option: Indonesia’s

answer: 1

question: In which country is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer?

option: India (Serum Institute of India)

answer: 1

question: What is the monetary unit of the Cayman Islands?

option: Cayman Islands dollar

answer: 1

question: Which of the three constituent parts of an atom has no electric charge?

option: Neutron

answer: 1

question: What part of the human body is the hallux?

option: Big toe

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, a stitch in time saves how many?

option: Nine

answer: 1

question: What is a baby llama called?

option: Cria

answer: 1

question: In which year did the Flinders Medical Centre at Bedford Park open?

option: 1976

answer: 1

question: What is the total number of sides on an octagon and a nonagon?

option: 17 (8, 9)

answer: 1

question: Who is the host of Big Brother on Channel 7?

option: Sonia Kurger

answer: 1

question: How many days are in five leap years?

option: 1830

answer: 1