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Pop singer Britney Spears. What’s her younger sister’sname? Photo by Valerie Macon / AFP.

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question: How many milligrams are in a centigram?

option: 10

answer: 1

question: The fibres of which plant are used to make linen?

option: Flax

answer: 1

question: What do the letters CSIRO stand for?

option: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

answer: 1

question: In which continent is Lesotho a landlocked country?

option: Africa

answer: 1

question: Which standard poker hand falls between a flush and four of a kind?

option: Full house

answer: 1

question: Who is the presenter of the ABC-TV program Landline?

option: Pip Courtney

answer: 1

question: Which Canadian city is named after an 18th-century English navigator whose first name was George?

option: Vancouver

answer: 1

question: Cuban-born Ojani Noa was the first husband of which US singer?

option: Jennifer Lopez

answer: 1

question: In the musical composition Peter and the Wolf, which character is represented by the string instruments?

option: Peter

answer: 1

question: Which Australian television soap opera is set in the fictitious town of Summer Bay?

option: Home and Away

answer: 1

question: The Pilbara is a region in which Australian state?

option: Western Australia

answer: 1

question: Richo is a nickname of which Channel 7 AFL expert commentator?

option: Matthew Richardson

answer: 1

question: Bismarck is the capital of which American state?

option: North Dakota

answer: 1

question: On which Greek island was the painter known as El Greco born in 1541?

option: Crete

answer: 1

question: What are the first six words of the Adelaide Football Club’s theme song?

option: We’re the pride of South Australia

answer: 1

question: Russia and which other country share land boundaries with Estonia?

option: Latvia

answer: 1

question: Thabo Mbeki was president of which country from 1999-2008?

option: South Africa

answer: 1

question: Who is the younger sister of US singer Britney Spears?

option: Jamie Lynn Spears

answer: 1

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

option: Unley

answer: 1

question: Which country won the most medals at the first Winter Olympics in 1924?

option: Norway

answer: 1

question: What was the subtitle of the 1994 film City Slickers II?

option: The Legend of Curly’s Gold

answer: 1

question: “Onside” is an anagram of which inventor’s surname?

option: Edison

answer: 1

question: What is the original first name of Pope Francis?

option: Jorge

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the science fantasy series of children’s books called Animorphs?

option: K.A. Applegate

answer: 1

question: Who was the 2021 Australian of the Year?

option: Grace Tame

answer: 1

question: Which two prime numbers are between 20 and 30?

option: 23, 29

answer: 1

question: What are the three parts of an atom?

option: Proton, neutron, electron

answer: 1

question: A Hibernophile is fond of which country?

option: Ireland

answer: 1

question: What is England’s oldest university?

option: University of Oxford

answer: 1

question: What type of creature is a francolin?

option: Bird

answer: 1

question: Name the two main male stars of the 1975 film The Sunshine Boys.

option: Walter Matthau, George Burns

answer: 1

question: Which US president was assassinated in 1901?

option: William McKinley

answer: 1

question: Soul Searchin’ was a 2016 album by which Australian singer?

option: Jimmy Barnes

answer: 1

question: Name the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

option: Philip Lowe

answer: 1

question: Which Graham Greene novel about an Englishman in Cuba was adapted into a 1959 film starring Alec Guinness?

option: Our Man in Havana

answer: 1

question: Who played the hapless Spanish waiter Manuel in the British television situation comedy series Fawlty Towers?

option: Andrew Sachs

answer: 1

question: Which American state is nicknamed the Green Mountain State?

option: Vermont

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, every cloud has what kind of lining?

option: Silver

answer: 1

question: Which English king did Peter O’Toole portray in the 1968 film The Lion in Winter?

option: Henry II

answer: 1

question: Miss Havisham is a character in which book by English author Charles Dickens?

option: Great Expectations

answer: 1

question: To sing a cappella is to sing without what?

option: Instrumental accompaniment

answer: 1

question: As It Was is a current hit for which English singer-songwriter?

option: Harry Styles

answer: 1

question: How many yellow cards are given to each player at the start of the board game Scruples?

option: Five

answer: 1

question: Vilnius is the largest city and capital of which country?

option: Lithuania

answer: 1

question: What is the nickname of Cheryl Toh, one of the Chasers in the television quiz show The Chase Australia?

option: Tiger Mum

answer: 1

question: In which year did English athlete Roger Bannister break the four-minute mile?

option: 1954

answer: 1

question: Which word rhymes with “soil” in the third line of the first verse of Advance Australia Fair?

option: Toil

answer: 1

question: Curly McLain is the main male character in which musical?

option: Oklahoma!

answer: 1

question: Who is president of the International Olympic Committee?

option: Thomas Bach

answer: 1

question: In which year was the Battle of Hastings?

option: 1066

answer: 1