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question: By population, what is the second-largest city in Italy?

option: Milan

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question: Where in the human body is the pisiform bone?

option: Wrist

answer: 1

question: Who sang the 2015 hit Hello?

option: Adele

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, how many lives does a cat have?

option: Nine

answer: 1

question: The viola belongs to which section of an orchestra?

option: String

answer: 1

question: Fatso the wombat appeared in which Australian television series?

option: A Country Practice

answer: 1

question: What does a toxophilite like?

option: Archery

answer: 1

question: “More stars than there are in heaven” was an advertising slogan for which US film studio?

option: MGM

answer: 1

question: Which author created the British naval officer Horatio Hornblower?

option: C.S. Forester

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, which is the first of the six naturally occurring noble gases?

option: Argon

answer: 1

question: Who composed the music for the comic ballet Coppelia?

option: Leo Delibes

answer: 1

question: On what day of the week will Christmas Day fall in 2023?

option: Monday

answer: 1

question: What name is given to a female pig that has already had a litter?

option: Sow

answer: 1

question: Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

option: Amelia Earhart

answer: 1

question: What is the name of the character played by US actor Tom Cruise in the 1988 film Rain Man?

option: Charlie Babbitt

answer: 1

question: What kind of person is a yellow-belly?

option: Coward

answer: 1

question: What is the square of 25?

option: 625

answer: 1

question: A decathlete competes in how many different track and field events?

option: 10

answer: 1

question: The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is based in which European city?

option: Amsterdam

answer: 1

question: Which Bee Gees’ hit includes the lyrics: “I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk”?

option: Stayin’ Alive

answer: 1

question: What is oneirology?

option: Study and interpretation of dreams

answer: 1

question: A dromedary camel has how many humps?

option: One

answer: 1

question: How many pounds are in a stone?

option: 14

answer: 1

question: What does the colloquial expression “hit the sack” mean?

option: To go to bed in order to sleep

answer: 1

question: How many points are on the Mercedes-Benz star?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: The stray cats of which city were the subject of the 2016 documentary film Kedi?

option: Istanbul

answer: 1

question: Name the English inventor of the spinning jenny.

option: James Hargreaves

answer: 1

question: Name the Hungarian-born founder of Zionism in 1897.

option: Theodor Herzl

answer: 1

question: Adults typically have how many teeth?

option: 32

answer: 1

question: Lansing is the capital of which American state?

option: Michigan

answer: 1

question: What was Africa’s first republic?

option: Liberia

answer: 1

question: In which sea is the Isle of Man?

option: Irish Sea

answer: 1

question: What is the 19th letter of the English alphabet?

option: S

answer: 1

question: Which zodiac sign is between Aries and Gemini?

option: Taurus

answer: 1

question: Singer-songwriter Paul Kelly was born in which Australian capital city?

option: Adelaide

answer: 1

question: In which Australian state is the mouth of the Snowy River?

option: Victoria

answer: 1

question: In the 1962 hit Sheila by US singer Tommy Roe, what colour are the title character’s eyes?

option: Blue

answer: 1

question: What does octangular mean?

option: Having eight angles

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name an Adelaide suburb: NEGSDIEL.

option: Glenside

answer: 1

question: How many American states begin with the letter R?

option: One (Rhode Island)

answer: 1

question: Who came first: Superman or Batman?

option: Superman

answer: 1

question: What was US film producer Walt Disney’s middle name?

option: Elias

answer: 1

question: An Oxonian is a student or graduate of which English university?

option: Oxford

answer: 1

question: What sport do the Boston Red Sox play?

option: Baseball

answer: 1

question: How many degrees are in each interior angle of an equilateral triangle?

option: 60

answer: 1

question: In which US city is the headquarters of the Mormon Church?

option: Salt Lake City

answer: 1

question: What is the sum of all the numbers from 31 to 36 inclusive?

option: 201

answer: 1

question: During which war did the Charge of the Light Brigade take place in 1854?

option: Crimean War

answer: 1

question: In which Australian state is the town of Great Western?

option: Victoria

answer: 1

question: Ascorbic acid is another name for which vitamin?

option: C

answer: 1