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question: By population, what is Australia’s second-largest city?

option: Melbourne

answer: 1

question: Which US actor is nicknamed “The Hoff”?

option: David Hasselhoff

answer: 1

question: What is the colour of the star on the flag of North Korea?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: Eagle Farm and Doomben are racecourses in which Australian capital city?

option: Brisbane

answer: 1

question: Who was Australian prime minister on the day current Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was born in 1963?

option: Sir Robert Menzies

answer: 1

question: Which Norwegian artist painted The Scream in 1893?

option: Edvard Munch

answer: 1

question: Who plays Fuller, youngest cousin of Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin), in the 1990 film Home Alone?

option: Kieran Culkin (brother of Macaulay)

answer: 1

question: Which Beatle is barefoot on the cover of the 1969 album Abbey Road?

option: Paul McCartney

answer: 1

question: How many horns does an Indian rhinoceros have?

option: One

answer: 1

question: What is the sum of all the odd numbers from 11 to 19 inclusive?

option: 75

answer: 1

question: “Noggin” is a colloquial word for what part of the body?

option: Head

answer: 1

question: What does a dermatherm measure?

option: Skin temperature

answer: 1

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

option: Beaumont

answer: 1

question: In golf, a bogey is a score of how many over par on an individual hole?

option: One

answer: 1

question: What is the subtitle of the new Avatar film?

option: The Way of Water

answer: 1

question: What is the more common name of cholelithiasis?

option: Gallstones

answer: 1

question: Which cricketer, who played 61 Tests for England from 1908-30, was known as “The Master”?

option: Jack Hobbs

answer: 1

question: What does the expression “put the cat among the pigeons” mean?

option: To cause trouble by doing or saying something

answer: 1

question: Of which two meals is brunch a combination?

option: Breakfast, lunch

answer: 1

question: In which country is the beach in the 2000 film The Beach?

option: Thailand

answer: 1

question: How many months have 31 days?

option: Seven

answer: 1

question: Name the Prime Minister of Israel.

option: Benjamin Netanyahu

answer: 1

question: Which US author had the middle name Munnerlyn?

option: Margaret Mitchell

answer: 1

question: Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli) was a character in which US television series?

option: The Sopranos

answer: 1

question: Who is Harry Potter’s godfather?

option: Sirius Black

answer: 1

question: Who is the youngest of Walt Disney’s seven dwarfs?

option: Dopey

answer: 1

question: On which Hawaiian island is Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano?

option: Hawaii

answer: 1

question: In the US television situation comedy series The Munsters, what was the name of Grandpa’s pet bat?

option: Igor

answer: 1

question: Who was the screen’s first Tarzan?

option: Elmo Lincoln

answer: 1

question: Which vulcanised rubber object used in ice hockey is referred to as a “biscuit”?

option: Puck

answer: 1

question: Which is coldest: the North or South Pole?

option: South Pole

answer: 1

question: Which English actor was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in 1933?

option: Michael Caine

answer: 1

question: Hofburg Palace is in which European city?

option: Vienna

answer: 1

question: Uttar Pradesh is which country’s most populated state?

option: India’s

answer: 1

question: What was the theme song of the US television situation comedy series Friends?

option: I’ll Be There For You

answer: 1

question: Name the four suits into which playing cards are divided.

option: Diamonds, hearts, clubs, spades

answer: 1

question: What is the largest occupied castle in the world?

option: Windsor Castle

answer: 1

question: What does a plangonologist collect?

option: Dolls

answer: 1

question: What sport do Los Angeles Lakers play?

option: Basketball

answer: 1

question: In Norse mythology, who was the god of thunder?

option: Thor

answer: 1

question: Name the two landlocked European countries which begin with L.

option: Liechtenstein, Luxembourg

answer: 1

question: How many states form the United States of America?

option: 50

answer: 1

question: How many wheels does a unicycle have?

option: One

answer: 1

question: What is the real first name of Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster?

option: Sid

answer: 1

question: Which US author was born Truman Streckfus Persons in New Orleans in 1924?

option: Truman Capote

answer: 1

question: What is half a dozen multiplied by 150?

option: 900

answer: 1

question: In the US TV situation comedy Laverne & Shirley, what was Laverne’s surname?

option: DeFazio

answer: 1

question: Which musical is set in the fictional town of Sweet Apple, Ohio?

option: Bye Bye Birdie

answer: 1

question: What is the capital city of Greece?

option: Athens

answer: 1

question: In ballet, what is a pas de quatre?

option: Dance for four people

answer: 1