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question: What is a young lion called?

option: Cub

answer: 1

question: How many oars are used in a quad scull rowing boat?

option: Eight

answer: 1

question: What is the sum total of the five odd numbers between 20 and 30 inclusive?

option: 125

answer: 1

question: Name the winner of the 2021 Adelaide Cup.

option: Good Idea

answer: 1

question: Which US television personality interviewed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex earlier this month?

option: Oprah Winfrey

answer: 1

question: In which year did the Adelaide Aquatic Centre open at North Adelaide – 1959, 1969 or 1979?

option: 1969

answer: 1

question: Kim Campbell was the first female prime minister of which country?

option: Canada

answer: 1

question: Often mentioned in COVID-19 stories, what do the letters PPE stand for?

option: Personal protective equipment

answer: 1

question: The Kiss is a famous painting by which Austrian artist?

option: Gustav Klimt

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the armadillo mascot of the 2014 FIFA World Cup?

option: Fuleco

answer: 1

question: Medecins Sans Frontieres is known by what English name?

option: Doctors Without Borders

answer: 1

question: Who is the senior coach of AFL club Adelaide?

option: Matthew Nicks

answer: 1

question: Which sea is colloquially called “the Ditch”?

option: Tasman Sea

answer: 1

question: Who announced her resignation from Channel 7’s breakfast program Sunrise on March 8?

option: Samantha Armytage

answer: 1

question: What was the maiden name of English author Mary Shelley?

option: Godwin

answer: 1

question: Ghor, Khost, Kunar and Farah are provinces of which country?

option: Afghanistan

answer: 1

question: Who directed the 1954 film Rear Window?

option: Alfred Hitchcock

answer: 1

question: What is the nickname of the Australian men’s hockey team?

option: Kookaburras

answer: 1

question: Name the Premier of New South Wales.

option: Gladys Berejiklian

answer: 1

question: In which 1993 film did Uma Thurman’s character, Sissy Hankshaw, have enormously large thumbs?

option: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

answer: 1

question: Which animal features in the logo of the English Premier League?

option: Lion

answer: 1

question: What does the adjective “cruciform” mean?

option: Having the shape of a cross

answer: 1

question: Who composed the Eroica symphony?

option: Ludwig van Beethoven

answer: 1

question: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel prize?

option: Marie Curie (Physics, 1903)

answer: 1

question: Who is Australia’s Finance Minister?

option: Simon Birmingham

answer: 1

question: Who is the author of the new book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need?

option: Bill Gates

answer: 1

question: Where in the human body is the thyroid gland?

option: Neck

answer: 1

question: What is the fifth element of the periodic table?

option: Boron

answer: 1

question: “Shaking palsy” became known as which disease?

option: Parkinson’s disease

answer: 1

question: The world’s longest land border is between which two countries?

option: US, Canada

answer: 1

question: Who won the inaugural Allan Border Medal for outstanding Australian male cricketer?

option: Glenn McGrath

answer: 1

question: What is claustrophobia?

option: Fear of confined spaces

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the play The Merchant of Venice?

option: William Shakespeare

answer: 1

question: How many people served as prime minister of Australia between 1990-99?

option: Three (Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard)

answer: 1

question: Rodrigo Duterte is President of which country?

option: The Philippines

answer: 1

question: Multiply the number of days in 2020 by the number of days in 2021.

option: 133,590 (366 x 365)

answer: 1

question: In which year was the first Xbox home video game console released in the US?

option:

answer: 1

question: What is the colour of the scarf in the 1972 Carly Simon hit You’re So Vain?

option: Apricot

answer: 1

question: Which planet in our solar system has the highest amount of gravity?

option: Jupiter

answer: 1

question: Valleys of Neptune was a 2010 posthumous compilation album by which US rock guitarist?

option: Jimi Hendrix

answer: 1

question: In the nursery rhyme The Farmer in the Dell, what does the cow take?

option: The dog

answer: 1

question: Who was the inaugural captain of AFL club Port Adelaide?

option: Gavin Wanganeen

answer: 1

question: Who was the first female governor of an Australian state?

option: Dame Roma Mitchell (South Australia)

answer: 1

question: Which of North America’s five Great Lakes begins with H?

option: Huron

answer: 1

question: How old is tennis champion Roger Federer?

option: 39

answer: 1

question: How many racing cars are in the standard version of the children’s board game Monza?

option: Six

answer: 1

question: What sport do the New York Rangers play?

option: Ice Hockey

answer: 1

question: A molecule of ozone contains how many oxygen atoms bound together?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Sweden?

option: Stockholm

answer: 1

question: How many points is the blue ball worth in a game of snooker?

option: Five

answer: 1