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question: What colour is caster sugar?

option: White

answer: 1

question: What is the world’s largest active volcano?

option: Mauna Loa (in Hawaii)

answer: 1

question: Which country has the longest coastline?

option: Canada

answer: 1

question: The names of how many American states include the word “South”?

option: Two (South Carolina, South Dakota)

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 1982 children’s book The BFG?

option: Roald Dahl

answer: 1

question: Who was the first Indigenous Australian to win a world boxing title?

option: Lionel Rose

answer: 1

question: Name the Premier of Victoria.

option: Daniel Andrews

answer: 1

question: In which European country is Corriere della Sera a daily newspaper?

option: Italy

answer: 1

question: Which letter comes immediately after R in the English alphabet?

option: S

answer: 1

question: Unscramble these letters to name a two-word Adelaide suburb: VLEEGGOORDN.

option: Golden Grove

answer: 1

question: The central shield on the Australian Coat of Arms is supported by a kangaroo and which bird?

option: Emu

answer: 1

question: Proverbially, what is the best policy?

option: Honesty

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the song Send in the Clowns?

option: Stephen Sondheim

answer: 1

question: Alpacas are native to which continent?

option: South America

answer: 1

question: Is a light year a measure of distance or time?

option: Distance

answer: 1

question: Which country is the main setting of the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland?

option: Uganda

answer: 1

question: Punta del Este is a resort city in which South American country?

option: Uruguay

answer: 1

question: Who wrote the 2001 book Skipping Christmas?

option: John Grisham

answer: 1

question: What is the next prime number after 23?

option: 29

answer: 1

question: In which 2010 film did Australian singer Jessica Mauboy make her acting debut?

option: Bran Nue Dae

answer: 1

question: Who composed the opera Death in Venice?

option: Benjamin Britten

answer: 1

question: What was McGooley’s surname in the 1960s Australian television situation comedy series My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours?

option: Dominic

answer: 1

question: “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day” is the first line of which work by English poet Thomas Gray?

option: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

answer: 1

question: When looking forward, which side of a ship is starboard?

option: Right

answer: 1

question: In which year did Australian golfer Adam Scott win the US Masters?

option: 2013

answer: 1

question: In the 2006 film Borat, the title character comes from which country?

option: Kazakhstan

answer: 1

question: Name the lead singer of US rock band The Doors who died in 1971.

option: Jim Morrison

answer: 1

question: On which day of the week will New Year’s Day fall in 2023?

option: Sunday

answer: 1

question: XCIX are the Roman numerals for which number?

option: 99

answer: 1

question: Is the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius north or south of the Equator?

option: South

answer: 1

question: “My noble rite” is an anagram of which English author?

option: Emily Bronte

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of Portugal?

option: Lisbon

answer: 1

question: The song They Call the Wind Maria comes from which musical?

option: Paint Your Wagon

answer: 1

question: Which English author went missing for 11 days in 1926?

option: Agatha Christie

answer: 1

question: What is deglutition?

option: Swallowing

answer: 1

question: Name the Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter who died on November 30.

option: Christine McVie

answer: 1

question: What is Morocco’s most populous city?

option: Casablanca

answer: 1

question: Which Australian actor played Pontius Pilate in the 1959 film Ben-Hur?

option: Frank Thring

answer: 1

question: Which expression is used when tossing the coins in a game of two-up?

option: Come in spinner

answer: 1

question: Nashville is the capital of which American state?

option: Tennessee

answer: 1

question: The port city of Gdansk is in which country?

option: Poland

answer: 1

question: The adjective “porcine” refers to which animal?

option: Pig

answer: 1

question: Which English county did author Virginia Woolf describe as the “loveliest place in the world”?

option: Cornwall

answer: 1

question: Multiply 345 by 678.

option: 233,910

answer: 1

question: Guernica is a famous painting by which artist?

option: Pablo Picasso

answer: 1

question: What is the symbol of the chemical element uranium?

option: U

answer: 1

question: A tetrahedron has how many triangular faces?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: Who is Port Adelaide’s only Norm Smith Medallist?

option: Byron Pickett

answer: 1

question: What does the Latin word “tempus” mean in English?

option: Time

answer: 1

question: What is bardolatry?

option: Excessive admiration of William Shakespeare

answer: 1