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question: In navigation, what do the letters GPS stand for?

option: Global positioning system

answer: 1

question: Name the last film US actor James Dean made before his death in 1955.

option: Giant

answer: 1

question: “Lowest prices are just the beginning” is an advertising slogan of which Australian household hardware chain?

option: Bunnings

answer: 1

question: Who defeated Australian player Alex de Minaur in the fourth round of the Australian Open tennis championships on January 24?

option: Jannik Sinner

answer: 1

question: Who is Australia’s Trade Minister?

option: Dan Tehan

answer: 1

question: Who is the 2022 Australian of the Year?

option: Dylan Alcott

answer: 1

question: Name the octopus friend of The Wiggles.

option: Henry

answer: 1

question: Gerald Noritas was the proper name of which character in the Australian television situation comedy series Hey Dad!?

option: Nudge

answer: 1

question: How old was US singer Meat Loaf when he died on January 20?

option: 74

answer: 1

question: Name the children’s book, published in 1911, which begins “When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.”

option: The Secret Garden (by Frances Hodgson Burnett)

answer: 1

question: Which Commonwealth country has the longest coastline?

option: Canada

answer: 1

question: In which year did Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam open the Festival Theatre in Adelaide?

option: 1973

answer: 1

question: Name the disembodied hand in the 1960s television situation comedy series The Addams Family.

option: Thing

answer: 1

question: Former ABC broadcaster Ali Clarke has rejoined which Adelaide radio station?

option: Mix 102.3

answer: 1

question: Which country’s flag is a red disc on a green background?

option: Bangladesh

answer: 1

question: Who sang the 1992 hit Achy Breaky Heart?

option: Billy Ray Cyrus

answer: 1

question: In which year did Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band first perform in Adelaide?

option: 2014

answer: 1

question: Bishkek is the capital of which country?

option: Kyrgyzstan

answer: 1

question: Which Greek island has the highest population?

option: Crete

answer: 1

question: In the 1950s, which Australian biscuits were advertised as “often buttered never bettered”?

option: Arnott’s SAO

answer: 1

question: How many metres are in a kilometre?

option: 1000

answer: 1

question: What is removed in a cholecystectomy?

option: Gall bladder

answer: 1

question: What is scheduled to take place in Qatar from November 21 to December 18, 2022?

option: 2022 FIFA World Cup

answer: 1

question: To what did the front page headline “Vanished” in the Sunday Mail on March 9, 2014, refer?

option: Disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

answer: 1

question: In which 1987 film did US actor Patrick Swayze play dance instructor Johnny Castle?

option: Dirty Dancing

answer: 1

question: In which continent did the tomato originate?

option: South America

answer: 1

question: In which year was the first Adelaide Festival of Arts?

option: 1960

answer: 1

question: In which year did Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin become the first person to fly in space?

option: 1961

answer: 1

question: What is the more common name of the human body’s pollex?

option: Thumb

answer: 1

question: Who played Catwoman in the 1992 film Batman Returns?

option: Michelle Pfeiffer

answer: 1

question: How many pockets are on a standard snooker table?

option: Six

answer: 1

question: In which country is the world’s oldest desert?

option: Namibia

answer: 1

question: How many points is the letter K worth in an English-language edition of Scrabble?

option: Five

answer: 1

question: What is 11 cubed?

option: 1331

answer: 1

question: What did Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde call “the lowest form of wit”?

option: Sarcasm

answer: 1

question: Who was the inaugural coach of AFL team Port Adelaide?

option: John Cahill

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, who is the first of English children’s author Enid Blyton’s Famous Five?

option: Anne

answer: 1

question: How many star signs begin with the letter S?

option: Two (Scorpio, Sagittarius)

answer: 1

question: Measured by surface area, what is the world’s largest inland body of water?

option: Caspian Sea

answer: 1

question: Which English soccer team is nicknamed The Royals?

option: Reading

answer: 1

question: Which Harry Potter character had a terrifying pet snake called Nagini?

option: Lord Voldemort

answer: 1

question: How many bones are in a shark’s body?

option: None

answer: 1

question: What was the surname of fictional San Francisco police detective Dirty Harry?

option: Callahan

answer: 1

question: Which three American states begin and end with the letter A?

option: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona

answer: 1

question: Name the two countries which occupy the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.

option: Haiti, Dominican Republic

answer: 1

question: What colour is 25 on a roulette wheel?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: The Battle of Agincourt was fought during which war?

option: Hundred Years’ War

answer: 1

question: Where is the Marsh of Decay?

option: On the moon

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the Lone Ranger’s horse?

option: Silver

answer: 1

question: What nationality is tennis champion Novak Djokovic?

option: Serbian

answer: 1