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How old was Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts when he died last week? Photo: Eric Feferberg / AFP.

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question: How old was Charlie Watts, drummer for The Rolling Stones, when he died last month?

option: 80

answer: 1

question: Who is No.18 for AFL club Port Adelaide?

option: Zak Butters

answer: 1

question: In which year did the first official Summer Paralympic Games take place?

option: 1960 (Rome)

answer: 1

question: The guanaco, an animal closely related to the llama, is native to which continent?

option: South America

answer: 1

question: William Massey was which country’s prime minister from 1912-25?

option: New Zealand’s

answer: 1

question: Which US president died in 2006?

option: Gerald Ford

answer: 1

question: Which Chaser in The Chase Australia on Channel 7 is nicknamed Supernerd?

option: Issa Schultz

answer: 1

question: Hogget meat comes from which animal?

option: Sheep

answer: 1

question: A triennium is a period of how many years?

option: Three

answer: 1

question: What was the name of the Lone Ranger’s faithful Native American companion?

option: Tonto

answer: 1

question: Which country is known as the Pearl of Africa?

option: Uganda

answer: 1

question: A tennis Grand Slam comprises how many tournaments in the same calendar season?

option: Four

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, who was the first of Alexandre Dumas’ three musketeers?

option: Aramis

answer: 1

question: Who played the title character in the Rocky films?

option: Sylvester Stallone

answer: 1

question: In astronomy, what do the letters SMBH stand for?

option: Supermassive black hole

answer: 1

question: The Yankee Clipper was a nickname of which US baseball player?

option: Joe DiMaggio

answer: 1

question: What is the capital of the Solomon Islands?

option: Honiara

answer: 1

question: In which 1973 hit does US vocalist Carly Simon, below, sing about a “total eclipse of the sun”?

option: You’re So Vain

answer: 1

question: What is the official language of the African nation of Angola?

option: Portuguese

answer: 1

question: In the book Lord of the Flies by English author William Golding, which boy wears glasses?

option: Piggy

answer: 1

question: What is the name of the game show in a television commercial for Athena Home Loans?

option: Take Me Home Loan

answer: 1

question: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is the subtitle of which play by Oscar Wilde?

option: The Importance of Being Earnest

answer: 1

question: Who played cannibalistic serial killer Dr Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs?

option: Anthony Hopkins

answer: 1

question: Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka lost in which round of the women’s singles at the recent Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

option: Third

answer: 1

question: Geri Halliwell was which Spice Girl?

option: Ginger Spice

answer: 1

question: What colour is liquid oxygen?

option: Blue

answer: 1

question: What is the world’s most populous country?

option: China

answer: 1

question: What is the sum of all the odd numbers between 10 and 20 inclusive?

option: 75

answer: 1

question: Name the third Harry Potter book.

option: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

answer: 1

question: Lake Toba, the largest volcanic lake in the world, is in which country?

option: Indonesia

answer: 1

question: In the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty, who couldn’t put the title character together again?

option: “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men”

answer: 1

question: Name the first Australian to swim the English Channel.

option: Linda McGill

answer: 1

question: Who sang the 2013 hit All Of Me?

option: John Legend

answer: 1

question: Alphabetically, which is the first of the four Jovian planets?

option: Jupiter

answer: 1

question: In which city is Ginza a popular upscale shopping district?

option: Tokyo

answer: 1

question: What is US singer Britney Spears’ middle name?

option: Jean

answer: 1

question: What is the French word for “but”?

option: Mais

answer: 1

question: In the US television series Monk, what was the title character’s first name?

option: Adrian

answer: 1

question: Name the winner of the 2009 Melbourne Cup.

option: Shocking

answer: 1

question: In which country were the Buddhas of Bamiyan statues destroyed by the Taliban in 2001?

option: Afghanistan

answer: 1

question: Who founded the Australian financial services company MyBudget?

option: Tammy Barton

answer: 1

question: Which television family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights?

option: The Munsters

answer: 1

question: In which country is the Great Pyramid of Giza?

option: Egypt

answer: 1

question: What colour is the letter “e” in the Google logo?

option: Red

answer: 1

question: A deficiency of which vitamin causes scurvy?

option: C

answer: 1

question: What is the seventh sign of the zodiac?

option: Libra

answer: 1

question: Which hit by The Beatles begins “I once had a girl”?

option: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

answer: 1

question: Which planet was thought for many years to have artificially made canals on its surface?

option: Mars

answer: 1

question: How many minutes are in 40 hours?

option: 2400

answer: 1

question: In which South Australian city was former AFL player Eddie Betts born in 1986?

option: Port Lincoln

answer: 1