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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 4 January
2008
This week’s subject is seas and oceans.
(1) In what countries are the Black, Red, White and Yellow
Seas?
(2) Is the area of the Pacific Ocean larger than the United
States and Europe combined?
(3) Where does the Tasman Sea meet the Pacific Ocean?
(4) Victoria’s Great Ocean Road has stunning Southern
Ocean scenery, including the island rock formations known
as the Twelve Apostles. How many Twelve Apostles are there?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 28 December
2007
This week we have a really exciting subject for you –
mathematical definitions.
(1) How does the Concise Oxford Dictionary define the word
"thirteen"?
(2) For what was the definition "the distance travelled
by a beam of light in a vacuum in one 299 792 458th of a second"
adopted internationally in 1983? (a) one kilometre (b) one
mile (c) it was just a nonsense dreamed up by the BBC’s
Science Scene.
(3) Of what is the inch one five hundred-millionth? (a) the
earth’s polar diameter (b) the distance travelled by
a beam of light in a vacuum in one 299 792 458th of a second
(c) the width of the English Channel at its narrowest point
(4) What is the Roman numeral for zero? (a) O (b) they didn’t
have one
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 21 December 2007
This week’s subject is 2007 highlights
(1) What did Ethiopia celebrate in September 2007, several
years late according to us?
(2) How many skips were proven on video in 2007 for a Guinness
Book of Records world record for skipping stones on water?
(a) 11 (b) 21 (c) 61
(3) What inflation rate did Zimbabwe achieve in 2007? (a)
down to 1% (b) a steady 9.5% (c) 3007%
(4) In their 16 games in the 2007 season, Australia’s
Wollondilly White Waratahs rugby team had not scored a point,
and had had 1864 points scored against them. What happened
in the last five minutes of their last match?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 14 December
2007
This week’s subject is Christmas
(1) What did the General Court of Massachusetts ban in 1659?
(a) observance of Christmas (b) drinking alcoholic beverages
in public (c) having cats as pets
(2) How many "White Christmases" has Australia
had? (a) none (b) three (c) over 200
(3) On what day of the year was Jesus born?
(4) To what population group did police in Holbeck, Leeds,
England, send their 1997 Christmas cards? (a) burglars (b)
politicians (c) church ministers
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 7 December
2007
John Howard last week became the first Australian prime minister
for 80 years to lose his seat in an election. He is this week’s
subject.
(1) For many years, the deputy leader of the Liberal Party,
Peter Costello, was upset because the prime minister, John
Howard, had blocked his opportunity to be leader of Australia.
What is Mr Costello’s middle name?
(2) When Mr Howard introduced a goods and services tax after
having promised not to do so, how did he explain the move?
(a) times have changed (b) I was misquoted (c) it was not
a core promise
(3) Did the brothers of Liberal Party leaders John Howard
and Peter Costello also support the Liberal Party?
(4) What was the occupation of the candidate who beat John
Howard in the 2007 election?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 30 November
2007
Australia had a federal election on 24 November, so Australian
elections is our subject for this week.
(1) Which of the following was banned from running in the
2001 Australian federal election but was eligible for following
elections following an amendment allowing names changed by
deed poll? (a) Jason MeTerrorist (b) Nigel Freemarijuana (c)
Alison Noban Ecstacy
(2) Who challenged retired businessman Lynn Standfield for
One Nation preselection for the seat of Lyne in the 2004 federal
election? (a) his wife, Joan (b) Pauline Hanson (c) Colleen
Blanch, later revealed to have been three years old
(3) How many parties contested the 1998 Australian federal
election? (a) 6 (b) 8 (c) 86
(4) How many of Deadly Serious Party, Australian Recreation
and Fishing Party, Taxi Operators Political Service (Oceania)
and Weekend Trading Party were parties contesting the 1998
Australian federal election?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 23 November
2007
If our trivia questions have driven you nuts, this week’s
subject is especially for you. It’s psychology.
(1) What do polls show that Americans fear most?
(2) Of what is keraunothnetophobia a fear? (a) satellites
plunging to earth (b) trivia questions (c) ingrown toenails
(3) Of what do you think phronemophobia is a fear?
(4) Of what is pantophobia a fear? (a) monkeys wearing red
baseball caps and carrying new umbrellas (b) opening refrigerator
doors (c) being run over by semi-trailers driven by elderly
ladies (d) all of the above
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 16 November
2007
This week’s subject is surnames worldwide.
(1) Who was the first victim of a boycott?
(2) What is the most common surname worldwide? (a) Chan (b)
Smith (c) Yen
(3) Donald Death jnr, 60, of Locust Valley, New York, USA,
was charged in April 2005 with stealing $US300,000. From where
did he steal it? (a) a cemetery (b) a prison office, next
to a gallows (c) Fort Knox
(4) Where would you find Erica Morningstar?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 9 November
2007
The first Tuesday in November is the day for Australia’s
famous horse race, the Melbourne Cup. That is this week’s
subject.
(1) What has been the other occupation of twice Melbourne
Cup winner, jockey Darren Beadman?
(2) What was Victoria’s Melbourne Cup Day holiday originally
called? (a) Racing Day (b) Fortune Day (c) Sunday School Picnic
Day
(3) What time did the NSW Government choose to release its
controversial 30,000-page contract with the builders of the
Cross City Tunnel?
(4) What does the name of Melbourne Cup winner Phar Lap mean?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 2 November
2007
This week’s subject is first (given) names.
(1) Since 2005, what has been the most common first name
for baby boys in Brussels, Belgium?
(2) What is Zambian boxer Makina’s precious first name?
(3) What were the given names of Madam Tusaud, Frankenstein,
Clouseau, Rambo, Jekyll and Liberace?
(4) How would you explain this finding after only two questions
by a detective in an area of Bali with tens of thousands of
people? Detective: “Was the offender a tourist or born
here?” Witness: “Born here.” Detective:
“How many brothers and sisters has he?” Witness:
“He has no brothers or sisters.” Detective: “It
must have been Wayan then.”
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 26 October
2007
This week’s subject is geometry. (Yes, even geometry
can be a bit of fun.)
(1) What shape is a grain of salt?
(2) What is the shortest route for an ant to take from a
top corner of a cube to the opposite bottom corner?
(3) What method allows you to draw an egg-shaped object?
(4) How far away is the horizon if you are standing at sea
level?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 19 October
2007
The internet is our subject for this week.
(1) What is the most commonly-used password on computer systems?
(2) What internet activity has been Nigeria’s biggest
foreign currency earner?
(3) What was the first email message? (a) Will you marry
me? (b) qwertyuiop
(4) What does the “http” before web addresses
stand for?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 12 October
2007
This week’s subject is chemistry
(1) What is the chemical symbol for ice?
(2) How can sand be made invisible?
(3) How big a dose of anthrax is needed to kill someone?
(4) Zymurgy is a branch of applied chemistry. What is special
about this word?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 12 October
2007
This week’s subject is chemistry
(1) What is the chemical symbol for ice?
(2) How can sand be made invisible?
(3) How big a dose of anthrax is needed to kill someone?
(4) Zymurgy is a branch of applied chemistry. What is
special about this word?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 5 October
2007
This week’s subject is elementary logic.
(1) Which of the leopard, bat and owl sees most clearly in
total darkness?
(2) How was Sheriff Tom Jones able to ride into town on Friday,
stay three nights and leave early Sunday morning?
(3) How was a prisoner able to survive 10 weeks in a cell
without water, and with a 20cm thick steel door between him
and a fresh water well in the next cell?
(4) Aron Ralston, who had climbed 49 of Colorado’s
4200m peaks, was trapped for six days in Canyonlands National
Park in Utah when he was pinned by a 400kg boulder that shifted
on to his right arm. Clearly he could not move the boulder
and no-one else could come to help him. His only equipment
was ropes, anchors and a pocket knife and his water was almost
exhausted. How did he free himself?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 28 September
2007
This week’s subject is cricket.
(1) Which of the following applied to Kenya’s team
in the ICC Twenty20 match in Durban on 12 September 2007?
(a) They were three down for 0 (b) The first four batsmen
scored 0 (c) Six batsmen scored 0 (d) Seven batsmen had surnames
starting with O (e) The first three bowlers had surnames starting
and ending with O (f) all of the above
(2) Who won Cricket NSW’s inaugural Steve Waugh Medal
for the outstanding player of the 2002-2003 season?
(3) Greg Blewett unfortunately was out for 99 in a test match
against the West Indies in 1997. What was his highest score
in the tests against New Zealand the same year?
(4) New Zealand fast bowler Geoff Allott said he hoped for
a place in the record books, but was surprised when he entered
the records for batting. He batted for 101 minutes at Eden
Park on 2 March 1999 against South Africa. What was his score?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 21 September
2007
This week’s subject is multiple marriages.
(1) Marriage counsellor Glynn de Moss Wolfe's 29 marriages
made him the world-record holder for most-married man. What
world record did his last wife, Linda Essex-Wolfe, hold?
(2) How did comedian Stan Laurel get on with his second and
third wives after he separated from them?
(3) Why did Ukrainian Vanda Vorotova not keep any contact
with seven of her eight husbands?
(4) How many children does Utah resident Tom Green have?
(a) 12 (b) 15 (c) 33
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 21 September
2007
This week’s subject is multiple marriages.
(1) Marriage counsellor Glynn de Moss Wolfe's 29 marriages
made him the world-record holder for most-married man. What
world record did his last wife, Linda Essex-Wolfe, hold?
(2) How did comedian Stan Laurel get on with his second
and third wives after he separated from them?
(3) Why did Ukrainian Vanda Vorotova not keep any contact
with seven of her eight husbands?
(4) How many children does Utah resident Tom Green have?
(a) 12 (b) 15 (c) 33
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 14 September
2007
Leaders of countries around the Pacific have just finished
talks in Sydney. This week’s subject is quotes from
former heads of three of the countries that were represented
at the talks.
(1) When asked by an Australian reporter how he felt about
so many New Zealanders leaving his country to live in Australia,
which New Zealand Prime Minister replied “It’s
good. It’s improving the average IQ of both countries”?
(2) What American president said to his wife after being
wounded by a would-be assassin’s bullet: “Sorry,
honey, I forgot to duck.”?
(3) Why did President Reagan announce that he was going to
start bombing Moscow in five minutes?
(4) When an interjector at a political rally called out,
"Tell us all you know, Bob, it will only take a minute",
what Australian prime minister replied: “ I’ll
tell you all we both know. It won’t take any longer.”?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 7 September
2007
A fortnight ago a full eclipse of the moon was observed in
several countries, including here in Australia. The moon is
this week’s subject.
(1) What is receding from Earth at the rate of 2½cm
each year?
(2) How much longer does the moon take to circle the Earth
each year than it did the previous year? (a) less than a minute
(b) it takes exactly the same time
(3) What makes a blue moon look different from other full
moons?
(4) Can the Apollo astronauts’ footprints remain on
the moon much longer?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 31 August
2007
With the US Tennis Open under way, it is the subject of this
week’s questions.
(1) How many former US Open women’s singles champions
are contesting this year’s title?
(2) Why was Renee Richards barred from the 1977 US Open Women's
Singles?
(3) On what surface did Jimmy Connors win the US singles?
(4) Who was the first unseeded lady to win the US singles?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 24 August
2007
This week’s subject is Alan’s old school, Sydney
Boys’ High, and its rugby team.
(1) St Joseph’s First XV rugby union team beat Sydney
Boys’ High School’s First XV by 114-0 on 10 August
2002. By what score did St Joseph’s beat Sydney High’s
Second XV on the same day? (Yes, go for it. Co-incidences
happen.)
(2) Four days after their 114-0 loss to St Joseph’s,
only eight of their 34-player squad attended Sydney Boys’
High’s scheduled training session at Centennial Park.
Why did the other 26 not attend?
(3) A decade ago, how many rugby teams did St Joseph’s,
Hunters Hill, have playing each Saturday afternoon? (a) 2
(b) 30 (c) 40
(4) Was Sydney Boys’ High School’s top rugby
team successful in its first six matches of 2007?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 17 August
2007
Following the collapse of the Minneapolis bridge
earlier this month, this week’s subject is bridges.
(1) The opening ceremony on the new suspension bridge at
Aucayacu in Peru was attended by local dignitaries who cheered
and popped champagne bottles. For how long was the bridge
in service before it collapsed? (Keep your guess short.)
(2) The town Ironbridge in England is named after its bridge,
the oldest of its type in the world. Of what is its bridge
made? (a) iron (b) steel (c) wood
(3) How many of the 29 bridges spanning the Rhine were destroyed
in World War II?
(4) The 113-metre Aberfeldy Golf Club bridge in the UK is
the longest bridge of its type in the world. Of what is it
made? (a) wood (b) steel (c) plastic
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 10 August
2007
With the Tour de France just finished, that is this week’s
subject.
(1) Where did the 2007 Tour de France start?
(2) Why were approximately half of the 1998 Tour de France
contestants disqualified?
(3) What did Lance Armstrong achieve after winning a battle
with what was believed to be extensive terminal cancer?
(4) From what country did the second-placegetter in last
week’s Tour de France come?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 3 August 2007
This week’s subject is travel by air.
(1) Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph offered readers the chance
to win a trip to Mars. How was it able to do this?
(2) What record did pioneer aviator Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith,
the first person to fly across the Pacific, set for Sydney
to Melbourne?
(3) What city has the most people travelling to work by helicopter?
(a) New York (b) Sao Paulo (c) Warsaw
(4) Between what two airports is the world’s shortest
intercontinental commercial flight?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 27 July 2007
This week’s subject is world flags.
(1) Besides green, what colours and designs comprise the
Libyan flag?
(2) The US flag has 50 stars, representing the 50 states.
How many stripes does it have, and what do they represent?
(3) What is the origin of the Red Cross symbol?
(4) What is unusual about the flags of Indonesia and Monaco?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 20 July 2007
This week’s subject is the America’s Cup
(1) What is the longest winning streak in major sport?
(2) What is the world's oldest sporting trophy?
(3) What is incongruous about Switzerland winning the America’s
Cup in 2003 and retaining it this month?
(4) What sport did Henry Beard and Roy McKie define as “the
fine art of getting wet and becoming ill while slowly going
nowhere at great expense”?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 13 July 2007
This week’s subject is carnivores:
(1) What non-contact defensive weapon is used by the American
animal of the genus "Mephitis"?
(2) In what does a fox wrap itself to keep warm?
(3) Most herbivores rise rear feet first. What do carnivores
do?
(4) What is the quietest sound that can be heard by the world’s
smallest fox, the fennec? (a) a cockroach running on sand
(b) a lion roaring 10m away
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 6 July 2007
This week’s subject is world finance:
(1) You know who Sri Muda Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah
DK, PSPNB, PSNB, PSLJ, SPBM, PANB is, don’t you? What
world record did he hold until Bill Gates took over?
(2) The company owned by the brother of the Sultan of Brunei
was found to have lost up to 27 billion dollars. What portfolio
did he once hold in the Brunei ministry?
(3) The assets of the world’s three richest people
exceed the combined GDP of how many of the world’s poorest
countries? (a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 48
(4) Gail Kelly, chief executive of Australia’s St George
Bank, has how many triplets?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 29 June 2007
Golf’s US Men’s Open is over and Women’s
Open about to start, so this week’s subject is golf.
(1) Approximately 10 per cent of people are left-handed,
yet more than 20 per cent of major tennis titles are won by
left-handers. What about golf majors?
(2) Has Scott Draper been a professional golfer or tennis
player?
(3) What did Birdie Kim shoot on her final hole to win the
2005 US Open?
(4) What distinguishes Alexis Thompson in this week’s
US Women’s Open?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 22 June 2007
This week’s subject is molluscs
(1) Within a margin of 1kmh, at what speed does a snail move?
(2) An octopus has how many hearts? (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3
(3) What shape is the pupil of an octopus’ eye?
(4) What is the defence tactic of a frightened octopus?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 15 June 2007
This week’s subject is Australian industry
(1) The world’s smallest gas cylinders were made in
Australia exactly 10 years ago. Could 25,500 of them fit into
two garbage trucks?
(2) What does “made in Australia” tell you about
the country of origin of the product’s ingredients?
(3) How was the stationery store W. C. Penfold’s delivering
orders to customers in the centre of Sydney city in 2004?
(4) Does Lindsay Fox own a truck?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 8 June 2007
It would not be out of place for a web site such as ours
to have some trivia questions on walking. So here goes for
this week:
(1) The material "Eco Fleece" (survival clothing
for cold weather bushwalking) is 80 per cent made from (a)
grass (b) headache tablets that have passed their use-by date
(c) PET soft drink bottles
(2) In the 1950s, the fine for jaywalking in New York City
was $2. How much was the fine 50 years later?
(3) Why do many elderly people in Asia walk backwards? (a)
mental reason (b) through fear of attack from behind (c) religious
reason (d) medical reason
(4) Thousands participated in a 2.7km walk between the Sydney
suburbs Arncliffe and Mascot in 1999. Why were they not at
all interested in the weather forecast for the period of their
walk?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 1 June 2007
With the 2007 French Open tennis getting under way, that
is our subject for this week
(1) How many times has the winner of the French men’s
singles been beaten in the first round the following year?
(2) Why was 30 May 2000 a special day in the French Open?
(a) it was the only day in the history of the French Open
when no matches could be played because of rain (b) it was
the first use of instant replay of disputed calls for umpires
(c) a trial, soon abandoned, was held of counting let serves
as being in play
(3) Two left-handers met in the 2005 men’s singles
final. When was the previous occasion? (a) 1946 (b) 2004
(4) And a general clay-court question: In the lead-up to
this year’s French championships, Nadal was beaten by
Federer to end his 81 consecutive wins on clay. If your opponents
were of the same standard as you, what would be your chances
of winning 81 consecutive times? (a) less than 1 in 200 (b)
about 1 in a thousand (c) 1 in about 1 followed by 24 zeros
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 25 May 2007
This week’s subject is world rivers.
(1) How many rivers are there in Alaska? (a) thousands of
lakes but only one river (b) 50, the same number as the “50th
state” (c) 3000
(2) How many of Europe's 10 longest rivers are in the former
USSR?
(3) By the time it reaches the sea, how many litres of water
is discharged per second by the Colorado River, which formed
and now flows through the Grand Canyon?
(4) How many rivers flow into Lake Nicaragua? (a) 4 (b) 5
(c) 45
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 18 May 2007
This week’s subject is animal food.
(1) For how many hours a day do elephants eat? (a) 3 (b)
6 (c) 18
(2) What do rabbits eat to help them stay alive during bad
weather periods when their normal food sources are unavailable?
(3) What is the animal kingdom’s fussiest eater?
(4) Which drinks more on an average day: a baby koala in
its coastal tree habitat or an adult meerkat in its African
desert habitat?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 11 May 2007
With all the discussion about whether Prince Harry should
lead his troop in Iraq, it’s time for some British royalty
questions.
(1) Henry VI, the youngest king of England, became king at
what age? (a) eight days (b) eight months (c) eight years
(2) What was King George VI's first name? (a) Albert (b)
George (c) Gorgeous
(3) Why did Britain's King George I and his prime minister,
Robert Walpole, converse only in Latin?
(4) At age 94 the Queen Mother had a hip replaced by a male
surgeon. In 1997, at age 97, she had another hip replacement
operation, this time by a female surgeon. How were the surgeons
related?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 4 May 2007
With the cricket world cup drawing to a close, this week’s
subject is cricket.
(1) How could a team win a cricket match by batting for five
seconds and without hitting a ball? King's College Choir School
did that against Trophy Boys XI at Cambridge.
(2) What occupation did West Indies cricketer Wes Hall take
up after his sporting career? (a) jail inmate (b) church minister
(c) manufacturer of chinaware
(3) What are the first names of the Sri Lankan cricketer
whose surname is Amunugama?
(4) How many balls were bowled in the longest over in test
cricket history? (a) 10 (b) 12 (c) 15
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 27 April 2007
Following the American student’s killing of 32 people
at the beginning of the week, this week’s subject is
murder.
(1) What category of people were discovered by a 1995 study
in Finland by the Department of Forensic Psychiatry to be
the people most likely to commit a murder?
(2) Where are most Japanese shot dead? (a) in their homes
(b) on the street (c) outside Japan
(3) What happened to murderer David Herman the day after
he was saved from a suicide attempt in Dallas in April 1997?
(4) What did the English painter Richard Dadd do to his Dad?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 20 April 2007
Our web site has a toilets section, so it’s about time
we had some toilet trivia questions.
(1) In a row of toilet cubicle, which one should you use?
(2) From a choice of kitchen chopping board, sink and toilet
seat, on which should food be prepared to minimise bacteria
contamination?
(3) How do toilets in El Salvador save you time?
(4) What unusual service provided by people on tricycles
was introduced in China’s northern provincial capital,
Taiyuan, a decade ago?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 13 April 2007
This week’s subject is spiders.
(1) What colour is a spider’s blood?
(2) How many eyes do spiders have?
(3) What does the female black widow spider do after having
sex?
(4) Insects get stuck to a spider's web. Why doesn't the
web get stuck to the spider?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 6 April 2007
This week’s subject is elections.
(1) Where did Mick Gallagher, former Hornsby (Sydney) mayor
and independent candidate for last month's New South Wales
(Australia) election, spend the morning of polling day? (a)
in bed (b) visiting every polling booth in the electorate
(c) in a police cell
(2) How many of the following were political parties contesting
the (1999) NSW election? Gay and Lesbian Party, Make Billionaires
Pay More Tax!, No Nuclear Waste Dumps Party, Re-elect Ivan
Peich People’s Envoy, Animal Liberation Party, Four
Wheel Drive Party, Women's Party, Abolish State Governments,
Mick Gallagher for Australia, Outside Newcastle Sydney and
Wollongong Party, Stop The Banks Ripping Us Off, What's Doing?
Party, Sack Them All, Timbarra Clean Water Party, Give Criminals
Longer Sentences, Three Day Weekend Party, Marijuana Smokers
Rights Party
(3) What political right do 15-year-olds have in Iran that
they don’t have in Australia?
(4) What was the first country to give women the right to
vote? (a) England (b) USA (c) New Zealand
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 30 March 2007
This week’s subject is alcohol around the world.
(1) How many litres of beer does the average person in India
drink in a week? (a) less than one (b) 5 (c) 12
(2) What is unusual about the way the English drink their
beer?
(3) In what month is Germany’s Oktoberfest?
(4) Cognac is associated with which French town?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 23 March 2007
This week’s subject is marriage around the world.
(1) What have ethnic minorities in Romania not been allowed
to do when they remarry? (a) drink alcohol (b) use their own
language (c) work in executive government positions
(2) How many brothers and sisters does King Mswati III, ruler
of Swaziland, have? (a) 10 (b) 100 (c) 600
(3) Sean Stewart was a heavy smoker and drinker, and his
de facto was soon to have his child. What made him unusual
for a British person? (a) he was a health worker (b) his age
(c) he is blind and deaf
(4) Iranian Yar-Mohammad divorced his bride, Shirin, after
only two months of marriage. What was the average age of the
two? (a) 5.5 (b) 55 (c) 105
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 16 March 2007
This week’s subject is Snail Mail
(1) What shape was the most unusual stamp issued by Tonga?
(a) triangular (b) circular (c) banana
(2) What Sydney GPO box number did Singapore Airlines proudly
obtain? (a) 000 (b) 999 (c) 747
(3) How was the first air mail sent? (a) by air (b) by train
(c) by sea
(4) How many two-cent stamps are there in a dozen?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 9 March 2007
This week’s subject is the internet.
(1) Who owns the internet?
(2) Who invented the internet?
(3) Which site scored highest on Internet company Altodigital’s
world survey of the most boring web sites? (a) guide to the
world’s finest electricity pylons (b) picture library
of Ukrainian bus shelters (c) Traffic Cone Preservation Society
(4) What is on the site www.purple.com?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 2 March 2007
This week’s subject is water.
(1) What was top in two poll results released in mid-February
on what voters consider the most important matters for approaching
elections?
(2) One of the boats in which Bass and Flinders explored
the Australian coastline was named "Tom Thumb".
What was their other boat called?
(3) “The World” has 110 apartments (priced from
$US2.25 million to $US7.5 million), 88 luxury hotel rooms,
four restaurants, spa, gym, nightclub, casino, library, swimming
pools and tennis court. Where is it?
(4) Why is the basilisk lizard in Central America known as
the "Jesus Christ lizard"?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 23 February
2007
This week's subject is the names of capital cities
(1) What is the capital of Singapore?
(2) What does the name Seoul, the South Korean capital, mean?
(3) What is the name of the capital of Nauru, the world's
smallest republic?
(4) What letters are missing from the name of the capital
of Mongolia, Ul**nb**t*r?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 16 February
2007
This week’s subject is world diseases and illnesses.
(1) What is the number one killer in Africa? (a) AIDS (b)
lions (c) mosquitoes
(2) Why does the human body not develop immunity from the
common cold?
(3) What is considered rude behaviour in South Korea? (a)
blowing your nose in a public place (b) eating before drinking
(c) wearing sunscreen in winter
(4) What is the only human disease ever officially declared
eradicated?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 9 February
2007
Lighning is this week’s subject.
(1) What happened to the Jefferson, Louisiana, tomb of cowboy
star Buck Taylor, who was killed by lightning?
(2) What causes more deaths—lightning strikes or kicks
from donkeys?
(3) Park ranger Roy Sullivan of Virginia, USA, was struck
by lightning a record seven times. How did he die?
(4) According to Professor Walter Connor, of the University
of Michigan, are men more likely than women to be struck by
lightning?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 2 February
2007
This week’s subject is telephones around the world.
(1) To the nearest 50, how many phones are there per 1 000
people in Niger?
(2) What is unique about Iceland telephone directories? (a)
They are printed on luminous paper so they can be read more
easily during the 24 hour darkness in winter. (b) As no town
in the country has more than 25 telephones, the directories
are never more than a single sheet of paper. (c) Entries are
listed alphabetically according to first names, not surnames.
(3) The Norfolk Island telephone directory is full of Bounty
mutineers’ family names, such as Christian, Adams, Quintal
and McCoy. How are those with the same surname distinguished
from each other? (a) by initials, as in normal telephone books
(b) by age (c) by their nicknames, such as “Lettuce
Leaf”, “Boof”, Spuddy”, “Diddles”
and “Rubber Duck”
(4) Barry Maunder of Twickenham, UK, had a phone number one
digit different from that of an internationally-known company.
Worse still, phone books in Japan, USA, Colombia and the UK
mistakenly listed his number instead of the company. He received
11,000 wrong calls, a record considered for the Guinness Book
of Records. What is the company?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 26 January
2007
The Australian Open tennis championships is in its second
week. This “grand slam” event is this week’s
subject.
(1) What contestant in the Australian women’s singles
this month has a two-letter surname?
(2) Ken Rosewall became the youngest winner of the Australian
men’s singles at 18 in 1953. Who is the oldest winner
of this title?
(3) How did both Mark Edmonson and Vita Gerulaitis win the
Australian Open Men’s Singles in 1977?
(4) When did an Australian last win his country’s singles
title?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 19 January
2007
Following Australia’s 5-0 win over England in the test
series that ended this month, we look at cricket this week.
(1) The day after it finished on 5 January 2007, how many
pages did Sydney’s Daily Telegraph devote to the fifth
test against England, which was the final test for Glenn McGrath,
Shane Warne and Justin Lange? (a) 7 (b) 14 (c) 26
(2) How many years earlier was the previous 5-0 result for
Australia v England cricket tests? (a) it had never happened
before (b) 43 (c) 86
(3) In how many consecutive innings did India’s Ajit
Agarkar get out first ball when playing against Australia
in December 1999-January 2000?
(4) How many of the 42 tests that Bert Sutcliffe played for
New Zealand did New Zealand win?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 12 January
2007
President Sapamurat Niyazov died last month; this week’s
subject is about him and his country, Turkmenistan.
(1) In the decade before his death, did President Niyazov’s
hair colour change from black to grey or grey to black?
(2) What types of recorded music are allowed in public places
and on radio and TV in Turkmenistan? (a) any type, as long
as it is not loud (b) classical only (c) no recorded music
is allowed
(3) What direction does the huge gilded statue of President
Niyazov in Turkmenistan’s capital face? (a) NNE (b)
SSW (c) the sun
(4) Which of the following apply in Turkmenistan? (a) a holiday
in honour of melons (b) January is named after President Niyazov
(c) April is named after President Niyazov’s mother
(d) wearing of make-up by newsreaders is banned
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 5 January
2007
This week’s subject is world cities.
(1) The Falls Church voted last month to break away from the
US Episcopal Church. The Falls Church is in what city?
(2) Of what two cities is “nylon” an abbreviation?
(3) In what city is Karl Marx, the founder of communism, buried?
(4) Of the 10 largest cities in population 100 years ago,
how many are still in the top 10?
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