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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 25 December 2022
This week's subject is deaths.
1 What animal caused the most human deaths in Australia from 2000 to 2013?
2 Humans kill 100 million sharks each year. Worldwide, what is the average annual number of humans killed by sharks? (a) 1 (b) 10 (c) one thousand (d) one million
3 What did Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse and 27 have in common?
4 According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, what is the leading cause of death in the USA? (a) doctors (b) drugs (c) road accidents (d) smoking
5 How many workers were killed during construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge? (a) only 1 (b) 16 (c) 26
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 18 December 2022
This week's subject is weird cryptic crossword clues.
1 B E D (9)
2 S
BO (8)
3 (8)
4 ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (4)
5 ¼¼ (5,8)
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 11 December 2022
This week's subject is animal senses.
1 Would a Siberian husky look at you with a blue eye or a brown eye?
2 Can fish hear?
3 What does a slug do if its nose becomes blocked?
4 What does a giraffe use to clean its ears?
5 Do bees have an odd or even number of eyes?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 4 December 2022
This week's subject is psychology.
1 Before his nearly three days buried in a small cavity following the Thredbo landslide, survivor Stuart Diver was a sufferer from a common psychological problem. What was this?
2 How many psychologists did the Australian team have at the 2000 Olympics? (a) none (b) 5 (c) 25
3 If two queues are of about equal length, what percentage of people will join the one on the right? (a) 50% (b) 70% (c) 90%
4 What percentage of people going up or down stairs in a theatre or sports stadium, faced with a choice of turning left or right, will turn left? (a) 50% (b) 70% (c) 90%
5 According to University of South California psychologist Gerald Jellison,
how many times are we lied to each day? (a) 2 (b) 20 (c) 200
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 27 November 2022
This week's subject is science.
1 You can get a scald from water, but can you get a burn from water?
2 Which freezes more quickly: hot or cold water?
3 What is the only substance on Earth that can be solid, liquid or gas?
4 What has Associate Professor John Sader of the University of Melbourne done? (a) he has worked in the invention of a non-invasive technique to calibrate the stiffness of atomic force microscope cantilevers, leading to significant improvement in one of the chief tools of nanoscience (b) he has enabled the atomic force microscope to become a quantitative tool for measuring forces on the nanoscale (c) he has developed the theory behind microcantilever dynamics that govern many microscopic dynamical processes (d) all of the above
5 What has Dr Paul Stanwix of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics done? (a) he has tested local Lorentz
invariance with precision in the laboratory through the use of a stable cryogenic sapphire oscillator with active rotation (b) he has provided the world's best data to date of the isotropy of the speed of light and the validity of Lorentz symmetry in electrodynamics (c) both of the above
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 20 November 2022
This week's subject is stealing.
1 With what was the robber who held up a doughnut shop in Toronto, Canada, on 27-4-97, armed? (a) a gun (b) a grenade (c) a goose
2 With what was Carlos Diaz, aged 29, armed when he committed the robbery that earned him 18 years to life in New York in May 1997? (a) a zeppelin (b) a Zorro sword (c) a zucchini
3 What occupation was given on Al Capone's business card? (a) used car salesman (b) used furniture dealer (c) used stamp collector
4 A sign at a Warwick, Rhode Island, bank in September 1997, advised that the night-deposit box was broken and money was to be put in the new box in the foyer over the weekend. Who posted the sign and installed the new box?
5 What was the largest object ever stolen by one person?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 13 November 2022
This week's subject is history.
1 What are the two correct answers to the question "Where was the Magna Carta signed?"?
2 Who was "Time" magazine's "man of the millennium"?
3 When the radical communist Khmer Rouge under their leader Pol Pot seized power in Cambodia in 1975, what was banned? (a) money (b) private property (c) both
4 What do these have in common? Day game, outdoor stadium, classical music, AM radio, real cream, silent movie, bar soap, push mowers, free-range chickens, birth mother, natural blonde, heterosexual marriage, manual toothbrushes
5 What is the derivation of the word "Pommie"?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 6 November 2022
This week's subject is long words.
1 All of us have borborygmus every once in a while. What is it? (a) a common cold (even though the word is not common) (b) a gurgling noise (c) a loud cough
2 A lot of what group of people these days have oligoasthenoteratozoospermia? (a) old men (b) old women (c) young men
3 If you do what too often might you get uvulopalatopharyngoplasty? (a) have alcoholic drinks (b) run marathons (c) snore
4 What could the pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism be? (a) a genetic thyroid disorder (b) exotic asthma (c) death
5 If your heart has hypertrophic idiopathic subaortic stenosis, what may you need? (a) heart surgery (b) divorce (c) more sleep
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 30 October 2022
This week's subject is elementary logic.
1 A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights is working due to a power failure caused by a local storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting it. How could the driver have seen the dog in time?
2 You are seated next to the pilot of a small plane at an altitude of 500 metres. Huge mountains, 1km high, loom directly ahead. The pilot does not change speed, direction or altitude; yet you both survive. How can this be?
3 As quickly as possible: Spell "coast" five times. Then spell what you put in a toaster.
4 As quickly as possible: Spell "silk" five times. Then spell what cows drink.
5 Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 23 October 2022
This week's subject is Sydney street names.
1 Where are the Avenues of Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania and The Americas?
2 Eight Sydney suburbs have an Alpha Street. How many have the next three Greek letters as well (Beta, Gamma and Delta)?
3 Does the Cumberland Highway go under any other names?
4 How can you walk along Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart and Canberra Streets all within an hour?
5 The names of nine of the 10 streets in the Mayfields Drive area of Blair Athol begin with what word? (a) The (b) St (c) Dr
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 16 October 2022
This week's subject is long words.
1 What is Hippopomonstrosesquipedalophobia?
2 What word of 32 letters means 'fear of long words'?
3 Now to an even longer word, one of 45-letters. What does Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis mean? (a) a lung problem from inhaling volcanic ash (b) fear of a volcano erupting (c) book or noise volumes
4 What is Rhinotillexomania? (a) fear of an attack by a rhinoceros (b) excessive picking of your nose (c) addiction to avoiding any kind of illness
5 How could you get Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia? (a) by photographing lion cubs (b) by joining a boxing group (c) by eating ice cream too fast
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 9 October 2022
This week's subject is inventions.
1 What did Englishman William Willet invent? (a) daylight saving (b) billy-cans (c) wills
2 For what offence was Earl Laphrop, inventor of the world's first forgery-proof machine, jailed for life?
3 Which of the bifocal lens, rocking chair and street lamp did Benjamin Franklin invent?
4 What did Lord Cardigan invent?
5 What did Lord Charles Macintosh invent?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 2 October 2022
This week's subject is churches.
1 What unusual feature is found in St Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai desert? (a) an Olympic-size (50m) swimming pool (b) a room containing the skulls of all the monks that lived there over two centuries (c) a chapter of the Bible inscribed on a pin-head.
2 What is unusual about the 1000-seat church in Spain's Valley of the Fallen? (a) (a) it's underwater (b) it's excavated from a cliff (c) it's in a former sports stadium
3 Although the St Pius X Basilica in Lourdes once had the largest seating capacity—20,000—of any church in the world, it does not take up much of the city's space. Why is this? (a) it's on an artificial island (b) it's underground
(c) its services are now by zoom
4 How do Lourdes' St Pius X Basilica employees get around inside the huge church?
(a) on bicycles (b) on motor cycles (c) by running
5 What is odd about the world's largest cathedral, that of St John the Divine in New York?
(a) after 130 years its construction is still unfinished (b) it has no water access (c) it is built on a former jail property
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 25 September 2022
This week's subject is mental arithmetic.
1 What are the chances that a spun or tossed coin will finish heads (or a spun tennis racquet finish rough or smooth, or whatever)?
2 If there are three apples and you take away two, how many do you have?
3 A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half hour. How long will the pills last?
4 There are 128 players in singes events at grand slam tennis tournaments. What is the easiest way to calculate how many matches have to be played?
5 How can you add all the numbers from 1 to 100 in your head?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 18 September 2022
This week's subject is Queen Elizabeth II.
1 Why was 2 June selected for Queen Elizabeth II's 1953 coronation, and did the selection prove wise?
2 What is the only house in England that the queen could not enter?
3 Who is the only person in England who does not need a car licence plate?
4 For her 2000 Australian Royal tour, how many pairs of gloves were included in the Queen's luggage? (a) 50 (b) 25 (c) none, 30 were readied but the container was forgotten
5 Where was the then Princess Elizabeth when news came through of the death of her father, King George VI, on 6-2-52? (a) in jail (b) up a tree (c) under a car
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 11 September 2022
This week's subject is spelling.
1 Are there any errors in the following sentence?: I was on tenderhooks when a miniscule barbeque and it's Portugese accessories were given to a Seventh Day Adventist, Mahommad and I.
2 Is gray or grey the correct spelling of the colour?
3 What records do the words 'startling' and 'sparkling' hold?
4 What are analogues, of which these are examples? Four, level, amperes&, abbrev, mispelt, mourner and parallel
5 'Trek' is surprisingly spelt without a 'c', instead of the expected 'treck'. So is a person who goes on a trek a 'treker' or a 'trecker'?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 4 September 2022
This week's subject is elementary logic.
1 A professional footballer bet me that he could kick a ball a certain distance, have it stop, and then come back to him, without anything else touching it. How did he win the bet?
2 How can you stick a pin into a balloon without it making a noise or releasing any air?
3 I am standing on a bare stone floor and am holding a very fragile, very brittle porcelain cup. How can I be certain that I can drop the cup through more than one metre without its breaking?
4 In a marathon race, you overtake the runner coming second at the 42km mark and positions don't change after that. Where did you finish?.
5 If in a marathon race, you overtake the person coming last at the 42km mark and positions don't change after that, where did you finish?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 28 August 2022
This week's subject is fruit.
1 Which has the more vitamin C out of cantaloupes and rockmelons?
2 When did you last scrump?
3 Is a pineapple mainly pine or apple?
4 What's the difference between a raisin and a sultana?
5 How many pieces are there in a mandarin?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 21 August 2022
This week's subject is English prefixes.
1 What is the difference between flammable and inflammable?
2 What is the difference between mure and immure?
3 Three of the following are true. Which one is false? (a) The opposite of inert is ert. (b) The opposite of uncouth is couth. (c) The opposite of unruly is ruly. (d) The opposite of anonymous is onymous
4 "Ungainly" means "awkward"; is there a word "gainly", and if so, what does it mean?
5 What does the prefix "rhino" mean? (a) mammoth (b) nose (c) horn
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 7 August 2022
This week's subject is space.
1 On an expedition from Earth at the speed of light, 300'000km a second, the moon would be passed one and a half seconds after launch, the sun 10 minutes later and the edge of our solar system after five and a half hours. When would the expedition pass the Andromeda Galaxy, the twin to our Milky Way and our nearest large galaxy? (a) after 2 weeks (b) after 2 months (c) after 2 million years
2 How long is it since a meteor last entered earth's atmosphere? (a) 1999 (b) less than 6 months (c) 3 months
3 When does a meteoroid become a meteorite?
4 What is the largest unnamed object in our solar system?
5 Of what are comets made?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 31 July 2022
This week's subject is special crossword clues.
1 Gets the gig for epic band, spurning covers (9) (The theme was nationals.)
2 Start an after-dinner speech about my dinner suit (8)
3 The royal couple play around (9)
4 He worships false gods to postpone marriage vows (8)
5 Idiot exercise (4)
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 24 July 2022
This week's subject is aircraft.
1 Is Sunday the busiest day for air flights in Tonga?
2 In what aircraft did the passenger sit in front of the pilot? (a) Messerschmitt (b) Tiger Moth (c) Warner Bros cartoons planes
3 How many planes does John Travolta have in the garden of his mansion? (a) only one, of course (b) 2 (c) 4
4 What Sydney airport has the airport code RSE?
5 In what period was United Airlines losing $16 million before applying for bankruptcy on 10 December 2002? (a) each month (b) each week (c) each day
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 10 July 2022
This week's subject is crime.
1 Two boys escaped from Don Dale Juvenile Correction Centre in Darwin in June 2015. How were they returned to the prison? (a) by a great-grandmother (b) by New Zealand police after they broke into the remains of the Christchurch Cathedral (c) by crashing the car they'd stolen through the jail entrance front gates
2 Does Sydney's Long Bay jail have many absquatulations?
3 Why was North Korea's defence minister executed in May 2015? (a) for rape (b) for mass murder (c) for falling asleep during a meeting
4 Under Colonel Mariam's rule of Ethiopia 10 000 "counter-revolutionaries" were shot. For what did their relatives have to pay before they could claim the bodies?
5 What precautions do the residents of the Sydney suburb Great Mackeral Beach take to prevent theft from their homes?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 3 July 2022
This week's subject is Wimbledon tennis records.
1 What 2006 men's doubles partners each have 17 letters in their name (first and surname), and only two of the letters are different when comparing their names?
2 What was the longest Wimbledon men's singles match in elapsed time (eg including overnight)? (a) 10 hours (b) 100 hours
3 What was the longest Wimbledon doubles match in games? (a) over 50 games (b) over 100 games
4 For how long did the shortest ever Wimbledon final last? (a) 37 minutes (b) 55 minutes
5 What was Novak Djokovic's record, set at Wimbledon in 2011,, for the number of times
bouncing the ball before a serve?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 26 June 2022
This week's subject is shopping history.
1 What was the first product to have a bar code? (a) Coca-Cola (b) Wrigley's chewing gum (c) Johnson's baby powder
2 What covered the floor of virtually all butchers' shops until supermarkets started to take over their role?
3 What was the main requirement for employment at Sydney's Mark Foy's department store at least to the 1950s? (a) business degree (b) School Leaving Certificate (c) be a Catholic
4 What was the main requirement for employment at Sydney's Anthony Hordern's department store at least to the 1950s? (a) business degree (b) School Leaving Certificate (c) be a Protestant
5 What was the main requirement for employment at Sydney's Farmers department store at least to the 1950s? (a) business degree (b) School Leaving Certificate (c) be of English descent
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 19 June 2022
This week's subject is crosswords.
1 Donald Harrison, who died this month, produced the crosswords still shown each Tuesday in The Sydney Morning Herald. For how long had he been doing this? (a) only 18 weeks (b) 18 months (c) 18 years
2 How old was he? (a) 30 (b) 60 (c) 90
3 'Produce' crosswords is not the correct verb for what a crossword maker does. What is it? (a) compile (b) compose (c) create
4 What do cruciverbalists do?
5 How many clues were there in the world's biggest horizontal crossword? (a) 51 (b) 151 (c) 2439
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 12 June 2022
This week's subject is war.
1 What caused the July 1969 war between former good neighbours Honduras and El Salvador, which killed at least 2000 people in 16 days? (a) food shortage (b) a car accident (c) a soccer match
2 Most of the British soldiers who died in the Gulf War were killed by soldiers from what country?
3 What was the only country to have won independence from Britain in war?
4 Bolivia's navy had 5,000 personnel. How long is its coastline?
5 How long after the end of the Vietnam War was the "Welcome Home" parade staged in Sydney streets for Vietnam veterans? (a) the same week (b) 6 months (c) 15 years
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 5 June 2022
This week's subject is again names.
1 Who are Wong and Wang?
In case that question was too difficult for you, the remaining questions include the answers.
2 How did the resident of Windsor Road, Northmead, spell his surname?
3 Which person lived at Fox Road, North Ryde?
4 Who lived in Malabar Road, Maroubra?
5 Why was the resident of Lisbon Street, Mt Druitt, thick?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 29 May 2022
This week's subject is surnames.
1 Henry Chinn was a former Sydney man who was sentenced to death for trying to send drugs from China to Australia, later commuted to two years jail. Do any other surnames begin with Chh?
2 What surname did the Labor candidate for Lane Cove in the 2017 council election have? (a) Smith (b) Zbik (c) Council
3 Did E Ee also live in Lane Cove?
4 Was Ee this person's surname?
5 If this person's name was told to you, how would you have spelt it? Muthukrishnan Srinivasan
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 22 May 2022
This week's subject is overseas first names:
1 What is the first name of the new president of the Philippines?
2 Most adults in Ghana have a first name that is one of seven. Why are these seven so common?
3 Whose children are named Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa, Fifi Trixibelle, Pixie and Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lilly?
4 What was the top name for boys in the U.S. every year from 1999 to 2009? (a) Jacob (b) Jarrod (c) Jason (d) something else
5 What is the given name of the son of engineer, industrial designer and technology entrepreneur Eon Musk and Canadian singer Claire Boucher (known as Grimes)? (a) Tim (b) Ian (c) X Æ A-Xii
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 15 May 2022
This week's subject is Sydney street names.
1 Waverley set a record with a street name beginning with four consonants – Strzelecki Close. How was Horningsea Park able to break the record with minimum effort?
2 In Greater Sydney street directories, are there any street names ending in Q, V, X or Z? If so, which has the most and which has the least?
3 If we allow Y to be counted as a consonant, what Sydney street name has seven consecutive consonants?
4 How can the name of a road have the word 'of' immediately precede the final word 'road'?
5 What do these Sydney street names have in common? Ada, Anana, Ara, Ava, Cadac, Civic, Deed, Eve, Glenelg, Hannah, Harah, Hattah, Kuruk, Mallam, Naman, Narran, Otto, Saggas, Tumut and Yatay?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 8 May 2022
This week's subject is world education.
1 Have any British prime ministers attended Eton College?
2 What is special about the school motto 'If it is to be, it is up to me'?
3 At what year did US president Andrew Johnson leave school? (a) year 5 (b) year 7 (c) something else
4 Until 2012, on how many days a week did children in France attend school? (a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 5½
5 And how many holidays did they have each year? (a) just over one month (b) two months (c) nearly four months
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 1 May 2022
This week's subject is wildlife food and drink.
1 What do warthogs do when they eat? (a) sing (b) kneel with their front legs but keep their rear legs upright (c) close their eyes
2 How much does an elephant drink each day? (a) 80 litres (b) 200 litres (c) elephants don't drink
3 Most animals graze haphazardly. What about hippos?
4 What do mountain gorillas eat? (a) bananas, (b) stones (c) their own dung
5 Do sheep drink from running water?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 24 April 2022
This week's subject is trees.
1 What are the metal bands often wrapped around trees in Melbourne local parks like Fitzroy Gardens, for? (a) to stop possums and other small animals from climbing the trees (b) to stop Melbournians from getting into trees (c) to retain gluten to help the trees grow (d) to enable each tree to receive its own emails
2 What is the name of Iceland's native trees?
3 Approximately how many trees were destroyed in the Great Storm of 1987 in Great Britain? (a) one thousand (b) one million (c) 15 million
4 The world's largest living things, redwood trees, can grow to 105m and produce bark 35cm thick. How long is the seed they spring from? (a) 1cm (b) 2cm (c) 3cm
5 Where could you find an allocasuarina portuensis tree? (a) anywhere in Europe except for Russia (b) only in the eastern half of South America, particularly Brazil (c) only around and near Nielsen Park, Vaucluse
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 17 April 2022
This week's subject is death.
1 At 83, actor Robert Young attempted suicide by attaching a hose to his car exhaust. Why did the attempt fail?
2 A tragedy in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1919, killed 21 people. What caused their death? (a) a factory explosion that caused 2000 spanners to rain down on a concert by a classical music group called "The Spinners" (b) a tidal wave of molasses cresting at 16m which swallowed eight buildings (c) a stampede of 25 elephants, three baby zebras and a skunk that escaped from a secret zoo (d) a 73-year-old pensioner had amassed behind the wall of an abandoned convent
3 Thirty-seven Americans were killed by soft drink machines between 1978 and 1995. What caused these machines to become lethal?
4 What is the greatest number of people that one man has saved from death in war? (a) more than 1000 (b) about 50 000 (c) more than 90 000
5 What is the number one killer of Alaska's outdoor recreationists?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 10 April 2022
This week's subject is time.
1 Does 'bi-monthly" mean twice a month or every second month?
2 Why does Thursday start lazily in Jordan?
3 How long is the geological time eon?
4 In Australia dates are shown as day-month year. How are they shown in the United States?
5 How many other countries use the US system?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 3 April 2022
This week's subject is railways.
1 Where is the world's steepest passenger railway?
2 How steep is it? (a) 42 degrees (b) 52 degrees (c) 72 degrees
3 How can you travel from Fairfield station to Fairfield station via Fairfield station?
4 Between what two Sydney suburbs is the sharpest (tightest) curve on Sydney railways? (a) Waverton and Wollstonecraft (b) Milsons Point and North Sydney (c) Roseville and Lindfield
5 How many carriages does The Ghan have for its run between Darwin and Adelaide? (a) 4 (b) 24 (c) 42
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 27 March 2022
This week's subject is pronunciation.
1 What is the correct pronunciation of the surname of Australia's Opposition leader, Anthony Albanese? (a AlbanEEse (b) AlbanAYsee (c) something else
2 How many TV and radio presenters pronounce Albanese correctly? (a) almost all of them (b) almost none of them
3 What is weird about the emphasis we use when mentioning the name of a street as opposed to a road, avenue, crescent, etc?
4 By what difference in pronunciation can you change the meaning of 'invalid' from 'disabled person' to 'deprived of legal force or value'?
5 The eight three-letter words ending in AY rhyme with the letter 'A'. What happens to one , and only one, of them, without any apparent reason, when you add an 'S'
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 20 March 2022
This week's subject is health.
1 Can you lose weight by banging your head against the wall?
2 According to the NSW Poisons Information Centre, what causes the most poisonings?
3 What did Clive Palmer weigh in 2013? (a) 158kg (b) 124kg (c) 85kg
4 Why do no research results or health professionals claim that flaxseed is healthier than linseed?
5 Does it hurt less if a Band-Aid is taken off quickly or slowly?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 13 March 2022
This week's subject is palindromes.
1 Last month's date 22-02-2022 was both a palindrome and an ambigram. What are they?
2 What three-letter words for grandparent, parent and child are all palindromes?
3 'A Toyota' is a palindrome.. What car name beginning with C is a palindrome?
4 Why was the first prize of $1001 in the 2017 World Palindrome Championships significant?
5 When is 'quirkily' a palindrome? (a) in French (b) in Morse code (c) when its opposite meaning is used
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 6 March 2022
This week's subject is Russia.
1 For how much an acre did America buy Alaska, its largest state, from Russia? (a) two cents (b) two dollars (c) 22 rubles
2 Star Russian heavyweight weightlifter Sergey Syrstov competed in the 1996 Olympic games. Why was his mother not there to watch him? (a) they were estranged (b) she could not stand watching or having anything to do with weightlifting
3 Cryptic crossword clue: Even Russia has states (1,1,1,)
4 We all know Russia is the largest country, but which is second?
5 What did Anastasia Sergeyevna Pavlyuchenkova do for Russia? (a) teach spelling (b ) play tennis (c) lead space travel as a pioneer cosmonaut
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 27 February 2022
This week's subject is weird sports.
1 Two contestants, one a former Swedish champion, were expelled from the 1999 Swedish championships after testing positive for cortisone. What was the sport? (a) tennis (b) table tennis (c) something else
2 In what sport do you use equipment as long as or longer than your body and your opponent has no equipment?
3 What is Australia's most dangerous sport?
4 What are the fastest creatures regularly raced for sport?
5 In what sport can you graduate to a recurve?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 20 February 2022
This week's subject is psychology.
1 We start with the easiest question: Of what is phobophobia a fear?
2 Of what was Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, afraid?
3 How do you tell whether people are lying by looking at them?
4 What does Steve Ellison know? (a) the value of pi to the 1000th decimal point (b) the year of birth and death of everyone he's heard of (c) something unique that happened in every year since 1000BC (subject to where historians differ regarding some years)
5 What is the difference between psychology and psychiatry?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 13 February 2022
This week's subject is flags.
1 What flag is soon to get a permanent position on the Sydney Harbour Bridge?
2 What country's national flag has been changed the most times?
3 What is the only country with a national flag that is not rectangular? (a) Nepal (b) Poland (c) (c) Eritrea
4 How do you tell the difference between the flags of the Netherlands and Luxembourg? (a) the Luxembourg flag is longer (b) the Luxembourg flag's blue stripe is a lighter shade
5 What dominates the flag of Isle of Man? (a) a crown (b) a triskelion (c) a caterpillar
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 6 February 2022
This week's subject is the 2022 Australian Open tennis.
1 What is the seating capacity for Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena? (a) 1,482 (b) 14,820
2 About how many of the seats were occupied for the 26 January Australian mixed doubles semi-final that included Australians Jaimee Fourlis and Jason Kubler? (a) about 40 (b) about 14, 800
3 At what time did that Grand Slam semi-final start? (a) 12.50pm, a strange time for a semi-final (b) 6.50pm (although it could have been earlier as it was on a public holiday) (c) 12.50am
4 In how many of the years from 2015 to 2021 did Dylan Alcott win the Australian Quad Wheelchair singles?
5 What distracted him from winning the 2022 final?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 30 January 2022
This week's subject is tennis.
1 What does the surname Djokovic mean? (a) son of George (b) sun worshiper (c) Sunday champion
2 What does the surname Federer mean? (a) supplied with food (b) trader in feathers (c) bank manager
3 What does the surname Nadal mean? (a) allergic to (b) born of (c) Christmas
4 What does Canadian player Denis Shapovalov do before each serve? (a) look to the sky (b) bounce the ball between his legs from behind, the same as John Isner (c) rub the Canadian sign on his shirt
5 Approximately how many times in a main event does Rafael Nadal smile? (a) none (b) at the end of each set, so 2, 3, 4 or 5 times (c) it varies - every time his opponent serves a double fault
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 23 January 2022
This week's subject is Sydney street name collections.
1 What suburb has all but one of its 27 streets named after US presidents?
2 What suburb has most of its streets named after Australian tennis players or cricketers?
3 What suburb has many of its streets named after Pacific Ocean localities?
4 Of the 51 streets in the Sydney suburb Claymore, none are called 'streets' but there are two 'crescents', two 'roads' and a 'place'. What are the other 46? (a) lanes (b) parades (c) ways
5 More than 60 Hinchinbrook streets names are of what? (a) Australian famous people (b) birds (c) criminals
Answers to this week's questions are in our Sydney street names collections
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 16 January 2022
This week's subject is tennis.
1 What is a tweener?
2 In what branch of tennis did Esther Vergeer win 400 consecutive matches?
3 What was the maximum number of letters in either first name or surname of the players in the 2012 China Hopman Cup team? (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 13
4 Did Roger Federer's wife present him with twins?
5 What are the missing letters from the following tweet in Peter FitzSimon's Herald column describing how Novak Djokovic's vaccination lack caused his visa cancellation review this month? Nova-, Nov--, Nov---
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 9 January 2022
1 What are the main reasons for being scared of an Australian drop bear?
2 What is the best way to keep them from grabbing your neck? (a) put Vegemite behind your ears (b) wear a neck brace when walking through forests (c) try to ignore them
3 Where do you have to beware of drop bears?
4 A man is wearing all black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, jumper, gloves and balaclava. He is walking down a black street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its lights off but somehow manages to stop in time. How did the driver see the man?
5 How far can a train go into a tunnel?
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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 2 January 2022
This week's subject is colours.
1 Does a red rag attract a bull?
2 What colour of clothing is chosen by most players at Wimbledon? (a) yellow, to make it harder for opponents to distinguish the ball (b) green, to make it harder for opponents to distinguish the ball (c) white
3 What has London's Financial Times had in common with pink salmon since 1893?
4 In what colour is this word, green, printed?
5 Do you see red the same as I do, or could your red be my green, or something completely different from any colour
that I can imagine?
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