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Introduced in 1875 in NSW, the Bank Holiday on the first Monday of every August, is due to the:
A: celebration of the establishment of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia on August 2
B: collective bargaining efforts with the finance sector union to make up for the lack of public holidays between July and September
C: compensation for extra hours worked by personnel on June 30
D: the anniversary of the death of the first director (James Munro) of the Federal Bank of Australia
C: compensation for extra hours worked by personnel on June 30
Lisa is taller than Alex, Alex is taller than Mark and Mark is taller than Sarah. Who is the shortest in the group?
A: Alex
B: Lisa
C: Mark
D: Sarah
D: Sarah
In the 1997 Titanic, which film element is not fictitious but in fact happened in the real tragedy?
A: Jack and Rose’s love story
B: first officer Murdoch’s suicide
C: crew members rearranging the deck chairs
D: third class passengers being locked beneath
C: crew members rearranging the deck chairs
What was George W. Bush in the middle of doing as the 9/11 attacks unfolded?
A: playing golf at a charity event
B: attending a Broadway show
C: on a boat tour in Florida
D: visiting a primary school
D: visiting a primary school
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the character Napoleon—who becomes the tyrannical leader after the animal rebellion—is which animal specie?
A: Pig
B: Crow
C: Ram
D: Horse
A: Pig
In 2020, a bank that rhymes with Eastpac was fined how much dollars for its 23 million breaches of anti-money laundering laws?
A: 500 million
B: 1 billion
C: 2 billion
D: 4 billion
B: 1 billion
Which is an example of a false negative event?
A: a pregnancy test indicating a woman is not pregnant when she is
B: a positive drug test result even though the person tested never used the drug
C: a patient diagnosed with coronavirus when they are not ill
D: a little boy who cried wolf when there was no wolf
A: a pregnancy test indicating a woman is not pregnant when she is
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hermoine casts which spell to erase herself from her parents' memory?
A: Confundus
B: Episkey
C: Fidelius
D: Obliviate
D: Obliviate
Jim Martin, the youngest ANZAC soldier to have died during the Gallipoli Campaign, was how old when he sadly passed away from typhoid fever?
A: 14
B: 15
C: 16
D: 17
A: 14
Which country is widely accepted as the birthplace of coffee?
A: Brazil
B: Colombia
C: Ethiopia
D: Yemen
C: Ethiopia
A circuit breaker, in which trades on the stock market are halted for a predefined emergency, was introduced within the New York Stock Exchange after the Dow Jones (top 30 prominent US companies) dropped by what percent in a single day in 1987?
A: 6
B: 11
C: 22
D: 33
C: 22
What chemical process describes a solid turning directly into a gas, skipping the liquid phase?
A: Condensation
B: Deposition
C: Vaporization
D: Sublimation
D: Sublimation
What is the English translation of the title of the fifth episode of Chernobyl: 'Vichnaya Pamyat'?
A: Forever Lost
B: Eternal Memory
C: Nuclear Dawn
D: Silent Witness
B: Eternal Memory
The shortest war fought between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar Sultanate in 1896 lasted for a duration of:
A: 50 minutes
B: 5 hours
C: 15 hours
D: 5 days
A: 50 minutes
Which following planet was named after a Greek God rather than after a Roman God?
A: Jupiter
B: Saturn
C: Uranus
D: Neptune
C: Uranus
In March 1990, latest annual inflation in Argentina reached a record high of:
A: 1500%
B: 20,000%
C: 75,000%
D: 140,000%
B: 20,000%
If the 1st of January 2024 is on Monday, which day of the week will the 30th of January 2024 be on?
A: Monday
B: Tuesday
C: Wednesday
D: Thursday
B: Tuesday
In The Avengers (2012), which activity does Stan Lee return to after being interviewed?
A: eating shawarma
B: reading a comic book
C: playing chess
D: feeding pigeons
C: playing chess
Before the Wright Brothers made their historic first manned flight, how long before the flight occurred did a newspaper inaccurately predict it would take at least another million years for manned flight to become reality?
A: 9 days
B: 9 weeks
C: 9 months
D: 9 years
B: 9 weeks
In 2019, a piece of 'art' consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall at an art fair sold for a relatively high price of how much dollars?
A: 22,000
B: 120,000
C: 620,000
D: 1.22mil
B: 120,000
Which of the following is a fake past (significant) financial event.
A: 1929 Black Tuesday
B: 1969 South African financial crisis
C: 1987 Black Monday
D: 1997 Asian financial crisis
B: 1969 South African financial crisis
What is the sum of the first twenty natural numbers (1 to 20)?
A: 210
B: 235
C: 260
D: 285
A: 210
Which following quote was said by Jack Swigert in the real-life Apollo 13 mission which was adapted into the incorrect phrase in the movie?
A: Houston, we have a problem here
B: Houston, we encountered a problem here
C: Houston, we're facing a problem here
D: Houston, we've had a problem here
D: Houston, we've had a problem here
In October 1582, the Gregorian Calendar skipped how many days to make up for the extra days accrued under the prior Julian calendar due to the overcounting of leap years?
A: 2
B: 10
C: 16
D: 25
B: 10
The teeth of a subspecies of which animal is accepted as the toughest biological matter, able to withstand forces greater than that capable by spider silk and Kevlar?
A: Crayfish
B: Snail
C: Komodo Dragon
D: Hippopotamus
B: Snail