Movies
This Coen Brothers film features a laid-back bowler known simply as "The Dude."
What is The Big Lebowski?
This Norwegian artist created the iconic work The Scream.
Who was Edvard Munch?
This German battleship was sunk in November 1944 by Lancasters of No. 617 and No. 9 Squadrons using Tallboy bombs.
What was the German battleship Tirpitz?
I was known as the "Queen of Crime" and created Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Who is Agatha Christie?
This Norwegian explorer was the first person to reach the South Pole.
Who is Roald Amundsen?
This 2002 film tells the true story of three Aboriginal girls who follow a fence across Western Australia to return home.
What is Rabbit-Proof Fence?
This Italian artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who was Michelangelo?
This four-engined bomber became the most famous aircraft used by Bomber Command.
What is the Avro Lancaster?
I discovered penicillin after noticing mould killing bacteria in a petri dish.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This Anglo-Irish explorer led the famous Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition aboard the Endurance.
Who is Ernest Shackleton?
This animated film about a dancing penguin won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
What is Happy Feet?
This artist became famous for drip paintings and action painting techniques.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
Approximately this percentage of Bomber Command aircrew lost their lives during the war. (Plus or minus 10%)
What is about 44%?
I was a military leader who crossed the Rubicon and became dictator of Rome, ultimately assassinated on the Ides of March.
Julius Caesar
This British explorer reached the South Pole a month after the Norwegian party in 1912.
Who was Robert Falcon Scott?
This 1968 Stanley Kubrick film features HAL 9000 and a mysterious black monolith.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?
This bizarre Dalí artwork combines a crustacean with a household communication device.
What is the Lobster Telephone?
This German city suffered a devastating firestorm in February 1945 following Allied bombing.
What is Dresden?
I was an Australian prime minister who disappeared while swimming in 1967 and was never found.
Harold Holt
These large seabirds are famous for surviving extreme cold and incubating eggs on their feet.
What are Emperor penguins?
This 1979 war film by Francis Ford Coppola was loosely inspired by Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness.
What is Apocalypse Now?
This Pop Art pioneer painted Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of Marilyn Monroe.
Who is Andy Warhol?
This RAF commander remains controversial for his advocacy of area bombing against German cities during WW2
Who was Arthur 'Bomber' Harris?
I was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Amelia Earhart
This Australian geologist and explorer led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914).
Who is Douglas Mawson?