Proverbs
What is mightier than the sword?
The pen
Who created “Peter Rabbit”?
Beatrix Potter
What is a female jackaroo called?
Jillaroo
“My Country” is one of the most recited poems in Australian literature. Who wrote it?
Dorothea Mackellar
Which famous musician was nicknamed “Satchmo”?
Louis Armstrong
What is the best policy?
Honesty
Who asked for “more ” in a famous book?
Oliver Twist
Another word for a large box is also part of the body.
Chest
By what first name is the Australian poet, Andrew Barton Paterson, better known?
Banjo
What is the 17th letter of the English alphabet?
Q
Which fruit tastes sweetest?
Forbidden
How many “little Australians” did Ethel Turner write about?
Seven
Traditionally, which term describes a box of important clothes and personal keepsakes collected by young women in preparation for marriage?
Glory box
In a poem by Banjo Paterson, “Clancy of the Overflow came down to lend a hand”, when ” the colt from old Regret had got away”. What is the poem?
“The Man from Snowy River”
If you have arachnophobia, what are you afraid of?
Spiders
Where is it not advisable to swap horses?
In the middle of the stream
Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin were the two main characters in “When We Were Six”.
Who was the author?
A. A. Milne
What word starting with “v” is used to describe something which is word for word or in exactly the same words?
Verbatum
Name the English female poet with the West Country accent who writes and recites humorous verse?
Pam Ayres
What was the name of the first cloned animal?
hint: it was a sheep
Dolly
What is the thief of time?
Procrastination
What Russian novel embracing more than 500 characters is set in the Napoleonic Wars?
“War and Peace”
by Leo Tolstoy
What word beginning with OR means “ a stiff, sheer muslin”?
Organdy
“I wandered lonely as a cloud” is the first line of a famous poem by William Wordsworth. Name the poem.
“Daffodils”
What colour is a polar bear’s skin?
Black