Maths/Physics
What is the shape of the Earth?
Oblate spheroid
'Bloody Mary' originates from 16th Century English monarch Queen Mary I and her revival of heresy laws to persecute protestants. Who was her father?
Henry VIII
Who was the Australian PM that disappeared in December 1967 while swimming at Cheviot Beach, Victoria?
Harold Holt
With over 900 paintings and 2100 artworks, how many official documented sales did Vincent Van Gogh make in his lifetime?
1 - The Red Vineyard
Born in 1642 in England, I formulated the laws of motion, universal gravitation, unified physics, classical mechanics, optics and invented calculus at the age of 22. Who am I?
Sir Isaac Newton
What is the speed of light in a vacuum?
299,792 km/s
What was the name of the mausoleum built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan the Magnificent to commemorate the death of his wife?
The Taj Mahal
The Parliament of Australia consists of three elements: the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Monarchy. What title is given to the federal representative of the monarch?
The Governor-General (currently Samantha Mostyn)
How old was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he composed his first piano piece Minuet and Trio in G major in 1761?
5 years old
The first 5 digits of pi are 3.1415. What is the 105 trillionth digit?
6
The first ever photograph of a black hole, Messier 87, was taken in 2019. How many years into the past were we seeing?
53 - 55 million years
In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC. What play was being performed at the time?
Our American Cousin
Following the Port Arthur Massacre in 1996, what was the total number of firearms surrendered in the first year of the National Firearms Agreement scheme?
650,000
What do Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin, Robin Williams and Keanu Reeves all have in common with Shakespeare?
That he was a fraud
If I need to calculate the square root of a negative number to solve a quadratic equation, what imaginary number would I use?
i
Almost all objects in our solar system orbit the sun rotating counter-clockwise, except for what two notable exceptions?
Venus and Uranus
Introduced in 2009 by then PM Kevin Rudd, The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme was voted down in the Australian senate by the Liberal-National Coalition and which other party?
The Greens
In a famously gruesome painting by Francisco Goya, which Roman god was depicted eating one of his own children?
Saturn
According to Bosonic String Theory, to maintain Weyl symmetry and cancel the conformal anomaly, how many spacetime dimensions have to exist to ensure the theory remains mathematically consistent?
26 (25 space + 1 time)
Deploying after a referendum in 1999 and again in 2006 as a peacekeeping mission, Australia lead a U.N backed military taskforce to help which country maintain their independence?
East Timor
Used by artists like Stevie Wonder, Hanz Zimmer and creating the Rugrats soundtrack, which Australian invention in 1979 was credited with pioneering electronic and hip-hop music sampling?
The Fairlight CMI