Sports
The Melbourne Cup is run on the first Tuesday of November at this Melbourne racecourse.
What is Flemington?
In the original Pokémon games, you pick Bulbasaur, Charmander or this water-type as your starter.
What is Squirtle?
This Melbourne-raised artist (born in Belgium) had a 2011 breakup song that won the Triple J Hottest 100 and went to number one in more than 20 countries.
Who is Gotye? The song is “Somebody That I Used to Know”.
Lightning never strikes the same place twice.
False. The Empire State Building gets hit around 20 to 25 times a year.
The chemical symbol Au stands for this precious metal.
What is gold?
In 2023, Collingwood ended a 33-year premiership drought by beating this team in the grand final by just four points.
Who are the Brisbane Lions?
The fictional cul-de-sac in Neighbours goes by this name, though it’s filmed on Pin Oak Court in Vermont South, Melbourne.
What is Ramsay Street?
Melbourne bounce is a subgenre of this broader dance music style, known for big synth leads and festival drops.
What is electro house?
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.
True. Botanically, a berry has seeds inside a fleshy fruit wall, which fits bananas. Strawberries are “aggregate accessory fruits”, with the seeds on the outside.
This organelle is famously, and memetically, called “the powerhouse of the cell”.
What is the mitochondria?
Melbourne-born Oscar Piastri won his first Formula 1 Grand Prix in 2024 in this European country.
What is Hungary?
This 2008 film, starring Robert Downey Jr., kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
What is Iron Man?
This Melbourne bounce DJ and producer became one of the sound’s most recognisable names, with festival sets that got the whole crowd bouncing.
Who is Will Sparks?
Wombat poo is cube-shaped
True. Wombats are the only known animal to produce cubic droppings, shaped by variations in the stiffness of their intestinal walls. They stack them to mark territory.
On this planet, a day (one full rotation) lasts longer than its year (one orbit of the Sun).
What is Venus?
When Ash Barty won the 2022 Australian Open, she beat this American in the final.
Who is Danielle Collins?
In the 2021 Netflix hit Squid Game, the main character, Seong Gi-hun, is assigned this player number.
What is 456?
In 2016, Skepta’s album Konnichiwa won the Mercury Prize, beating the final album from this late British icon, Blackstar.
Who is David Bowie?
“Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.”
True. Teaching at Oxford was happening by 1096, while the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan was founded in 1325.
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere, well ahead of oxygen at roughly 21%.
What is nitrogen?
This full-forward, nicknamed “Plugger”, holds the VFL/AFL record for most career goals, with 1,360 across his time at St Kilda and Sydney.
Who is Tony Lockett?
The Australian sitcom Kath & Kim is set in this Melbourne suburb, named after the shopping centre the characters love.
What is Fountain Gate?
In 2017, this Melbourne psych-rock band kept a promise to release five albums in a single year.
Who are King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard?
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
True. The Great Pyramid was built around 2560 BC, roughly 2,500 years before Cleopatra (69 to 30 BC). The moon landing was about 2,000 years after her.
Australians Barry Marshall and Robin Warren won the 2005 Nobel Prize for showing that stomach ulcers are caused by this bacterium. Marshall proved the point by drinking a culture of it.
What is Helicobacter pylori?