Sports
For which Australian sport would you find teams like Melbourne Storm, Brisbane Broncos, Canberra Raiders and Newcastle Knights to name a few?
National Rugby League (NRL)
The NRL as it is known today is a professional Rugby League competition consisting of teams from Australia and New Zealand. The competition has gone through some name changes over the years, but has been running since 1908.
An affogato is an Italian dessert of coffee and what ingredient?
Ice cream. An affogato or more traditionally known as "affogato al caffe" is an Italian coffee-based dessert. It usually takes the form of a scoop of unflavoured or vanilla gelato or ice cream topped or "drowned" with a shot of hot espresso.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two characters of which Children’s book?
Alice in Wonderland.
What is the capital city of New Zealand?
Wellington.
What film did Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt famously meet on the set of?
Mr and Mrs Smith.
Before Melbourne Park, where was the Australian (Tennis) Open held?
Kooyong.
The tournament was played at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club from 1972 until its move to the new Melbourne Park complex in 1988. The new facilities at Melbourne Park (formerly Flinders Park) were envisaged to meet the demands of a tournament that had outgrown Kooyong's capacity.
Which Asian fruit has the nickname ‘king of fruits’ and is known for its distinctive smell?
Durian. The southeast Asian plant Durian has been called the King of Fruits but, like Marmite, it sharply divides opinion between those who love the taste of its custard-like pulp and those revolted by its putrid smell.
Who is the author of the classic masterpiece “Anna Karenina”?
Leo Tolstoy.
Which ocean lies between Africa, Australia, and the south of Asia?
The Indian Ocean.
Jennifer Lopez has been engaged five times. Name two of the singer’s fiancés?
Ojani Noa, Chris Judd, Ben Affleck, Marc Anthony and Alex Rodriguez.
Who won Australia's first and second ever swimming gold medals at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900?
Fred Lane. Fred Lane became the first of Australia’s great procession of Olympic swimming champions when he won the 200 metres freestyle in the muddy waters and moody currents of Seine during the Paris Games of 1900.
Which type of pasta translates as “little worms”? This traditional type of pasta round in section is similar to spaghetti.
Vermicelli,
Where did the story "White Fang" take place?
White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. The story details White Fang's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush.
The historical city of Timbuktu is in which West African country?
Mali.
Who played Rachel Zane on the legal drama Suits?
Meghan Markle
The Grand Tours in cycling are the three major professional cycling stage races. Name the 3 of them.
The Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España
Name one type of Dutch cheese.
Beemster, Boerenkaas, Edam, Graskaas, Gouda, Kanterkaas, Leerdammer, Leyden, Limburger, Maaslander, Maasdam, Nagelkaas, Old Amsterdam, Parrano, Prima Donna, Roomano, Vlaskaas
Find the missing word in the Best Selling Book by Barak Obama: ‘The Audacity Of _____ (Blank)
Hope. The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans.
What rock floats in water?
Pumice Stone.
The volcanic rock is called 'pumice (pah-mis) stone' and is very lightweight, meaning it can float on water. Pumice is made when magma from a volcano cools really quickly in water. The rock raft is made up of trillions of tiny pieces of pumice stone, so it looks like a floating island when they're all together.
This song is a 1983 song by American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, co-written with Rob Hyman. Name the title of this song.
Time After Time.
A standard game of table tennis ends when one player scores how many points?
11 points.
If the score is a 10-10 tie at one point, then the players alternate services until one player wins by two.
How did the pavlova get its name?
The pavlova is named after the famed Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, who toured Australia and New Zealand in 1926. As the New Zealand story goes, the chef of a Wellington hotel at the time created the billowy dessert in her honor, claiming inspiration from her tutu.
The name of this book (blank) is the 2016 debut novel by British-born author Jane Harper. The book has won numerous international awards and has sold more than one million copies worldwide. A film adaptation was released on 1 January 2021 with great success, placing it as one of the highest-grossing Australian film opening weekends ever.
The Dry.
The part of Earth that lies just beneath the crust is the ____.
The Mantle. The mantle is the layer of the earth that lies below the crust and is by far the largest layer making up 84% of Earth's volume.
What is Lady Gaga’s real name?
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
Half points if you can name her first name.