A type of melodramatic television show that got its name from the advertisements for soap played on radio shows.
What is a soap opera?
100
The Head of State of the USA.
What is the US President?
100
The Head of State of the UK.
What is the Queen/the monarch?
100
The term used when someone is harassed on the internet, whether by a known or an unknown person/people.
What is cyber bullying?
200
The largest city in Australia.
What is Sydney?
200
Two other ways to refer to an advertisement.
What are ads, adverts, commercials?
200
What the USA's version of a parliament is called.
What is Congress?
200
The four countries that make up the United Kingdom.
What are England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland?
200
The word for any sound that is loud, annoying, unexpected, and/or generally unpleasant.
What is noise?
300
The original purpose of Australia as a British colony.
What is a penal colony/a prison?
300
Five jobs that are involved in media/television production.
What are sound designer, director, makeup artist, screenwriter, moderator, talk show host, actor, actress, cameraman, video editor, etc.?
300
The two main political parties in the United States.
What are the Republicans and the Democrats?
300
The two houses of the British Parliament.
What are the House of Lords and the House of Commons?
300
The name of the document that is the foundation of all of laws of a country. (For many countries.)
What is a constitution?
400
Three animals that only (or almost only) live in Australia.
What are kangaroos, platypuses, koalas, Tasmanian devil, dingo, etc.
400
A term that refers to the virtual world of the internet.
What is cyberspace?
400
What the nine members of the Supreme Court are called. (Also a name for a job in other courts.)
What are judges/justices?
400
Three current political parties in the UK.
What are Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens, the SNP, UKIP, Plaid Cymru, etc.?
400
The side of the road upon which one drives in each of the following countries (give an answer for each country individually): UK, Australia, USA, Canada
What is left, left, right, right?
500
How long the Aborigines have been living in Australia. (You will get the points if you are within a range of the correct answer plus or minus 20%.)
What are 40,000 years?
500
The type of company that produces music.
What is a record label?
500
The month in which all national elections in the USA take place.
What is November?
500
The name of the document, signed in the year 1215, which limited the power of the King, and created the basis for the first Parliament.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
The names, in English, of at least 7 of Austria's 8 neighboring countries.
What are Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein?