World
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Music
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100
What event started WWI?
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (heir to the throne of the Austria-Hungary Empire)
100
Define a dictator
a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.
100
What century did the British arrive in Australia?
Late 1700s (18th century)
100
Who is the only artist to won a grammy for Album of the Year four times across their career?
Taylor Swift
100
What is the longest-running animated TV show?
The Simpsons
100
What decade did the first personal computer come out?
1970s
200
What historical event is Nelson Mandela associated with?
The Anti-Apartheid movement in Africa
200
Name a European Dictator.
Hitler, Mussolini, Putin, etc
200
What year is Australian federation?
1901
200
What song by what artist does Taylor Swift allude to in her the opening of her music video for Look What You Made Me Do?:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/screen-shot-2017-08-27-at-8-45-16-pm-2000-dbdbb1fa7e5747538b60894f8ece867f.jpg)
Thriller by Michael Jackson
200
What decade did colour TV first come out? (Hint: it was in the USA)
1950s
200
When (year) did the iPhone first come out?
2007
400
Under which President was slavery abolished in the US?
Abraham Lincoln
400
What country was Mao Zedong a dictator of?
China
400
What was the 1967 Referendum for?
Including Indigenous Australians in the census
400
What do Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Kim Jong-Hyun, among many others, have in common (other than a music career)?
They all died at age 27.
400
Name 3 Shakespeare Plays
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, As You Like It, Henry V, Henry VI, Othello, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, Anthony and Cleopatra, A Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, King John, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caeser, Henry IV, Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, All's Well That Ends Well, etc.
400
Name three fields that use nuclear materials.
Weaponry, energy, medical diagonisis and treatment, space exploration, criminal investigations, agriculture
800
Name three countries in Asia that have been under a communist economic system.
China, Russia, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mongolia
800
What country was Fidel Castro a dictator of?
Cuba
800
In what year did Kevin Rudd deliver the National Apology to Indigenous Australians (AKA Sorry Speech)?
2008
800
What year did The Backstreet Boy's 'I Want It That Way' come out?
1999
800
Who plays Dorothy in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz?
Judy Garland
800
Handwashing has been a religious and cultural custom for many years. But it was only in the 1800s when handwashing was discovered to prevent disease. What medical field did Doctor Ignaz Semmelweis work in, which aided in his research on the importance of hand hygiene in medical practice?
Obstetrics (pregnancy and childbirth)
1600
What countries were the two main colonisers of South America?
Spain and Portugal
1600
Who is the current leader of North Korea and also considered a dicator?
Kim Jong Un
1600
Who was the first and only (so far) female Prime Minister of Australia?
Julia Gillard
1600
Why did the BBC start all their broadcasts during WW2 with the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?
(sounds like: dit-dit-dit-dah)
Five = V in Roman numerals.
The rhythm is also used for the letter "V" in morse code.
"V" become associated with Victory.
This became a campaign of the Allies of World War II after Winston Churchill starting using it as a catchphrase in 1940.
1600
What was the first foreign film to win Best Picture at the Oscars?
Parasite
1600
Who were the two inventors in the War of Currents when it came to creating the modern electricity system?
Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla