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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 30 December 2018
Answers to this week's questions on hotels:
1 The Jukkäsjarvi Ice Hotel in Sweden melts at the end of the season. It's made of ice, including the beds, which are covered by animal skin, and is rebuilt each winter. There's also an Ice Hotel in Canada. (Sydney Morning Herald 25-11-00)
2 The hotel in Edinburgh Road, Canberra, was named the Hotel Hotel.
3 (b) Circus Circus is a hotel and casino in Las Vegas, USA.
4 (b) Brisbane's Story Bridge Hotel holds the Australia Day cockroach races.
5 A man stopped his car opposite a hotel and immediately knew that he was bankrupt. How did he know? He was playing Monopoly.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 23 December 2018
Answers to this week's questions on cricket:
1 (c) India has never won a test series in Australia.
2 (b) The highest number of runs scored in a single innings in any class of cricket was by a 15-year-old Indian, 1009 not out in 2016. The previous record was 628 in 1899.
3 (c) The Indian scoreboard showed the heading for his runs as Bat’s Man
4 (c) The record number of consecutive toss wins for the home team in test matches in Asia is 14. (Fox Sports)
5 (b) The chances of that happening: one in 16,384.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 16 December 2018
Answers to this week's questions on The Sydney Morning Herald:
1 (a) As of this week, the Herald is owned by Channel 9.
2 (b) The Sydney Morning Herald had five quotation marks in a row on 1-6-13 at the end of a sentence in Column 8: ''Today's issue of our local paper, the Limerick Leader,''writes Peter Boers, of Limerick, Ireland, ''has this headline over a story about traffic problems near a cemetery: 'Councillor describes cemetery as ''a death trap''.'''
3 (b) In 2017, The Sydney Morning Herald's Spectrum magazine helped you solve its quiz by providing the answers before you got to the questions.
4 (b) Herald letter writer Yee Ooi probably set a record for the most consecutive vowels in a person's name (five) and the number of vowels v consonants (five to one).
5 (b) The helpful information The Sydney Morning Herald gave on 29 May 2018 for 7.00pm was 7.00 ABC News Presents the latest news stories
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 9 December 2018
Answers to this week's questions on Mars:
1 Elysium Planitia is the landing place for last week's NASA Mars explorer.
2 (b) The 100 recipes that NASA had developed by July 2012 for the 2030 flight to Mars were all vegan.
3 (c) Martian explorer Red Rover weighed 15.4kg on Earth and 10.4kg on Mars.
4 Mars is very often referred to as "the red planet" because its surface has that appearance from a distance, but it is also said to have other colours such as butterscotch or orange.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 2 December 2018
Answers to this week's questions on boxing:
1 Anthony Mundine lost weight progressively from his last rugby league game with the Dragons in 2000 (86kg), to his win in the WBA super middleweight title (75.75kg) and his 2009 win in the IBO middleweight title (72.12kg).
In June 2010 he was planning a light middleweight title attempt and was down to 60.6kg. (Sydney Morning Herald 30 June 2010)
2 The first names of boxers Lucky Gattelari and Rocky Gattelari are Fortunato and Rocco.
3 Lionel Rose, world boxing champion, was an Australian of the Year.
4 (b) The bout between Tony Lythgoe and Stan Simpson at St George Leagues Club on 21 September 1965 was a draw because both fell out of the ring in the second round, hit their heads heavily on the floor, were knocked
unconscious and were unable to continue. (Australian Sport through Time)
5 (b) Boxing champion Bobby Czyz, Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis and former Playboy playmate Dr Julie Peterson all became members of the high IQ group Mensa.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 25 November 2018
Answers to this week's questions on Victorian elections:
1 (k) All of the Animal Justice, Ausie Battler, Health Australia, Local Jobs, Reason, Social Alliance, Sustainable Australia and Transport Matters parties are contesting this week's Victorian elections.
2 (b) or (c). The fine for not voting in Victoria is $20 first time and $50 for further failures to vote.
3 (a) Victorian elections are held on the fourth Saturday of November every four years.
4 The leader of the Labor Party and Victorian premier for the last four years has a name that is an anagram of 'in lead, wanders': Daniel Andrews.
5 Matthew Guy has led the Liberal/National coalition in Victoria for the last four years.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 18 November 2018
Answers to this week's questions on Bob Rogers:
1 (a) Bob Rogers rated first among morning music show hosts in the September 2010 Sydney radio survey, when he was aged 83.
2 (c) He has been in radio for 74 years.
3 He retired on 10 November 2018 at 91.
4 (c) The average age of the two morning presenters on 2CH and 2SM this month was 87 years 7 months. Bob Rogers is 91 years 11 months and John Laws 83 years 3 months.
5 (c) From 1995 to 2000 the highest-rating radio program on either of the jointly-owned 2GB and 2CH wasn't Bob Rogers program. It was Rev Gordon Moyes' four-hour Sunday Night Live.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 11 November 2018
Answers to this week's questions on World War 1:
1 World War 1 ended 100 years ago at 11am on 11 November 1918.
2 (a) Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated on 28 July 1914, causing the war to break out on that day.
3 Poland gained independence after 122 years on the date World War 1 ended.
4 (a) World War 1 was also known as The Great War.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 3 November 2018
Answers to this week's questions on bridges:
1 (b) The world's longest sea bridge links China with Hong Kong and Macau.
2 (c) It is 55km long.
3 At Gladesville you can drive the 1½ kilometres across the Gladesville, Tarban Creek and Figtree Bridges within two minutes.
4 Elephants last walked across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a promotion for Wirth's Circus in 1932. (Sydney Morning Herald 13-10-18)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 27 October 2018
Answers to this week's questions on the Wentworth by-election:
1 (c) Dave Sharma's first name is Devanand.
2 (a) He scored 100% in the Higher School Certificate.
3 He married Rachel Lord.
4 (c) The Greens' candidate, Dominic Wy Kanak, has a palindromic surname.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 20 October 2018
Answers to this week's questions on Prince Harry:
1 Prince Harry's full name is Henry Charles Albert David.
2 His title is Duke of Sussex.
3 He will be climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge on his visit to Sydney this month.
4 Five people are ahead of him in the line of succession to the throne: Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 13 October 2018
Answers to this week's questions on memory:
1 Dominic O'Brien won the world memory championships eight times.
2 (c) Rebecca Sharrock can recite every word of all the Harry Potter books.
3 (f) Kim Peek could (a) memorise every word of up to 12,000 books, including the Bible and the Book of Mormon (b) read two pages in about 10 seconds – the right page with his right eye and the left with his left eye simultaneously (c) learn phone books by heart (d) tell what day of the week a particular date fell upon going back decades (e) do a party trick of telling strangers the names of the people who used to live next door to them years ago.
4 The only English word beginning with mn is mnemonic, an aid to memory.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 6 October 2018
Answers to this week's questions on the ABC:
1 The ABC chairman and managing director both left in the last week.
2 2FC and 2BL were Sydney's two ABC stations for decades.
3 Australia's oldest radio station is the ABC's 702, which was 2BL and, before that, 2SB. 2SB was changed to 2BL to avoid phonetic confusion with 2FC, which became Radio National.
4 (b) In 1932 ABC radio broadcast chimes from London's Big Ben each morning at 7am.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 29 September 2018
Answers to this week's questions on Sydney suburb names:
1 Are the suburbs north and south of Strathfield called North Strathfield and South Strathfield or Strathfield North and Strathfield South? No. They're North Strathfield and Strathfield South according to the Government Names Board.
2 Of what Sydney suburbs are these Spoonerisms: Cane Love, Poison's Milt, Haker's Quill, Hidden Sam and Hennant Pills? Lane Cove, Milsons Point, Quakers Hill, Sydenham and Pennant Hills. (Sydney Morning Herald)
3 Three NSW town names of two identical words are Kurri Kurri, Wagga Wagga and Woy Woy. The Sydney suburb Curl Curl has this feature. Bow Bowing comes close, and Mooney Mooney comes close in that it is just outside Sydney suburbs.
4 The Sydney suburb name beginning wih double L is Llandilo.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 22 September 2018
Answers to this week's questions on strawberries:
1 Why are strawberry flavouring toppings pink, though strawberries are red? Firstly, cherry flavouring is red and you can't have two looking the same. Secondly, the flavouring gets diluted in the substance it is put in. The actual flavouring in the bottle is usually a deep crimson. (Sydney Morning Herald 31-5-03)
2 (c) Lots more than five ingredients are in a typical artificial strawberry flavour, like the kind found in a Burger King strawberry milk shake. Check the list here: http://www.feingold.org/strawberry.html
3 Unlike other fruits, strawberry seeds are on the outside.
4 (c) There are 200 seeds on the average strawberry.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 15 September 2018
Answers to this week's questions on the 2018 US Open tennis:
1 The players with unusual surnames who met in the third round of the 2018 US Open were Alex de Minaur (surname beginning with a lower-case letter) and Marin Cilic (Cilic is a palindrome).
2 What ladies singles quarter-final had one player with a surname three times as long as that of her opponent? Keys v Suarez Navarro
3 (b) The umpire gave Nick Kyrgios advice about settling down when he was down a set and a break in the second round.
4 Agnieszka Radwanska and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova gave the umpire some problems when they met in the 2013 US Open and both played this year.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 8 September 2018
Answers to this week's questions on prime minister Scott Morrison:
1 (c) Scott Morrison is Australia's first Pentecostal prime minister.
2 (c) Over a thousand people attend his Horizon Church's services on Sundays.
3 (b) Some of them speak in tongues during church services.
4 (b) Scott Morrison lives in a modest single-storey house. (Sun-Herald)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 1 September 2018
Answers to this week's questions on prime ministers sacked by their party's parliamentarians:
1 Malcolm Turnbull raises and lowers his right hand every second or two for emphasis in a talk.
2 Tony Abbott's surname puts him ahead of 99.99 per cent of the population alphabetically.
3 When former prime minister Julia Gillard faced a 30-minute interview on A Current Affair on 23 September 2014 she said "you know" 54 times.
4 (b) On the day after taking the prime minister position from Julia Gillard, Kevin Ruddd said "Try, just try, to be a little kinder and gentler to each other".
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 25 August 2018
Answers to this week's questions on the Great Barrier Reef:
1 (c) Government funding of nearly a billion dollars ($443 million) was given this month to saving the Great Barrier Reef.
2 What part of its body does the Great Barrier Reef hermaphrodite marine flatworm use as a weapon in a duel? Its private part.
3 (b) Scientist Dr Glenn De-ath has written about the death of the Great Barrier Reef coral.
4 The reef is the largest living thing on Earth.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 18 August 2018
Answers to this week's questions on earthquakes:
1 On the Richter Scale, each point is a 10-fold increase from the point below.
2 (c) The temporary cathedral that replaced the one destroyed in the Christchurch earthquake of 2011 was made of cardboard.
3 (c) About 100,000 earthquakes are felt each year.
4 You would find an earthquake pill in a Warner Brothers cartoon.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 11 August 2018
Answers to this week's questions on Sydney's City to Surf race:
1 The majority of runners in this event are now female.
2 (b) On only one of its first 40 years was there rain in the City to Surf.
3 Why did the male runner with the third-fastest time in the 2014 City to Surf race only come fourth? Places go according to finishing order. The third placegetter had a better nett time by one second.
4 We should be showing the event name as City2Surf.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 4 August 2018
Answers to this week's subject of Fairfax Media:
1 (c) The Herald has been published for 177 years.
2 (c) Giordano Bruno, after whom 2GB was named, was executed for believing that the earth revolved around the sun.
3 (b) When 2GB newsreader Terry Dear came across a difficult surname in an item he hadn't had time to pre-read he would say 'Mr Wheelbarrow' quickly. He was never queried by management or listeners.
4 (a) 2UE was founded by Electrical Utiliies. The call-sign 2EU was later changed to 2UE to make it easier to say.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 28 July 2018
Answers to this week's questions on golf:
1 (c) There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
2 (b) Sergio Garcia was 12 when he won his club's championship.
3 Champion golfer Steve Elkington is allergic to grass.
4 You qualify for the Bobby Jones Golf Classic by having the name Bobby Jones.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 21 July 2018
Answers to this week's questions on football:
1 Except for a very quick Wimbledon men's singles final scheduled for 11pm Sunday (Eastern Australian time) it overlaps the FIFA World Cup final starting at 1am.
2 (a) The one-match ban imposed on Italian soccer player Luigi Coluccio in November 1995 was unusual because he had been shot dead nine days earlier.
3 (a) $22 million of its $400 million total share market value was lost by the Newcastle club when Dale Shearer injured his ankle. (2UE)
4 (b) England last won a FIFA World Cup final in 1966.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 14 July 2018
Answers to this week's questions on caves and rescues:
1 None of the 12 soccer-playing boys trapped in the Thai cave are swimmers.
2 (b) During the 43 days Dr James Scott survived trapped in a Himalayan cave in 1992 he ate only one Mars Bar.
3 What Snowy Mountains event did the ABC, 7 and 9 Networks cover for about 10 hours on the one day in 1997and get huge ratings for, even though for most of that time either nothing was happening or the variation in action could have been condensed to a few minutes? The rescue of Stuart Diver from the Thredbo landslide.
4 (a) The first person rescued with a surf life-saving reel was Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. (ABC)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 7 July 2018
Answers to this week's questions on Wimbledon:
1 (a) It takes the groundsmen 22 seconds to cover a court at Wimbledon when rain starts.
2 Mark Edmondson and Kim Warwick played in a singles tournament in which they were both beaten in the early rounds. They had also entered the doubles together to practise, but once out of the singles they wanted to get to England early to practise for Wimbledon. Thus they tried to lose their next doubles match, but found that difficult because their opponents were trying to lose too, and for the same reason.
3 There will be no matches played at Wimbledon on 8 July. The first Sunday of the tournament is always a rest day.
4 (a) and (b) In his quarter-final match against Nick Kyrgios in 2014 Milos Raonic achieved both a golden service game (four aces) and nine consecutve love games on serve.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 30 June 2018
Answers to this week's questions on populations:
1 Australia's population is believed to have reached 25 million this month.
2 Residents of what country comprise 15 per cent of the population of the United Arab Emirates? The United Arab Emirates. Thus the other 85 per cent are foreigners.
3 China's capital, Beijing, is not its largest city. Shanghai is.
4 In 7800 BC, Jericho had a population of 2700. That made Jericho the world's largest (by population) settlement. (Guinness World Records)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 23 June 2018
Answers to this week's questions on football:
1 Australia beat American Samoa in the qualifying match for the 2002 World Cup in a World Cup record of 31-0.
2 The most common final score for a World Cup finals match is 1-0.
3 Brazilian football star Pelé's name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, but he is known as Pelé.
4 (c) Needing a good score to gain a place in Nigeria's Nationwide League Division 3 in 2013, Plateau United Feeders made seven goals in the first half of their match against Akurba FC. They scored 72 goals in the second half.
At the same time, Police Machine scored 61 goals against Babayaro in their second half after six in the first. (Sydney Morning Herald 10 July 2013)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 16 June 2018
Answers to this week's questions on Rafael Nadal:
1 Before each point Rafael Nadal uses the towel then while bouncing the ball with his racquet, uses his other hand to pull his shorts down, then uses his right hand on his left and right collar, nose, left ear, nose twice and finally right ear. Except for the towel, he also repeats the process between first and second serves.
2 He doesn't leave his chair before his opponent does, preferring to keep the opponent waiting.
3 (a) and (b). He hasn't won the Miami Open, but likes to be runner-up every three years, as in 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2017.
4 (c) Nadal had won the French Open 10 times before this year.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 9 June 2018
Answers to this week's questions on the French Open tennis:
1 (c) The last Australian to win the French Open women's singles was Margart Court in 1973.
2 The last Australian to win the men's singles was even further back: Rod Laver in 1969.
3 None of the six Australians in this year's French men's singles even won through to the second round.
4 (b) Before this year's championships, Rafael Nadal had won 79 of his 81 French matches.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 2 June 2018
Answers to this week's questions on Israel:
1 (b) The state of Israel is now 70 years old.
2 The British prime minister whose surname included 'Israel' was Benjamin Disraeli.
3 Most countries have their embassies in Tel Aviv.
4 (a) 'Tel Aviv' means 'hill of spring'.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 26 May 2018
Answers to this week's questions on weddings:
1 Prince Harry's wedding was telecast by ABC, SBS, 7, 9 and ABC News 24.
2 (b) The piece of Queen Victoria's wedding cake sold for £68 was 133 years old. (Ripley's Book of Chance)
3 Cryptic crossword clue: Wedding reception pair doctored (7): McBride (Dr McBride is an Australian doctor and the reception pair is the MC and the bride.)
4 (e) All of these accompanied the wedding of Auburn councilor Salim Mehajer in 2015: 4 helicopters, a fighter jet, a plane pulling a banner, Rolls Royces, Ferraris and Lamborghinis.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 19 May 2018
Answers to this week's questions on Malaysia:
1 This month's election in Malaysia was the only time an opposition party has won government in the country's six decades since independence.
2 (c) The new prime minister is 92.
3 (c) The 'Lumpur' in Kuala Lumpur means mud.
4 Until 2004, Malaysia's Petronas Twin Towers held the record for the world's tallest buildings.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 12 May 2018
Answers to this week's questions on eSwatini:
1 (a) The name eSwatini belongs to a small African land-locked country.
2 Until last month it was called Swaziland.
3 (b) Radio Swaziland's breakfast show in March, 2003, carried reports from the Iraq war from a broom cupboard in the then Swaziland capital, Mbabane
4 (a) Women in this country were not allowed to have sex from October 2001 to September 2005 during the king's tough approach to curtail AIDS. (Sydney Morning Herald)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 5 May 2018
Answers to this week's questions on the Koreas:
1 You can enter North Korea just by stepping over the line, like South Korea's president did on 27 April. In South Korea you take a tour to Panmunjom, and enter the Demilitarised Zone. The room where talks take place straddles the border. You can walk around the talks table and in doing so, you enter North Korea.
2 (c) The penalty for talking in school or work sessions after a warning in South Korean youth detention centres has been 20 days isolated detention.
3 Most Koreans eat kimchi with every meal, or at least daily.
4 The majority of North and South Koreans have the same surname, Kim.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 28 April 2018
Answers to this week's questions on banks:
1 (c) The St George Foundation gives 100 per cent of each dollar raised to its chidlren's charities because the bank pays all administration costs.
2 What is unusual about the double 'm' in the Commonwealth Bank name as shown on all its building signs? The two letters are joined together.
3 Australia's oldest company is Westpac Bank, formerly known as Bank of New South Wales.
4 What Australian bank's name, as seen on its signs, means 'catch in the act of wrongdoing'? NAB (National Australia Bank)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 21 April 2018
Answers to this week's questions on the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games swimming:
1 (c) Australia finished first, second and third in the 50m men's backstroke and SB8 100m breaststroke finals.
2 Bronte Campbell won gold in the 100m freestyle. Her sister Cate came second.
3 Cate Campbell won the gold medal in the 50m freestyle. Sister Bronte came second.
4 No-one came third because there was a dead heat for second.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 14 April 2018
Answers to this week's questions on Kim Beazley:
1 Even though a prominent republican, Kim Beazley becomes Western Australia's governor on 1 May.
2 His middle name is Christian.
3 Kim Beazley, Winston Churchill, Bill Clinton, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Joe Hockey and Robert Menzies smoked cigars.
4 (b) Kim Beazley's mother was an Australian and world athletics record holder.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 7 April 2018
Answers to this week's subject on cricket problems:
1 Before the sandpaper, the latest major controversial Australian cricket incident was the under-arm bowl, designed to prevent England drawing the match with a six.
2 The difference between the two was that the under-arm bowl was legitimate.
3 England's Bodyline series in the 1932–33 Ashes tests made the Sunday Telegraph list of the top 10 Australian events of the 1900s.
4 The devil's number in Australian cricket is 87, 13 short of a century.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 31 March 2018
Answers to this week's questions on fires:
1 (a) and (c). A seam of coal under the Burning Mountain, near Wingen NSW, is believed to have spontaneously combusted several thousand years ago. It may be the world's longest-burning fire. (Guinness World Records)
2 Lena Gilbert Ford, who wrote the words to the song, "Keep the Home Fires Burning", burned to death in her home. (Absolute Trivia)
3 As a Rural Fire Service volunteer, Alex Noble fought lots of fires. Why wasn't this considered noble? He was jailed for two years in 2014 for lighting 15 of them in 2012 and 2013, and for another eight years in 2016 for a 2013 fire.
4 Bernie Cinders was an inspector in the NSW Fire Brigade.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 24 March 2018
Answers to this week's questions on Australian politicians' quotes:
1 New rugby league boss, Peter Beattie, when asked 'The team that plays out of the Sutherland Shire - is it the Cronulla Hawks, the Cronulla Seagulls or the Cronulla Sharks?' replied: 'I'll be honest. I wouldn't have a bloody clue, but I'll know next week. It's got to be Cronulla of some kind.'
2 Julia Gillard pronounced 'hyperbole' as 'hyperbowl'.
3 Gough Whitlam said to a campaign questioner 'I am for abortion and in your case, sir, we should make it retrospective'.
4 Did Kristina Keneally support Kevin Rudd's request for Australia to nominate him for secretary-general of the United Nations? No. She said: 'I can think of 12 Australians off the top of my head who would be a better secretary-general and one of them is my labrador.'
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 17 March 2018
Answers to this week's questions on antigrams:
1 An antigram of 'unite' is 'untie'.
2 From 'nice love' we get 'violence'.
3 'Real fun' gives 'funeral'.
4 'True lady' is an antigram of 'adultery'.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 10 March 2018
Answers to this week's questions on Mormons:
1 The full name of the Mormon church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
2 (b) An angel threatened Joseph Smith to force him to have multiple wives.
3 (a) The Old Testament doesn't record God specifically prohibiting polygamy.
4 Mitt Romney, Republican nominee for US president in the 2012 election, gives millions of dollars in tithe to his Mormon church.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 3 March 2018
Answers to this week's questions on Billy Graham:
1 Billy Graham was 99 when he died on 21 February.
2 (b) George Beverly Shea, Billy Graham's main singer at their crusades, died at 104. He was still singing at 102.
3 (c) Billy Graham appeared in Gallup's annual list of most-admired men and women a record 61 times.
4 (b) The largest crowd he spoke in front of was over a million at Seoul, South Korea. He also held the record for the largest Melbourne Cricket Ground attendance.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 24 February 2018
Answers to this week's questions on the Winter Olympics:
1 American ski jumper Casey Larson became the 100,000th male modern Olympian this month.
2 The first combined North and South Korean team to compete in an Olympics contested the women's ice hockey. It lost 8-0.
3 Winter Olympics were held in both 1992 and 1994 instead of the normal four-year gap to start having the winter and summer versions in different years.
4 The name of the figure skater partner of Australia's first Indigenous Winter Olympian, Harley Windsor, contains six As: Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 17 February 2018
Answers to this week's questions on the Winter Olympics:
1 The Winter Olympics are being held just 80km from North Korea and the world's most heavily-fortified border.
2 North and South Korea are combining for this Olympics.
3 The events are being held in Pyeongchang. The North Korean capital is Pyongyang.
4 The first events were held the day before the Opening Ceremony.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 10 February 2018
Answers to this week's questions on South Korea:
1 (c) President Kim Dae-jung granted an amnesty to 5.5 million South Koreans on 13 March 1998, although many of them were traffic offenders. (BBC)
2 (c) The world's longest-serving political prisoner or prisoner of conscience, Woo Yong-gak, was released from prison in South Korea in February 1999 after he had served 41 years in solitary confinement.
3 Can you walk from Jindo Island to Modo Island in South Korea? Yes, usually three times a year, in March, May and July, when a 40-metre wide sandbar emerges at low tide to temporarily connect the islands that are 2.8km apart.
4 (a) Cha Sa-soon, a 69-year-old woman in South Korea finally passed her driving test on her 960th attempt in September 2010. Her surname meant vehicle. (Boston Globe)
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 3 February 2018
Answers to this week's questions on trains:
1 No trains leave Wynyard station’s platforms 1 and 2. They were used by trams. The only platforms now are numbered 3 to 6.
2 The only railway station in Australia inaccessible by roadis Wondabyne, on the Hawkesbury River.
3 Hobart never has any passenger trains running late because it doesn't have any passenger trains.
4 The world's steepest passenger railway is at Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 27 January 2018
Answers to last week's questions on Australian Open tennis:
1 In the first round of this year's Australian Open, did Maria Sharapova win the Maria Sharapova match? Yes. Maris Sharapova beat Tatjana Maria.
2 You know Maria Sharapova or Aryna Sabalenka are playing on another court if you hear a long, loud scream after every shot.
3 How long is it since an Australian won the Australian Open men's singles? (a) more than 10 years (b) more than 20 years (c) more than 40 years. All options are correct. It's been 42 years, since 1976.
4 How long is it since an Australian won the Australian Open women's singles? (a) more than 10 years (b) more than 20 years (c) more than 40 years. The first two options are correct. It's been 40 years - since 1978.
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 20 January 2018
Answers to last week's questions on tennis players' names:
1 What US Open women's semi-finalist has a first name with these features: four letters but only two different letters and two capital letters? CoCo Vandeweghe
2 The US male player with a surname beginning with double M is Michael Mmoh.
3 What 18-year-old Australian player has a surname beginning with lower case 'd'? Alex de Minaur
4 What German player has a surname ending in five consonants, wczyk? Peter Gojowczyk
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 13 January 2018
1 What do these four terms have in common? lovely volley, ocean canoe, Newark wanker, Yemen enemy. They are all pairagrams (anagrams of each other).
2 "Woman Hitler" is an anagram of mother-in-law.
3 What Sydney suburb name (4,4) is an anagram of the two torments of teenage years, "love" and "acne"? Lane Cove. (David Astle)
4 What decision-making executives' gathering is an anagram of "I get bored, man!" (5,7) Board meeting
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Free Trivia Answers to Questions for week ending 6 January 2018
Answers to last week's questions on the Sydney to Hobart yacht race:
1 (c) The Sydney to Hobart yacht race line honours record was broken in 2016 by nearly five hours, to 1 day 13 ½ hours.
2 (c) It was broken in the 2017 event by over four hours
3 Wild Oats XI finished first in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race five times in the six years to 2010, but the record for number of firsts is given to Morna (1946, 1947 and 1948) and Kurrewa IV (1954, 1956, 1957 and 1960). How can this be? Morna was renamed Kurrewa IV.
4 Jessica Watson was unable to sail in the 2010 Sydney to Hobart yacht race after having completed her six-month solo sail around the world earlier in the year because at 16, she was too young.
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