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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 24 May 2013

This week's subject is crosswords.

1 What does The Sydney Morning Herald publish this week? (a) its 200th Omega crossword (b) its 2000th quick crossword (c) its 20,000th cryptic crossword

2 What is the solution to this clue from the Herald's first cryptic crossword? You may expect to find Arabs here (5)

3 The answer to this one appears backwards in the clue itself: In part USA makes progressing East-West relations work (4,5)

4 A Roman numerals clue: 5 + 0 + I + 500 = 0 (4)

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 17 May 2013

This week's subject is Malaysia.

1 For how long has Malaysia's ruling coalition, returned after this month's election, been in power? (a) only two months (b) nearly 20 years (c) over half a century

2 What is Malaysia's top traditional sport?

3 In Malaysia's top traditional sport, for how long can the item that the sport revolves round be kept in motion? (a) 2 seconds (b) 2 minutes (c) 2 hours

4 What determined that the last flights to Mulu airport, Malaysia, must arrive by 4pm? (a) late afternoon thunderstorm activity (b) industrial action by pilots wanting to be home for dinner (c) millions of bats

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 10 May 2013

This week's subject is the Blue Mountains.

1. What significant Australian exploring feat began 200 years ago on 11 May 1813?

2. Until 1998, how many of the famous Three Sisters rock formations were under the control of the Blue Mountains Council? (If you guess correctly, you're brilliant!)

3. What is the name of the bridge over the Great Western Highway at Katoomba? (a) Colless Bridge (b) Dawn Colless Bridge (c) Aunty Dawn Colless Bridge

4. What is the name of the bridge over the Great Western Highway at Leura? (a) Cooper Bridge (b) Joan Cooper Bridge (c) Aunty Joan Cooper Bridge (d) Aunty Joan Cooper AOM Bridge

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 3 May 2013

This week's subject is horse racing.

1 How many of her 25 races did Black Caviar win?

2 A British racehorse born in 1773 had the name Potoooooooo. How was the name pronounced?

3 Athletics track events are run anti-clockwise. What about Australian horse racing?

4 Bookmakers offered 66-1 against the jockey Duc of Alburquerque in the Grand National. What was the 66-1 against?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 26 April 2013

This week's subject is US Masters Golf:

1 Adam Scott won this month's US Masters. How many Australians beat him to that honour in the 77-year history of the event?

2 Does Adam Scott reside on the Gold Coast, in Bermuda or in Switzerland?

3 Until 2012, to which one group of people did the Augusta National Golf Club, home of the US Masters, refuse membership? (a) people with a criminal conviction, however small (b) women (c) anyone under 21 (d) those without US passports (e) atheists

4 The English sporting authority The Observer listed its 10 worst chokers in the history of sport. Who was the Australian who topped the list with his US Masters' result?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 19 April 2013

This week's subject is Margaret Thatcher

1 What British prime minister said: 'The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money'?

2 How many of the 69 British prime ministers before Margaret Thatcher were female?

3 What was Margaret Thatcher commonly called?

4 Cryptic crossword clue: Italian hunter will soundly net Margaret Thatcher, for instance (10)

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 12 April 2013

This week's subject is North Korea.

1 How can you enter North Korea without a visa?

2 What term do journalists use to describe North Korea?

3 What is unique about the current president of North Korea?

4 What is odd about North Korea's declaration of a state of war with South Korea?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 5 April 2013

This week's subject is Australian politics.

1. Who is the federal minister whose first name is an anagram of his surname?

2. What federal department has the longest name?

3. In 1998, what was the occupation of Dominic Fischer, son of 52-year-old deputy prime minister, Tim Fischer?

4. What is the first name of the father of former federal opposition leader, Kim Beazley?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 29 March 2013

This week's subject is Rome.

1. What position does Rome hold in the list of first cities to reach a population of 1 million?

2. Where did the Turkish bath originate? (a) Ankara (b) Istanbul (c) Rome

3. What areas of buildings in Rome were most bombed during World War II?

4. How many people are granted an audience with the Pope at each weekly Wednesday meeting when he is in Rome? (a) 10 (b) 100 (c) 10 000

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 22 March 2013

This week's subject is test cricket.

1. For what reason were four of the Australian team sacked from the third test against India which began on 14 March? (a) assaulting members of the India team (b) being in a drunken rampage throught streets of New Delhi at 3am (c) not doing their homework

2. What record for test cricket hat tricks did ex-Pakistan captain Wasim Akram achieve?

3. Who has the highest batting average in test cricket history?

4. Why did the wife of Victoria's Roy Park miss his whole career as a test cricket batsman? (a) she died before his first test (b) she had no interest in cricket (c) she dropped a ball of wool

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 15 March 2013

This week's subject is Venezuela.

1. What did Venezuelan government officials shout at the end of the announcement of the death of President Hugo Chavez this month?

2. Why should hearing the name 'Venezuela' make you think of a hunting boat on an Italian canal?

3. How many stars are there on Venezuela's flag? (a) none (b) 1 (c) 8

4. How many ice-cream flavours has Manuel da Silva Oliveira in his shop in Merida, Venezuela? (a) one, vanilla (b) 21 (c) 610

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 8 March 2013

This week's subject is Vatican State.

1. Besides Vatican State, which is surrounded by Italy, what are the only other two countries/states which are completely surrounded by another country?

2. What is the only state that is smaller than the Vatican?

3. What country/state/territory has the highest percentage of population belonging to the same religion?

4. How does Saudi Arabia respond to criticism by the Vatican of Saudi Arabia's refusal to allow Catholic churches to be built in their country?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 1 March 2013

With its decision to change from broadsheet to tabloid format in March, this week's subject is The Sydney Morning Herald.

1 The Sydney Morning Herald is Australia's oldest surviving newspaper. What is the second oldest? (a) The Age, Melbourne (b) Daily Telegraph, Sydney (c) Maitland Mercury

2 What common word was dropped by the Herald in November 2012?

3 After two men were shot dead by Sydney police within a week in March, 2012, how did The Sydney Morning Herald report the second incident? (a) A police critical incident investigation was under way last night following the second fatal police shooting in a week (b) A police critical incident investigation was under way last night after a man was killed by an officer for the second time in a week

4 For how long was Lindsey Browne a crossword compiler for the Herald? (a) 68 years (b) 28 years (c) a February only – 28 days

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 22 February 2013

This week's subject is Pope Benedict XVI.

1. What did Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger have in common?

2. How many years is it since another pope retired? (a) 66 (b) nearly 600 (c) just over 1600

3. To what youth organisation did Pope Benedict XVI belong?

4. What is Pope Benedict XVI's full title? And congratulations if you get that right.

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 15 February 2013

This week's subject is drugs in sport.

1. Last week's Crime Commission report said it had found major taking of drugs by Australian sporting teams. What slogan had the Essenedon Football Club chosen for 2013?

2. What does the US firm Clear Test provide for those sports people and others worried about drug testing?

3. Did China, suspected of drug use by its team, win any of the 16 gold medals on offer for swimming at the 1994 world championships?

4. What did drugs cheat Lance Armstrong have in common with Charlie Chaplin, Vanilla Ice, Eartha Kitt, Eminet, Bill Clinton, and Naomi Campbell? (a) they were born on April 25 (b) their fathers' first name was Bill (c) they never knew their fathers

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 8 February 2013

This week's subject is Mali.

1. What country's name is an anagram of another country's capital?

2. Does the fabled town Timbuktu, defined in some dictionaries as an inaccessible place, really exist?

3. The Oxford English Dictionary calls Timbuktu 'the most distant place imaginable'. In what four words is Timbuktu most often mentioned when discussing a long distance?

4. How often does the village chief who lives in a cliff cave in Mali's Dogon Desert descend from the cave to his village each year? (a) on one day a year (b) once a week, but in summer only (c) every day, of course

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 1 February 2013

This week's subject is Australian Open 2013:

1. How long did Maria Sharapova take to lose her first game in the 2013 Australian Open? (a) about 80 seconds (b) 28 games

2. In how many of her matches did she win 12 consecutive games?

3. Why was Tomic's match on the first Saturday of the 2013 event played on Court 8 instead of the main arena?

4. Do the 2013 Australian Open men's doubles champions, twins Bob and Mike Bryan, play tennis identically?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 25 January 2013

This week's subject is the Australian Open tennis.

1. How many commentators did the Seven Network have for its coverage of the 2012 Australian Open? (a) 7 (b) 16

2. Would a player on one of the main courts at the 2012 Australian Open have been able to spot a sign bearing the name Kia?

3. What was odd about the 2012 Australian Open web site reports of 'six-foot-10' Ivo Karlovic and 'six-foot-nine' John Isner?

4. Did all of Australia's nine players win their matches on the first day of the 2013 Australian Open?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 18 January 2013

This week's subject is 2013.

1. The four numbers in 2013 are all different. How many years is it since that last happened?

2. 2013 is a mix of four consecutive numbers. When did that last happen?

3. When will it next happen?

4. How many months this year will have 28 days?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 11 January 2013

It's the holiday season, so continuing in last week's mood, this week's subject is Nonsense.

1. What did Attila the Hun and Catherine the Great have in common?

2. Why don't you need a parachute to skydive?

3. What is the main reason for divorce?

4. What can you never eat for breakfast?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 4 January 2013

This week's subject is light globes.

1. How many politicians does it take to change a light globe?

2. How many Labor Party politicians does it take to change a light globe?

3. How many movie actresses does it take to change a light globe?

4. How many preachers does it take to change a light globe?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 28 December 2012

This week's subject is New Year.

1. When is Silvester?

2. Until a couple of decades ago, the season's greeting was always 'Merry Christmas and a P--------- New Year. What was the word beginning with 'P'?

3. The United Nations has designated 2013 as the International Year of what? (a) Water Co-operation (b) Quinoa (c) both (d) neither

4. What Australian capital city celebrates its centenary in 2013?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 21 December 2012

This week's subject is Christmas.

1. What do David Jones stores do with their Christmas decorations on the 25th?

2. Are there any contradictions between the accounts of Jesus' birth as recorded by the gospel writers Mark and John?

3. Did the type of bed Jesus was placed in at birth show that his parents were rich or poor?

4. What is a Nowel? What is a Nowell?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 14 December 2012

With 21 December being what some calculate as our end according to the Mayan calendar, this week's subject is calendars.

1. How many months were there in a Mayan year? (a) 12, of course, otherwise the 21 December date wouldn't apply (b) 18 (c) it didn't have months

2. What happened in England between 3 and 13 September 1752? If you don't know, answer nothing.

3. Of months that include a Friday 13th, on what day of the week do they mostly start?

4. What unnecessarily long terms did we use to describe 2000 before and after, and 2010 before and for its first week or so?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 7 December 2012

With 7 December 2012 being the 40th anniversary of the launch for the last moon landing, the moon is this week's subject.

1. What is the maiden name of the mother of Buzz Aldrin, the second person to set foot on the moon?

2. Men from how many countries have set foot on the moon?

3. Do our moon, sun and solar system have a name?

4. What do the moon and the Mariana Trench have in common, or rather in opposites?

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