GENERAL

1. Who wrote the novel 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?

2. What is the birthstone of the Gemini star sign?

3. Bombay Sapphire and Gordons are both varieties of what?

4. Complete the phrase, ‘every cloud…’?

5. What two languages are most commonly spoken in Israel?

6. How many miles is 5280 feet equivalent to?

7. How many US states begin with the letter A?

8. What disorder is abbreviated to OCD?

9. Which country hosted the 2016 Olympics?

10. Which animal comes first in the English dictionary?

JANE

1. Which Australian author debuted with her novel The Dry?

2. Who is buried alongside Henry VIII of England?

3. Which actor/activist from a well-known Hollywood family said “I have a fake hip, knee, thumb; more metal in me

than a bionic woman, but I can still do Pilates.”?

4. What British primatologist was given a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee, as an alternative to a teddy bear,

when she was a child?

5. Under what pen name did Charlotte Bronte write Jane Eyre?

6. Who played Captain Kathryn Janeway in the TV series Star Trek Voyager?

7. Which very noice Australian comedian appeared on the TV show Prisoner?

8. Which "Jane" was the first American motion picture actress to appear nude in a legitimate major motion picture?

9. Who played Bubble on the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous?

10. Who had a husband named George, a daughter Judy, a son Elroy and a dog called Astro?

Pauline Clark

RUSSIA

1. What is the official name for Russia?

2. What is the capital city of Russia?

3. What was Vladimir Putin’s job before he began his political career?

4. What was the name of the word’s first satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957?

5. Vodka is comprised of water and what? (think cars)

6. Russia is located across how many time zones? (7, 8 or 9)

7. What Russian river is the longest in Europe?

8. What type of alphabet do the Russians use?

9. T o F - Russia is very corrupt. It is ranked 127 out of 177 on Transparency International’s 2013 Corruption Per-

ception Index.

10. In 1963 Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in the world to go where?

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

1. What are the names of the cards placed in the centre of the Monopoly

board?

2. What have Scalextric manufactured since the 1950s?

3. What rank is Mr Mustard in Cluedo?

4. How many dominoes are in a standard double 6 Domino set?

5. In which game would you ‘twitter the sparrows’?

6. Which board game from the 1960s has a cheesy spinner?

7. What animal was depicted on the Last Straw board game?

8. In Operation, what happens if a player touches the body while attempting

to remove an organ?

9. How many wedges do you need to win a game of Trivial Pursuit?

10. The phrase “back to square one” is influenced by which board game?

LIVING IN THE 70s

1. Living in the 70's, released in October 1974, was the debut album by which Melbourne band ?

2. ‘It’s Time’ was a slogan to promote what event in 1972?

3. Australia’s first legal what opened in 1973 in Hobart?

4. In what year of the 70s was colour television first broadcast in Australia?

5. Who was the first Aboriginal barrister appointed to the bar?

6. What suspicious event occurred in Griffith in July of 1977?

7. What life-changing, hearing device was developed in Melbourne in 1979?

8. What painting, by Jackson Pollock, caused a controversy for the National Gallery of Australia?

9. Who was Neville Bonner?

10. Which Australian athlete won 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze at the Munich Olympics?