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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 10 February 2012

This week's subject is shoes.

1. What are Australia's three most famous shoes?

2. How many pairs of shoes did Imelda Marcos, wife of former Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos, own when he was ousted in 1986? (a) 3 (b) 300 (c) 3000

3. How many things that you can wear on your feet begin with 's'?

4. What is the official school footwear on Lord Howe Island?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 3 February 2012

With Kodak's filing for bankruptcy, this week's subject is photography.

1. What percentage of U.S. photographic film sales did Kodak attain with its Kodachrome? (a) almost 50% (b) 75% (c) 90%

2. Kodak's bankruptcy was caused by the digital camera era. What company produced the first digital camera?

3. Whose death did legendary Australian cameraman Neil Davis capture on film in 1985 when he was covering an attempted coup in Bangkok?

4. Five security cameras at 363 George Street, Sydney, caught a thief in the act of committing his offences on 28 and 29 November 2000. What was he stealing?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 27 January 2012

This week's subject is the Australian of the Year award.

1. How many people have won the title Australian of the Year more than once?

2. Why was there no 1993 Australian of the Year?

3. Who are the only brothers to have both been Australian of the Year? (a) Galarrwuy Yunupingu and Mandawuy Yunupingu (b) Steve Waugh and Mark Waugh (c) Peter Costello and Tim Costello

4. What occupation gives you the best chance of being Australian of the Year? (a) charity worker (b) medical doctor (c) sports champion

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 20 January 2012

With Australia and India playing a test cricket series, this week's subject is India.

1. Does Australia or India celebrate a national holiday on January 26?

2. Does a unicorn, a wheel or a xylophone appear on the Indian flag?

3. What shape are playing cards in India?

4. All-India Radio broadcast funeral music and schools and shops were closed on 22 March 1979 when Indian prime minister Morarji Desai informed parliament that Jayaprakash Narayan, patriot and elder statesman, had died. Who was most surprised by the tributes?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 13 January 2012

This week's subject is the Samoan dateline change.

1. When Samoa dropped 30 December from its calendar last month by moving to west of the dateline, what was Saturday became Sunday for them. Did Seventh-day Adventists (Saturday observers everywhere else) decide to have Sunday as their sacred day to retain their seven-day cycle, or switch to the new Saturday?

2. What did the only known Jew in Samoa decide to do?

3. Have flights between Samoa and the nearby tiny country Tokelau been affected?

4. What has American Samoa done?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 6 January 2012

As for the January holiday season in 2011, this week's subject is changing light globes.

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

2. How many pedants does it take to change a light globe?

3. How many orthodox rabbis does it take to change a light globe?

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

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 30 December 2011

This week's subject is the New Year.

1. On 31 December 1956, the first year of TV in Australia, compare Brian Henderson ecstatically told the audience for the first long distance outside telecast by Sydney's channel Nine that he had just been informed that a good picture was being received at the station. Where was the picture coming from? (a) London (b) Perth (c) Nearby Katoomba

2. When did New Year's Eve and New Year's Day last fall in the same year?

3. How does the religious group, the Assemblies of Yahweh, determione the start of the New Year? (a) It observes the Jewish New Year, but has to ask Orthodox Jews for the date (b) Its head flies from Pennsylvania to Israel each year to check for green ears of barley (c) It looks at the calendar, like everyone else

4. If you aren't wished a "Happy New Year", what kind of New Year are you most likely to be wished?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 23 December 2011

This week's subject is Christmas.

1. What did the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife receive on Christmas Day 1989? (a) a visit from the US president (b) their execution (c) a gift of over 1.3 million US dollars (then equivalent to nearly 2 million Australian dollars) as a bribe to release a multi-murderer

2. What is a Noel?

3. What Biblical person who is the antithesis of Santa has a name that is an anagram of Santa?

4. What name associated with Christmas is an anagram of 'He's fat, smart, rich' (6,9)?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 16 December 2011

This week's subject is Google.

1. What was the third most popular overall search on Google in 2011?

2. What is a Googlewhackblatt?

3. What happens if you Google 'the'?

4. Would it take you very long to check each Google entry for 'the', if you could do one every six seconds without any time off?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 9 December 2011

This week's subject is police.

1. Several thousand angry demonstrators took to the streets to demonstrate outside Sydney's Parliament House in November. Why was there not even one arrest?

2. Why did Sydney police use the friendly term 'mate' when addressing an offender who assaulted police, causing one to have a dislocated shoulder, on 13 August 2004?

3. Why is it difficult for a police officer in the Pacific state Niue to get a promotion to a supervisory position?

4. For how many years was J Edgar Hoover director of the FBI? (a) 25 (b) nearly 50 (c) more than 60

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 2 December 2011

Sir Douglas Mawson sailed from Hobart 100 years ago on 2 December for the Australian Antarctic Expedition. Antarctica is this week's subject.

1. When Douglas Mawson struggled back to his hut in Antarctica on 8 February 1913 after a failed three-month attempt to reach the South Pole, he learned that he had missed his ship that would have returned him to Australia by only a few hours. How long did he have to wait for the next ship? (a) three days (b) three weeks (c) until the following year

2. Which continent has the least number of countries?

3. On what continent is Rome?

4. How did 10-year-old Robert Schumann manage to reach the south pole by mountain bike?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 25 November 2011

This week's subject is Australian phone numbers.

1. Is the Australian phone number for emergencies 000 or 112?

2. What media organisation has the Sydney phone number 8777 7777 and address PO Box 777, Pyrmont?

3. What media organisation's Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth phone numbers all end in 1010 and text number ends in 101010?

4. Why is the eight-digits (all different) phone number, beginning with 8, for the ACER Arena at Sydney's Olympic Park easy to remember?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 18 November 2011

With the visit to Australia of the American president, this week's subject is Barack Obama.

1. Crossword clue: Freezing American president (5)

2. After taking the oath, President Obama said that 'forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath'. But only 43 had. Why was this?

3. What physical characteristic has been noticeable in four of the last five US presidents, but not George W Bush?

4. What is Barack Obama's middle name?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 11 November 2011

With Australia's Remembrance Day falling on Friday 11/11/11, this week's subjects is ones.

1. At 11 seconds after 11.11am on 11 November 2011, a digital clock will read 111111111111. How long will we have to wait before something like that appears again?

2. What is the simplest way to change 111,111,111 into 12,345,678,987,654,321?

3. How many consecutive service games did Victorian Wayne Arthurs win in the 1999 Wimbledon championships?

4. If you type 1 50 times (111111 etc) in a Google search, how many responses do you get? (a) over 700,000 (b) nearly 1,300 (c) none, of course

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 4 November 2011

This week's subject is horse racing.

1. In what sport was G. Gee prominent in the 1890s?

2. What six-word term is guaranteed to be over-used in the Australian media on the day before and on Melbourne Cup day?

3. Sisters Kathy and Tracy both rode in the same race at Gosford on 29 December 2005. Where did they finish?

4. What characteristics were shared by NSW Gaming and Racing Minister Grant McBride and his successor, Graham West? (a) they were both non-gamblers (b) they were both non-drinkers (c) they were both non-gamblers and non-drinkers

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 28 October 2011

This week's subject is marathon running.

1. How old was Fauja Singh when he completed this month's Toronto marathon in eight hours 11 minutes?

2. From what town was Pheidippides, a Greek soldier, said to have run the first marathon?

3. Which of these are annual marathons? North Pole Marathon, Santa Claus Marathon, Antarctic Ice Marathon and Sahara Marathon

4. Most marathon events provide water at intervals of 2½ kilometres and sports drinks each 5 kilometres. What about Bordeaux's Le Marathon du Medoc?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 21 October 2011

With the death this month of Steve Jobs, this week's subject is apples.

1. The annual salary from 1997-2000 of Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, was $1. Why, then, did he stay in the job? (a) for love of computers (b) for other benefits (c) for status

2. Of what is 'Pod' an acronym?

3. What poison is in apple pips and apricot kernels?

4. What connects Adam, Isaac Newton and William Tell?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 14 October 2011

With the royal visit to Australia this month, this week's subject is Queen Elizabeth II.

1. Where was the then Princess Elizabeth when news came through of the death of her father, King George VI, on 6 February 1952? (a) in jail (b) up a tree (c) under a car

2. Why was 2 June selected for Queen Elizabeth II's 1953 coronation, and did the selection prove wise?

3. For her 2000 Australian Royal tour, how many pairs of gloves were included in the Queen's luggage? (a) 50 (b) 25 (c) none, 30 were readied but the container was forgotten

4. In October 2008, Queen Elizabeth was seen wearing the same red outfit that she wore in April. What is significant about that?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 7 October 2011

This week's subject is AFL football.

1. What was the distance between goalposts in the first AFL match? (a) 13m (b) 22m (c) more than 22m

2. Peter FitzSimons wrote in his newspaper column on the morning of last year's AFL grand final: "In this column, this year, I have consistently backed the wrong side to win in every contest I have addressed my attention to! I'm talking: World Cup soccer matches, NRL games, Origins, Bledisloe Tests, key AFL clashes, you name it. Wrong every time! Last week, shattered, I finally gave up my predictions and wimped out, by writing of the AFL grand final: 'St Kilda/ Collingwood. Whose hard-luck story will continue today? Whose will end? The only thing for sure is that one will actually win!'" What was the result of that match?

3. St Kilda last won an AFL grand final in 1966. How close have they been since?

4. This year's AFL grand final was the last for Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse. For how many matches had he been a senior coach? (a) only 2 (b) nearly 100 (c) 664

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 30 September 2011

This week’s subject is rugby league.

1. In how many of the years from 1956 to 1966 did St George win the Sydney rugby league premiership?

2. During what activity did Manly utility back David Liddlard pull a back muscle? (a) running onto the field (b) running off the field (c) brushing his teeth

3. Who is the most widely-known member of the South Sydney Football Club?

4. Why did Will Hopoate turn down a million-dollar contract for two years? (a) to be a Mormon missionary (b) because of an injury to his nose (c) to join the American Samoan navy

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 23 September 2011

This week's subject is national flags.

1. Until last month, what were the colours of the Libyan flag?

2. What comprises Greenland's flag? (a) a rectangle with a white top half and red bottom half, containing a circle with a red top half and white bottom half (b) a rectangle resembling a chess board except that the black squares are red (c) Greenland doesn't have a flag

3. What are the only two countries (one a state) that have a square flag?

4. What is the only country's flag that is not rectangular or square?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 16 September 2011

This week's subject is rugby union.

1. How many tries were scored in the 2007 World Cup final?

2. The name of what former England international winger is also the name of a car make and model?

3. What did those of the Uruguayan rugby players who survived for 72 days in the Andes after the crash of their plane in 1972 eat to stay alive?

4. The 15 members of the Mombasa Rugby Football Club flew 760km to Uganda in 1974 for their annual needle match against the Harlequins. Where were the Harlequins and what were they doing while the Mombasa players were in flight?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 9 September 2011

This week's subject is terrorism.

1. What happened on these famous dates, and why are they easily remembered? (a) 7 December, 1941 (b) 14 February 1966 (c) 11 September, 2001

2. What word were BBC newsreaders prohibited from using by the deputy news editor in November 2001 to describe terrorists?

3. Where were British couple Jason and Jenny Cairns-Lawrence, from Dudley, near Birmingham, on 11 September 2001, 7 July 2005 and 26 November 2008?

4. By changing one letter in the first name of a terrorist leader you get the surname of the president who ordered the mission that killed him. What are the two names?

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Trivia Quiz: Questions for week ending 2 September 2011

This week's subject is Israel.

1. What is Israel considering moving? (a) its border with Syria (b) its border with Jordan (c) its border with Egypt (d) its weekend

2. When does the new day start in Israel? (a) sunset (b) midnight

3. How did Max Dadashvili break his back in Israel? (a) by falling when placing a written back-healing prayer request between the top two rows of bricks in Jerusalem's "waling wall" {b) by drinking coffee in a Tel Aviv restaurant when a would-be suicide landed on him from three storeys above (c) by lifting large earthenware pots in an attempt to repeat the miracle of turning (Dead Sea) water into wine

4. On 22 January 1996 the lengthy deliberations of an Israeli court were reported around the world. What was the court investigating? (a) the kidnapping by Mossad, the Israeli secret service, of Iraq's military chief of staff (b) a bail application by the Israeli accused of murdering Prime Minister Rabin (c) whether a middle-aged male prisoner serving 10 years could have a life-size inflatable doll in his cell

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