GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1. What is the chemical symbol for the element Thorium?
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2. What is the basic unit of currency of Norway?
3. Name the ship that sank the ‘Bismark’.
4. The faces of how many US Presidents are carved into the side of Mt Rushmore?
5. What are the colours worn by the AFL team St Kilda?
6. In which year during World War II did Italy declare war on the Allies?
7. Which actress married playwright Arthur Miller in 1956?
8. Who was the female star of the movie “A Fish Called Wanda”?
9. What is the capital of Turkmenistan?
10. To whom did Nova Peris-Kneebone pass the Olympic flame in June 2000?
11. At which newspaper does Clark Kent work?
12. Does the book of Psalms appear in the New or Old Testament of the Bible?
13. Who was the Australian Prime Minister between 1945 and 1949?
14. What do we call a period of 10 years?
15. What are browngoods?
SPORT
16. How many feathers are there usually on a shuttlecock?
17. Which netball position is abbreviated to GK?
18. To win a quinella you must pick the horses that finish where in a race?
19. The Iditarod is a famous race held where each year?
20. What is raced in the Iditarod?
FLORA AND FAUNA
21. What is the largest species of penguin called?
22. 1997 saw more of which fruit grown in the world than any other?
23. What flowers are often referred to as “mums”?
24. What type of creature is a Rhodesian Ridgeback?
25. What part of the cinnamon tree becomes the spice?
LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
26. The township of Uranquinty is how many kilometres from Wagga?
27. How many schools are found on Ashmont’s Bardia Street?
28. Name them.
29. What is the nickname of the Farrer League premiers Marrar?
30. Who did that team defeat in the 2017 grand final last weekend?
CURRENT EVENTS
31. Name the London underground station that was rocked by an explosion last week in an alleged terror attack.
32. Three members of one family, including a boy aged 11, died near Naples last week after the boy fell into what and his parents attempted to save him?
33. Which rugby league identity found himself in the doghouse after revealing on radio that he had smuggled vodka into his son’s graduation Mass at the weekend?
34. Name the winners of the Pascoe Cup grand final on Sunday.
35. Which program won the Emmy for best drama series for 2017?
Fun facts
Ben Chifley’s post-war government oversaw the establishment of Australian citizenship, the Snowy Mountains Scheme and the founding of ASIO.
