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1. Who plays Sherlock Holmes in<br />
Guy Ritchie’s new movie?<br />
2. Flying Jetstar, which Aussie city would<br />
you visit to go to the Salamanca Market?<br />
3. Spelunking is an alternative term for<br />
which adventure sport?<br />
4. Beefmaster, Moneymaker and Alicante<br />
are all types of which vegetable?<br />
5. Which Canadian singer’s new No.1<br />
album is called Crazy Love?<br />
6. Which author created the hardboiled<br />
detective Mike Hammer?<br />
7. Which engineering feat is associated<br />
with 19th-century Frenchman<br />
Ferdinand de Lesseps?<br />
8. Which deadly poison is sometimes<br />
described as smelling of bitter almonds?<br />
9. What is produced by the Swedish<br />
company Koenigsegg?<br />
10. What essential item of summer clothing<br />
is referred to as “jandals” in New Zealand?<br />
11. Which Australian sportsman last year<br />
released an autobiography called The<br />
Truth Hurts?<br />
12. Which lasagna-loving comic-strip<br />
character was created by Jim Davis?<br />
13. Australian Emma Moffatt is world<br />
champion in which sport?<br />
14. After our sun, what is the closest star<br />
system to Earth?<br />
15. What do the letters BASE stand for in<br />
the term BASE jumping?<br />
16. What iconic Aussie social event is called a<br />
“braai” in South Africa?<br />
17. Flying Jetstar, where would you be<br />
visiting if you travelled to Thailand’s<br />
largest island?<br />
18. Which classic Michael Caine fi lm depicts<br />
the Battle of Rorke’s Drift?<br />
19. Béchamel sauce comprises which<br />
three ingredients?<br />
20. In 2008–09, who won back-to-back<br />
MotoGP Riders’ World Championships?<br />
21. How were 1990s TV stars Clarissa<br />
Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson<br />
better known?<br />
22. On which day is Australia Day celebrated<br />
every year?<br />
23. Who is awarded the Daphne Akhurst<br />
Memorial Cup?<br />
24. By which name is the drug acetylsalicylic<br />
acid better known?<br />
25. Voss, Riders in the Chariot and<br />
The Eye of the Storm are novels by<br />
which acclaimed Australian author?<br />
26. Stevie, Casey, Fely, Tim and Lauren<br />
are the current members of which<br />
popular group?<br />
-question<br />
quiz.<br />
27. What is the name of the lead character<br />
played by actor David Duchovny in the<br />
US TV series Californication?<br />
28. Can Can, Just Me, Fairy Dust and<br />
Heiress are perfumes spruiked by<br />
which celebrity?<br />
29. What type of musical instruments<br />
are timpani?<br />
30. Famous fashion editor Anna Wintour<br />
reportedly provided the inspiration for a<br />
character in which famous novel and fi lm?<br />
31. Which popular TV show features a<br />
character called The Stig?<br />
32. What is the more common name for the<br />
United States Bullion Depository?<br />
33. Sugarloaf Mountain towers over which<br />
South American city?<br />
34. Flying Jetstar, which Aussie city would<br />
you be visiting if you were watching your<br />
team play at Subiaco Oval?<br />
35. Individually, the Four Horsemen of<br />
the Apocalypse are referred to as<br />
War, Famine, Death and which<br />
other name?<br />
36. What is the name of the famous debut<br />
novel of Audrey Niffenegger?<br />
37. Which comic opera by Georges Bizet is<br />
about a beautiful Spanish gypsy?<br />
38. Electric Ladyland and Axis: Bold as Love<br />
are albums by which legendary guitarist?<br />
39. Maori hei-tiki pendants are<br />
traditionally made of which material?<br />
40. The Vedas are the oldest sacred texts of<br />
which religion?<br />
BRAIN TEASERS<br />
TRIVIA QUIZ<br />
JANUARY <strong>2010</strong> 69
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