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Question 1

Under which tree is the buddha said to have attained enlightenment?

Answer 1

Bodhi tree

Question 2

Which is the weaker force: electromagnetic or gravitational?

Answer 2

gravitational

Question 3

In marine science, moderate tides are known as what?

Answer 3

neap

Question 4

What does a pascal measure ?

Answer 4

Pressure

Question 5

The Nullabor plaine stretches between which two states?

Answer 5

SA & WA

Question 6

If you have pernicious anaemia, what do you lack?

Answer 6

B12

Question 7

Name the G7 Nations.

Answer 7

Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US

Question 8

Which classic children’s film is based on a book by Ian Fleming?

Answer 8

Chitty chitty bang bang

Question 9

How many times did phar lap win the melbourne cup?

Answer 9

once

Question 10

Who defined Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”?

Answer 10

churchill

Question 11

which country is named after jesus christ?

Answer 11

El Salvador

Question 12

The name of which spice comes from the latin for ‘nail” for their shape?

Answer 12

Cloves (lt. clovus)

Question 13

gargamel is the main antagonist of which belgian comic franchise?

Answer 13

The Smurfs

Question 14

What is the duduk?

Answer 14

An Armenian wind instrument

Question 15

What are the world’s 3 most populous democracies?

Answer 15

India, US, Indonesia

Question 16

Chinstraps, macaronis ans gentoos ate species of which bird?

Answer 16

Penguin

Question 17

What is the scientific study of the body’s resistence to infectious diseases?

Answer 17

Immunology

Question 18

What were the Pentagon papers?

Answer 18

SEcret US gov papers about the US political and military involvement in Vietnam.

Question 19

What are the 3 main peninsulas in SA?

Answer 19

Eyre, Yorke, Fleurieu.

Question 20

So many Australian are …..

Answer 20

No longer prepared to make personal sacrifices in the interests of the common good.

Question 21

What does the international CITES treaty regulate or ban trade in?

Answer 21

Endangered species

Question 22

What was the first carbon neutral country?

Answer 22

Bhutan

Question 23

What is the highest mountain in North America?

Answer 23

Denali or Mt McKinley

Question 24

Who was Russia’s first freely elected leader?

Answer 24

Boris yelstsin

Question 25

Which river forms the international border between Myanmar and Laos?

Answer 25

Mekong

Question 26

The refugee Olympic team debuted at which Olympic Games?

Answer 26

Rio 2016

Question 27

The islands of new Britain, new Ireland and manus are part of which country?

Answer 27

PNG

Question 28

Which sea has the lowest elevation on earth?

Answer 28

The Dead Sea

Question 29

Phonagnosia is the inability to distinguish people by their what?

Answer 29

Voice

Question 30

Which major public square in Berlin is named after a Russian tsar?

Answer 30

Alexanderplatz

Question 31

What is the name of a person who makes guitars?

Answer 31

Luthier

Question 32

Where is the annual bong bong race day held?

Answer 32

Bowral

Question 33

Alexa, cortina and bixby are names of what?

Answer 33

Digital assistants

Question 34

The first Hard Rock Cafe opened in which city in 1971?

Answer 34

London

Question 35

After what was the Jurassic period named?

Answer 35

The Jura mountains, where remains from the period where first found.

Question 36

Which Australian comic strip, created in 1921, is one of the longest running?

Answer 36

Ginger mega

Question 37

What is the first letter of the Russian alphabet?

Answer 37

A

Question 38

Who is the head of the reserve bank?

Answer 38

Philip Lowe

Question 39

In Italian cuisine, what does al forno mean.

Answer 39

Baked in the oven

Question 40

The Stuart highway’s southern terminus is in which city.

Answer 40

Port Augusta

Question 41

What is the collective noun for a group of rhinoceroses?

Answer 41

Crash

Question 42

Which sea bird is also known as a gooney?

Answer 42

Albatross

Question 43

The disease parotitis is better known as what?

Answer 43

The mumps

Question 44

Which Pacific Ocean nation was formerly known as the New Hebrides?

Answer 44

Vanuatu

Question 45

In Greek mythology, which god was condemned to hold up the heavens for eternity.

Answer 45

Atlas

Question 46

The name of which Australian Holden id aboriginal for “high plains “?

Answer 46

Monaro

Question 47

Melville and Bathurst islands are collectively known as what?

Answer 47

The Tiwi islands

Question 48

Which fictional character lend his name to a pact where morals are traded for material gain?

Answer 48

Faust (dr Faustus)