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  1. What does `The Cherry Orchard' have in common with old editions of `Startrek'? Answer
  2. In Australia, how is the date of Mothers' Day calculated? Answer
  3. Which President of the USSR encouraged the policy of Glassnost? Answer
  4. What was built by inmates taken from Changi Prison Camp? Answer
  5. What is the world's largest desert? Answer
  6. Nino Culotto was his pen-name. What was his REAL name? Answer
  7. What is the last letter of the Greek alphabet? Answer
  8. Who wrote `The Entertainer', music made famous by the film,`The Sting'? Answer
  9. In Greek legend, what was eaten on the island of Jerba? Answer
  10. What was the name of Ulysses' son, who grew to manhood in his absence? Answer
  11. Which Knight caused the death of the Lady of Shallott? Answer
  12. What monument occupies centre stage in Trafalgar Square? Answer
  13. Which book catapulted Germaine Greer to fame? Answer
  14. What was the classical standard language of ancient India? Answer
  15. Who directed and starred in films such as `The little Tramp'? Answer
  16. Name the three types of classical architectural column. Answer
  17. Who was Doctor Zhivago's great love? Answer
  18. Name the commoner who ruled England in 1658-59. Answer
  19. Which ghost ship is the theme of an 1841 opera by Richard Wagner? Answer
  20. What career did the Duke of Wellington pursue after the Battle of Waterloo? Answer
  21. Which popular hymn was composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan of Opera Fame? Answer
  22. What is the literal meaning of `pince-nez'. glasses? Answer
  23. Beneath which Paris monument is the tomb of France's unknown soldier? Answer
  24. What type of puppets are those whose movements are controlled by strings? Answer
  25. Which drug is best known for its use in preventing malaria? Answer
  26. Identify the 15th century British war fought by the Houses of Lancaster and York. Answer
  27. Which sea is so named because it is too salty to maintain life? Answer
  28. What is the most indispensable instrument in astronomy? Answer
  29. Which literary doctor owns a parrot called `Polynesia'? Answer
  30. Name the Australian singer whose first hit, in the 1960s, was 'I Remember You'. Answer
  31. What is Sydney's equivalent to San Francisco's `Bay To Breakers' footrace'? Answer
  32. Which independent island is Australia's nearest neighbour to the west? Answer
  33. At the end of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet', which of the principals are dead? Answer
  34. Name two fictional or historical characters who fought with quarterstaffs on a log bridge ? Answer
  35. What is the name of Greg Norman's business? Answer
  36. Name a state of U.S.A. beginning with `B'. Answer
  37. Whom did Yoko Ono marry only to lose to an assassin? Answer
  38. Wo dubbed Australia `The Lucky Country' in one of his novels? Answer
  39. Which biblical event supports the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number? Answer
  40. How much was 240 pence in predecimal currency? Answer
  41. Which comic- strip drake is a multi-billionaire? Answer
  42. What was the first event decided at the 1896 Olympics? Answer
  43. Which is the only continent occupied by one nation? Answer
  44. What inspired the convex golden disc as the Order of Australia ? Answer
  45. Which 1980 song hit was writen by Joe Dolce, an Italian migrant? Answer
  46. What is God called by the Islamic or Muslim faith? Answer
  47. Which radiation belt around the earth was named after an American physicist? Answer
  48. What is significant about a score of 4137 points in billiards? Answer
  49. Who was the famous Nez Perce Indian chief? Answer
  50. Which Slim Dusty 'hotel' song is Australia's only gold 78 record? Answer
  51. After Carruthers, Rose and Famechon, who was Australia's fourth world boxing champion? Answer
  52. What is an ocarina whose size and shape resembles a goose egg? Answer
  53. In which American city was the world's first skyscraper built in 1885? Answer
  54. What is the Christian name of Webster, who published a dictionary still used today ? Answer
  55. Outside of the Presidency, what is the highest American political office? Answer
  56. Name the only boxer to knock out Mohammed Ali. Answer
  57. Which Australian state is host to the town of Gundagai? Answer
  58. On what date to Americans celebrate their Independence Day? Answer
  59. Who starred in the film version of To Kill A Mockingbird? Answer
  60. Which modern language gives us the term finito ? Answer
  61. Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? Answer
  62. Which Australian city will host the 2001 Goodwill Games? Answer
  63. The prefix gastro refers to which bodily organ? Answer
  64. If you are celebrating your Diamond Anniversary, how many years have you been married ? Answer
  65. Boxers often suffer from a condition in which their ears are misshapen..what is this called? Answer
  66. Who wrote the famous poem Daffodils? Answer
  67. In what decade of this century was it decided US Presidents would be restricted to two terms? Answer
  68. What was the given name of Stalin's daughter who defected to the US in 1967? Answer
  69. Name the South African surgeon who carried out the first heart transplant operation. Answer
  70. The revolutionary newspaper, Pravda was first published in 1912...but WHERE? Answer
  71. What the the first ship to reach Titanic after the disaster? Answer
  72. Where in the US did the dance , the Charleston originate? Answer
  73. Which American author wrote the novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? Answer
  74. Who piloted the US aircraft shot down byt he USSR in 1960 ? Answer
  75. Where were the 1960 Summer Olympics held? Answer
  76. In what year was the Rainbow Warrior sunk in New Zealand waters? Answer
  77. Who became the first Overlord Of England and Wales? Answer
  78. Which animal is likely to suffer from the disease, heaves ? Answer
  79. Who wrote The Happy Prince? Answer
  80. For what sport is a harrier bred? Answer
  81. Where in Australia is Palm Valley ? Answer
  82. What breed of farm animal is a Polwarth? Answer
  83. Who named Manly Cove , situated in Sydney Harbour? Answer
  84. Name the main ore of iron. Answer
  85. What is the study of heredity called? Answer
  86. Rose Hill was the original name of Australia's second settlement ...what is it called now? Answer
  87. What term is used to describe fertile land being 'rested' for a season? Answer
  88. Who is the patron saint of children ? Answer
  89. Who did Amin overthrow in 1971? Answer
  90. What ancient unit of measurement is suppposedly the distance from the elbow to the tip of the index finger? Answer
  91. Which was the second James Bond novel to be made into a movie? Answer
  92. Can you name the only two countries to have declared independence from Britain? Answer
  93. What is the official language of Egypt? Answer
  94. On which continent is Vincon Massif the highest peak? Answer
  95. Do polar bears eat penguins? Answer
  96. In which country would you find Tabasco? Answer
  97. What is the more common name for the tympanic membrane ? Answer
  98. Name the street that is home to British journalism. Answer
  99. What was H.G. Wells' first novel? Answer
  100. Which Australian city was host to the nations's first steam train.and its first electric train? Answer
  101. What is the best-known university in Paris? Answer
  102. What is the birthstone for September? Answer
  103. Where did John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvery Oswald and Jack Ruby all die? Answer
  104. What is the last book of the Bible? Answer
  105. Which movie's last line is " After all, tomorrow is another day"? Answer
  106. In Disney comics, who are Daisy Duck's three nieces? Answer
  107. At which Melbourne hotel did the Beatles stay in 1964 ? Answer
  108. Who was the first New Australian to become, in 1961, Miss Australia? Answer
  109. Which edifice stands on the banks of the River Jumna, at Agra? Answer
  110. What does one call ornamental work in silver or gold thread? Answer
  111. Which Norse god had, as handmaidens, the Valkyrie? Answer
  112. Which British Battleship was sunk, in 1941, by The Bismark? Answer
  113. What is the alternative name for a beekeeper? Answer
  114. Which 1975 Dickens drama was planned as a musical but screened without any songs ? Answer
  115. Which British novel was the subject of "Sailor"? Answer
  116. How many books comprise the Old and the New Testaments? Answer
  117. At what angle above the horizon must the sun be to create a rainbow? Answer
  118. Which song is based on California's 1849 gold rush? Answer
  119. What is the only crime for which church sanctuary is not available? Answer
  120. What was the full name of Brutus, one of Caesar's murderers? Answer
  121. What was the American codename for the development of the atom bomb? Answer
  122. Which western law enfromcement agency's motto was , "One riot-One Ranger"? Answer
  123. What is the Hebrew name of Calvary, where Christ was crucified ? Answer
  124. Which number on a roulette wheel is coloured green? Answer
  125. How many cannons are involved in a Royal Salute? Answer
  126. What type of Moscow institution is GUM? Answer
  127. Which island is 50 times larger tha its mother country, Denmark? Answer
  128. Who was the first white man to climb Mt Kosciusko? Answer
  129. Name Australia's first "Girlie" magazine, launched in 1936. Answer
  130. What name is given to the Pope's pontificial ring? Answer
  131. What ingredient did Cap O' Rushes order omitted from the wedding meats? Answer
  132. Who are the traditional inhabitants of Dovrafell? Answer
  133. What was the name of Childe Rowland's sister, whom he rescued ? Answer
  134. Which witch travelled in a mortar which she drove along with a pestle? Answer
  135. Who caught Tommy Grimes? Answer
  136. What was it that Princess Margaret was changed into by her wicked stepmother, the Witch-Queen of Bamborough Castle? Answer
  137. Who fought the Queen of the Fairies for Tamlane, her love..and won? Answer
  138. Which fiend terrorized the Hall of Hrothgar? Answer
  139. And who freed Hrothgar's Hall of this menace? Answer
  140. What was kept in Iduna's magic casket? Answer
  141. What was the name of the first patented contraceptive pill ? Answer
  142. What name is given, collectively, to the first five books of the Old Testament? Answer
  143. In what year did Japan bomb Pearl Harbour? Answer
  144. Ulan Bator is the capital of which nation? Answer
  145. What unit of heat is required to raise 1 gm of water by one degree Celsius? Answer
  146. Which airline owned the jet that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988? Answer
  147. What number did Michael Jordan make famous during his career with the Chicago Bulls? Answer
  148. Which floor covering is constructed by covering hessian or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork and rosin? Answer
  149. In which American state would you find the city of Phoenix? Answer
  150. How many sides does a RHOMBUS have? Answer
  151. Which American state has its capital Harrisburg? Answer
  152. Which six letter word describes the number of members of a body required to be present to conduct business legally ? Answer
  153. Which company that developed the pentium processor for computers? Answer
  154. What name was given to the rockets used to launch the Apollo space missions? Answer
  155. Until the end of the 20th Century, what was the most popular name adopted by the popes? Answer
  156. In which year did Pope Benedict XV declare Joan of Arc a saint? Answer
  157. The mummies of Egyptian Pharaohs were often buried in what type of transport, believed to assist them to travel to the next world? Answer
  158. How many films did Charles Chaplin make during his 53-year carer, from 1914 to 1967? Answer
  159. Which band had a hit with the song ,California Dreamin'? Answer
  160. What name is given to the star that appears on the flag of Israel? Answer
  161. Which amusement park opened in Anaheim, California, on July 18th., 1955 ? Answer
  162. Name the wife of the Phillipines dictator, Ferdinand Marcos. Answer
  163. K is the chemical symbol for what? Answer
  164. On what date is Australia Day celebrated? Answer
  165. Who wrote the play, "The Mousetrap"? Answer
  166. How old was Boris Becker when he won his first Wimbledon Singles title? Answer
  167. How many Spice Girls were there in 1997? Answer
  168. Who played the title role in the film "Gandhi"? Answer
  169. In the nursery rhyme, what do we ask Mary, mary, Quite contrary? Answer
  170. In what country would you find the Grand Prix circuit known as Silverstone? Answer
  171. Which American President was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz ? Answer
  172. Complete the proverb No kitchen is big enough to hold... Answer
  173. Who developed Meccano? Answer
  174. To which people did Delilah pass soon the secret of Samson's strength? Answer
  175. Who wrote the shortest of the gospels? Answer
  176. Complete this proverb: The end justifies ......... Answer
  177. Who said: "A crank is a man with a new idea--until it catches on"? Answer
  178. Who wrote the song, Imagine? Answer
  179. Name the first woman in space. Answer
  180. Who was convicted of shooting and killing John F Kennedy? Answer
  181. In which country did the Volkswagon originate? Answer
  182. "The Sound Of Music" is set in which European country? Answer
  183. Which planet has the longest year? Answer
  184. In Earth terms , how long is that year? Answer
  185. What is the highest mountain in New Zealand? Answer
  186. What is the 12th letter of the English alphabet? Answer
  187. Who teamed up with Neil Diamond to perfom the hit song, "You Don't Send Me Flowers"? Answer
  188. 1974 saw Portugal involved in a revolution which became known by which floral name? Answer
  189. What term is used to describe the wool cut from around a sheep's eyes? Answer
  190. What type of creature is a beagle? Answer
  191. In which Asian nation would you find the state of Punjab? Answer
  192. What is the wellknown French word for "pen"? Answer
  193. Ra is the chemical symbol for which element? Answer
  194. What five-letter word, beginning with q, is used to describe a lock or curl of hair on the forehead? Answer
  195. How many metres make a kilometre? Answer
  196. Who was the great Spanish Painter whose first name was Pablo? Answer
  197. Who founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain? Answer
  198. Which 1970s band had a hit with "Mama Mia"? Answer
  199. In which year did Fred Astair die? Answer
  200. Which river did Johann Strauss describe as "blue"? Answer
  201. For what crime is Vincent Perrugia best remembered? Answer
  202. Which Florentine woman was mother to 3 kings of France, and wife to another? Answer
  203. Who was the 3rd man on the moon? Answer
  204. Who designed Queen Elizabeth II's wedding dress? Answer
  205. What was the name of Homer Simpson's Bowling team? Answer
  206. Which 1970's hit movie was based on a poem by James Dickey? Answer
  207. Which famous musician & singer was born McKinley Morganfield? Answer
  208. Who was the last person to be executed in the Tower of London? Answer
  209. In what film would you have seen a sword fight on the Cliffs of Insanity? Answer
  210. What is the world's largest bird of prey? Answer
  211. Sir Mark Oliphant was once Premier of which Australian State? Answer
  212. Near which Israeli city would you find the Mount Of Olives? Answer
  213. What colour are the towers of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge? Answer
  214. What is the sixth letter of hte English alphabet? Answer
  215. How many years of marraige are celebrated by a Golden Wedding Anniversary? Answer
  216. How many dwarves lived in the house discovered by Snow White? Answer
  217. By what short name were the Secret State Police of Nazi Germany known? Answer
  218. Musican Bo Didley is famous for playing which instrument? Answer
  219. Which acress began life as Doris Kapellhoff? Answer
  220. What name is given to the punctuation mark with a dot directly above a comma? Answer
  221. What country produces Rioja wines? Answer
  222. Who was the favourite daughter of Shakespeare's King Lear? Answer
  223. Which Australkian city includes the suburbs of Cottesloe and Subiaco? Answer
  224. Who discovered Oxygen in 1774? Answer
  225. Name the author of A Town Like Alice. Answer
  226. How many Earth years does it take Pluto to orbit the sun? Answer
  227. What name is given to the central part of a fleshy fruit, containing the seeds? Answer
  228. What letter appears to the right of Y on a keyboard? Answer
  229. What is it that makes soda water fizz? Answer
  230. What disease is the Sabin Vaccine used to prevent? Answer
  231. Name the actor grandfathr of Drew Barrymore. Answer
  232. Who is the female host of the television show, Better Homes and Gardens? Answer
  233. Which comedian once said, "A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand"? Answer
  234. Complete this proverb: A growing youth has a ......? Answer
  235. What are the three given names of author JRR Tolkein? Answer
  236. Who portrayed Kevin Arnold in the television series, The Wonder Years? Answer
  237. With whom did Barbra Streisand team to release the hit song, "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"? Answer
  238. Complete this proverb: Facts are .............. Answer
  239. Who portrayed Melanie Wilks in the film, Gone With The Wind? Answer
  240. Name the Australian artist who painted "The Rabbiters". Answer

THE ANSWERS

  1. Mr Checkhov!
  2. It's always the second Sunday in May.
  3. Mr Gorbachov
  4. The Burma Railway.
  5. The Sahara
  6. John O'Grady
  7. Omega
  8. Scott Joplin
  9. Lotuses.
  10. Telemachus
  11. Sir Lancelot
  12. Nelson's Colums
  13. The Female Eunuch
  14. Sanskrit
  15. Charlie Chaplin
  16. Doric, Ionic and Coninthian
  17. Lara
  18. Richard Cromwell
  19. The Flying Dutchman
  20. Political: he was British PM 1828-30
  21. 'Onward Christian Soldiers'
  22. 'Pinch-nose'
  23. Arc De Triomphe
  24. Marionettes
  25. Quinine
  26. War Of The Roses
  27. Dead Sea
  28. Telescope
  29. Dr Doolittle
  30. Frank Ifield
  31. City To Surf race
  32. Mauritius
  33. Both Romeo and Juliet
  34. Robin Hood and Little John
  35. Great White Shark Enterprises
  36. There is none!
  37. John Lennon
  38. Donald Horne
  39. Thirteen people at the Last Supper
  40. One pound
  41. Scrooge McDuck
  42. Triple jump
  43. Australia
  44. Wattle blossom
  45. Shaddap You Face
  46. Allah
  47. (James) Van Allen Belts
  48. It is Walter Lindrum's world-record break
  49. Chief Joseph
  50. The Pub With No Beer
  51. Rocky Mattioil,WBC Junior Middleweight
  52. Wind musical instrument
  53. Chicago
  54. Noah
  55. President of the United States Senate
  56. Larry Holmes in 1980
  57. New South Wales
  58. July 4th
  59. Gregory Peck
  60. Italian
  61. Michelangelo
  62. Brisbane
  63. The stomach
  64. Sixty
  65. Cauliflower Ear
  66. William Wordsworth
  67. The 6th., 1951
  68. Svetlana
  69. Dr Christian Barnard
  70. Russia
  71. The Carparthia
  72. Charleston, South Carolina
  73. Anita Loos
  74. Francis Gary Powers
  75. Rome
  76. 1985
  77. Egbert of Wessex
  78. A horse
  79. Oscar Wilde
  80. It is a hunting dog
  81. The Northern Territory
  82. A sheep
  83. Governor Arthur Philip
  84. Hematite
  85. Genetics
  86. Parramatta
  87. Fallow
  88. St Nicholas
  89. Milton Obote
  90. The cubit
  91. From Russia With Love
  92. The USA and Rhodesia
  93. Arabic
  94. Antarctica
  95. No, Polar bears live in the Arctic, while Penguins inhabit the Antarctic and other southern areas
  96. Mexico
  97. The eardrum
  98. Fleet Street
  99. The Time Machine
  100. Melbourne
  101. The Sorbonne
  102. Sapphire
  103. Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas, USA.
  104. Revelation
  105. GoneWith The Wind
  106. April, May and June
  107. The Southern Cross
  108. Tania Verstak
  109. The Taj Mahal
  110. Filigree
  111. Odin
  112. HMS Hood
  113. Apiarist
  114. Great Expectations
  115. HMS Ark Royal
  116. 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New
  117. 40 degrees
  118. Clementine
  119. sacrilege
  120. Marcus Junius Brutus
  121. Manhatton Project
  122. Texas Rangers
  123. Golgotha
  124. Zero
  125. Twenty-one
  126. The largest department-store
  127. Greenland
  128. Paul Strzlecki
  129. Men
  130. The Fisherman's Ring
  131. Salt
  132. The trolls of Denmark
  133. Burd Ellen
  134. Russia's Baba Yaga
  135. Mr Miacca
  136. The Laidly Worm
  137. Fair Janet
  138. Grendel
  139. Beowulf
  140. The Apples Of Youth which kept the Aesir young
  141. Enovid
  142. The Pentaleuch
  143. 1941
  144. Mongolia
  145. One calorie
  146. Pan Am
  147. 23
  148. Linoleum
  149. Arizona
  150. Four
  151. Pennsylvania
  152. Quorum
  153. Intel
  154. Saturn
  155. John,(6)
  156. 1920.
  157. Boats
  158. 89
  159. The Mamas and The Papas
  160. The Star Of David
  161. Disneyland
  162. Imelda
  163. Potassium
  164. January 26th
  165. Agatha Christie
  166. 17
  167. Five
  168. Ben Kingsley
  169. How Does Your Garden Grow?
  170. England
  171. William Mckinley
  172. ...Two Women
  173. Frank Hornby
  174. The Philistines
  175. Mark
  176. ...The means
  177. Mark Twain
  178. John Lennon
  179. Valentina Tereshkova
  180. Lee Harvey Oswald
  181. Germany
  182. Austria
  183. Pluto
  184. 247 years, 255 days
  185. Mt Cook
  186. L
  187. Barbara Streisand
  188. Carnation Revolution
  189. Eyeclip
  190. Dog
  191. India
  192. Plume
  193. Radium
  194. Quiff
  195. 1000
  196. Picasso
  197. Colonel Harlan Sanders
  198. ABBA
  199. 1987
  200. The Danube.
  201. He Stole The Mona Lisa
  202. Catherine De Medici
  203. Charles Conrad
  204. Norman Hartnell
  205. Pin Pals
  206. Deliverance
  207. Muddy Waters
  208. Josef Jakobs
  209. The Princess Bride
  210. Californian Condor.
  211. South Australia
  212. Jerusalem
  213. Red
  214. F
  215. 50
  216. 7
  217. Gestapo
  218. Guitar
  219. Doris Day
  220. Semi-colon.
  221. Spain
  222. Cordelia
  223. Perth
  224. Joseph Priestly
  225. Nevil Shute
  226. 248
  227. The core
  228. U
  229. Carbon Dioxide
  230. Polio
  231. John Barrymore
  232. Noni Hazlehurst
  233. Billy Connolly
  234. Wolf in his belly
  235. John Ronald Reuel
  236. Fred Savage
  237. Neil Diamond
  238. Stubborn things
  239. Olivia De Havilland
  240. Sir Russell Drysdale























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