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ARR NEWS QUIZ-18.11.24

  1. What type of ice cream has stripes of vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate?
  2. What salty sea does the River Jordan flow into?
  3. If B is Bravo, and F is Foxtrot, what is C?
  4. Who sang “Love Me Tender”?
  5. Regarding the offence, what does DUI stand for?
  6. Which is the earliest year level at which Australian students are exposed to NAPLAN testing?
  7. Of Australia’s twenty most common surnames. Which is the only one to appear in 2023’s list of 20 most common baby names?
  8. In 2009 Australian kids were averaging sixty nine minutes of broadcast TV viewing per day-what is the updated average in 2024?
  9. Which of the 5 Nobel Prizes has an Australian never received?
  10. Which three digit number would you call to reach emergency services in the UK?
  11. Which was the most common criminal offence recorded by Australian police in the 2022-23 financial year-Illicit drug offences, public order offences or acts intended to cause injury?
  12. What movie featured the song “Under the Sea”?
  13. Who was shot at Ford’s Theatre?
  14. What country do Lego come from?
  15. What periodic table element is represented by the letter K?
  16. What disease is also known as “consumption”?
  17. What is the most commonly-spoken language that uses the Cyrillic alphabet?
  18. For which watch brand was Chris Hemsworth an ambassador for most of the 2010s?
  19. As of August 2024, who is the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory?
  20. What is the oldest age reached by an Australian Prime Minister?

 

BONUS QUESTION: In which year did the then British monarch Queen Elizabeth ll first pay Income Tax? Answer in the next Quiz.

 

ANSWERS: 1.Neapolitan 2.Dead Sea 3.Charlie 4.Elvis Presley 5.Driving under the influence 6.Year 3 7.Thomas 8.Twenty minutes (seventeen minutes) 9.Peace Prize 10.999 11.Acts intended to cause injury 12.The Little Mermaid 13.Abraham Lincoln 14.Denmark 15.Pottasium 16.Tuberulosis 17.Russian 18.TAG Heuer 19.Lia Finocchiaro 20.Gough Whitlam who lived to 98

 

BONUS QUESTION ANSWER ( from the last Quiz): Disney’s Magic Kingdom, near Orlando Florida, opened in 1971.