1. Which Australian conglomerate owns Bunnings, K Mart and Officeworks?
2. Which Australian state has the most library loans per capita?
3. Who is the only Australian Prime Minister to have been born during World War ll?
4. What city is the seat of the Netherlands’ government?
5. What is the smallest country in the world?
6. What is the most populous city in South Africa?
7. What is the oldest university in England?
8. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
9. If you roll doubles three times consecutively and end up in jail, what are you doing?
10. With regard to a kind of shopping centre what does DFO stand for?
11. In 2023 which bird’s call won the ABC’s contest for Australia’s favourite animal sound?
12. What is the flavour of an original Splice?
13. What is the job title of somebody who makes coffee and espresso drinks?
14. Who starred in “Cast Away” and “Big”?
15. What curved instrument is used to ease one’s heel into a shoe?
16. What was Franklin Roosevelt’s middle name?
17. Which is closer to Melbourne as the crow flies-Auckland or Darwin?
18. Which Australian state was the first to elect a female Premier?
19. Who composed the “1812 Overture”?
20. What trilogy’s second movie starred Robert De Niro and Al Pacino?

BONUS QUESTION: In which year did Queen Elizabeth ll first visit Australia as a reigning monarch? Answer in the next Quiz

ANSWERS: 1.Wesfarmers 2.South Australia (9.0 per capita, versus a national average of 5.6) 3.Paul Keating 4.The Hague 5.Vatican City 6.Johannesburg 7.Oxford 8.John Wilkes Booth 9.Playing Monopoly 10.Direct factory outlet 11.Magpie 12.Pine lime 13.Barista 14.Tom Hanks 15.Shoe horn 16.Delano 17.Auckland (2632 km vs. 3151 km) 18. Queensland (Anna Bligh) 19.Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 20.The Godfather

BONUS QUESTION ANSWER ( from last week’s Quiz): Author Charles Ludwidge Dodgson is better known by the name Lewis Carroll.