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ARR NEWS QUIZ-7.10.24

  1. What kind of bread has a French name derived from the mediaeval word meaning broken up into small bits by pressure?
  2. Which Australian department store’s logo features a hounds tooth pattern?
  3. Which boy’s name doubles as a label for an arable field of growing rice?
  4. Which European capital city’s airport is known by the three letter code CDG?
  5. From which continent is the Black Death most commonly suspected to have originated?
  6. Which Australian state requires learner drivers to undertake the least amount of supervised driving hours to be eligible to progress to a more advanced license?
  7. Which beer brand often sees its drinkers ‘split the G’?
  8. Which sport can see its competitors suffer from a mental block called ‘the twisties’?
  9. Which Australian savoury snack was invented by a boilermaker in the 1950s who sought to improve on the ‘flimsiness’ of Chinese spring rolls?
  10. Which city is often referred to as the most isolated in the world-mainly because the next city with over a million people is over two thousand kilometres away?
  11. If you saw an athlete competing under the abbreviation KSA, what country would they be representing?
  12. Which 1979s film tagline warned viewers that ’in space no one can hear you scream?
  13. Dihydrogen monoxide is an alternative name for which substance?
  14. By what name is Harry Cooper better known to Australian TV viewers?
  15. For which Formula One team does Australian Oscar Piastri drive for (2024)?
  16. Aotearoa is the indigenous name for which nation?
  17. At the 2006 APEC summit in Sydney, what brand of jacket were the leaders pictured wearing?
  18. Terry Gene Bollea is the birth name for which professional wrestler?
  19. Which is the first child to be eliminated from the tour in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
  20. The minimum age for a US President is 35, what is the minimum age for an Australian Prime Minister?

 

BONUS QUESTION: English monarch King John, who died in 1216, was the youngest son of which king? Answer in the next Quiz.

 

ANSWERS: 1.Brioche 2.David Jones 3.Paddy 4.Paris’s (Charles de Gaulle) 5.Asia 6.Western Australia 7.Guinness 8.Gymnastics 9.Chiko Roll 10.Perth 11.Saudi Arabia ( Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) 12.Alien 13.Water 14.Dr. Harry (Harry’s Practice) 15.McLaren 16.New Zealand 17.Driza-Bone 18.Hulk Hogan 19.Augustus Gloop 20. 18 (the minimum age for a Member of the House of Representatives – which extends to the office of Prime Minister)

           

BONUS QUESTION ANSWER ( from last week’s Quiz): The month that Mexico celebrates its independence from Spain is September.