- What kind of bread has a French name derived from the mediaeval word meaning broken up into small bits by pressure?
- Which Australian department store’s logo features a hounds tooth pattern?
- Which boy’s name doubles as a label for an arable field of growing rice?
- Which European capital city’s airport is known by the three letter code CDG?
- From which continent is the Black Death most commonly suspected to have originated?
- 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?
- Which beer brand often sees its drinkers ‘split the G’?
- Which sport can see its competitors suffer from a mental block called ‘the twisties’?
- Which Australian savoury snack was invented by a boilermaker in the 1950s who sought to improve on the ‘flimsiness’ of Chinese spring rolls?
- 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?
- If you saw an athlete competing under the abbreviation KSA, what country would they be representing?
- Which 1979s film tagline warned viewers that ’in space no one can hear you scream?
- Dihydrogen monoxide is an alternative name for which substance?
- By what name is Harry Cooper better known to Australian TV viewers?
- For which Formula One team does Australian Oscar Piastri drive for (2024)?
- Aotearoa is the indigenous name for which nation?
- At the 2006 APEC summit in Sydney, what brand of jacket were the leaders pictured wearing?
- Terry Gene Bollea is the birth name for which professional wrestler?
- Which is the first child to be eliminated from the tour in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
- 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.