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ARRN QUIZ 9-2025

  1. What is Australia’s most successful Olympic sport?
  2. What was the first single released from Hanson’s debut studio album in April 1997?
  3. What do humpback whales use to attract prey?
  4. In what year did ANZAC troops land at Anzac Cove?
  5. MLB, NBA, NFL or NHL-which is the only major North American sporting league to play games in August?
  6. Which body part shares its name with a point of calm weather in the midst of a tropical storm?
  7. What did the Yamaha Corporation initially release-motor vehicles or musical instruments?
  8. Which actor released the 2023 memoir ‘Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing?  
  9. What Australian state capital is known as ‘the city of churches’?
  10. What record did jockey Peter St Albans set in 1876 when he won the Melbourne Cup on Briseis?
  11. Which movie, set in part during WWll won the 1997 Oscar for Best Picture?
  12. According to archaeological evidence what was the earliest animal to be domesticated?
  13. What nickname was given to a group of Australians who were arrested for smuggling heroin out of Indonesia in April 2005?
  14. Which country recognises Waitangi Day as its national day?
  15. Which bird is the national emblem of Germany?
  16. Bolivian marching powder is a euphemism for which street drug?
  17. Which US President declined to run for a second full term in office during the Vietnam War?
  18. What is the largest national park in Australia?
  19. Which famous tennis player helped organise the Virginia Slims Tour?
  20. If a judge is ‘Your honour’, an ambassador is ‘your excellency-How should you address a princess?

 

BONUS QUESTION: Independence Day in Estonia is celebrated during which month of the year. Answer in next week’s Quiz.

 

ANSWERS: 1.Swimming 2.MMMBop 3.Bubbles 4.1915 5.MLB-Major League Baseball 6.Eye 7.Musical instruments 8.Matthew Perry 9.Adelaide 10. Youngest jockey in the history of the race 11.The English Patient 12.Dogs 13.Bali Nine 14.New Zealand 15.Eagle 16.Cocaine 17.Lyndon B Johnson 18.Munga-Thirri-Simpson Desert National Park 19.Billie-Jean King 20.Your royal highness

 

BONUS QUESTION ANSWER (from last week’s Quiz): The name of the police car in the children’s television series Roary the Racing Car is Nick.