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1. Who played the role of Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter movie series?

2. The Clarence Strait separates northern Australia from which island?

3. Dylan Alcott won gold medals in which sport at the 2016 Rio Paralympic­s?

4. Which car manufactur­er made the F6 Typhoon?

5. In a standard game of Pictionary, what is the “O” category?

6. Which TV series stars Hamish Blake as a weatherman named Hamilton?

7. Dude, Where’s My Country? is a 2003 book attacking the corporate world and political scene of which country?

8. The piccolo belongs to which family of musical instrument­s?

9. True or false: When the Lion Feeds was the debut novel by Wilbur Smith?

10. What is the nickname of the Australian women’s rugby union team?

11. There are exactly 1440 minutes in what unit of time?

12. Who composed the pieces of music known as the Brandenbur­g concertos?

13. Which of the Grand Slam tennis singles titles did Arthur Ashe never win?

14. What does the letter “e” stand for in relation to an e-cigarette?

15. Who is generally known as the founder of WikiLeaks?

16. The Baltic Sea is a sea of which ocean?

17. Clint Eastwood won his second Best Director Oscar for which 2004 movie?

18. True or false: The symbol for plutonium is P?

19. The Wakhan Corridor separates Pakistan from which country starting with “T”?

20. In the Charlie and Lola children’s series, Soren Lorenson is the imaginary friend of which character?

21. Mixed martial artist Miesha Tate fought in which weight division in the UFC?

22. The Adelaide and Mary River Floodplain­s, identified as an Important Bird Area, is in which state or territory?

23. Riboflavin is also known as which one of the B vitamins?

24. In a standard game of poker, four of a kind lies between a straight flush and which other hand?

25. The Gulf of Aqaba is located at the northern tip of which sea?

26. In the early 1980s, who had a hit with the song Leader of the Band?

27. Michael Keaton, Edward Norton and Naomi Watts starred together in which 2014 movie?

28. True or false: The bottom stripe on the flag of India is blue?

29. Porto-Novo is the capital city of which country?

30. In Greek mythology, Artemis was the twin sister of which Greek god?

1. Rupert Grint

2. Melville Island

3. Wheelchair tennis

4. Ford

5. Object

6. The Wrong Girl

7. US 8. Woodwind

9. True

10. Wallaroos

11. One day

12. Johann Sebastian Bach

13. French Open

14. Electronic

15. Julian Assange

16. Atlantic Ocean

17. Million Dollar Baby

18. False (Pu)

19. Tajikistan

20. Lola

21. Bantamweig­ht

22. Northern Territory

23. B2

24. Full house

25. Red Sea

26. Dan Fogelberg

27. Birdman

28. False (green)

29. Benin

30. Apollo

Target Word

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