Five-minute quiz

1. The 1990s TV soap opera Melrose Place was a spinoff from what series?

2. Where did the over-sized wine bottles known as a jeroboam, a methuselah and a nebuchadnezzar get their names?

3. Which sporting celebrity is trialling for Australian football team the Central Coast Mariners?

4. In what city would you see the Winter Palace?

5. What religious institution owns the Sanitarium cereal company? 6. What Pulitzer Prize-winning American novel of 1939 took its title from a phrase in the patriotic song Battle Hymn of the Republic?

7. What ornate international sporting trophy was first contested in 1851?

8. The Oscar-winning 2008 movie The Hurt Locker is set in what country?

9. What profession is denoted by the letters BDS?

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