QUIZ QUICK

1 Robyn Butler plays Frances O’Brien in which ABC TV series?

2 Grande Fratello is the Italian title for what popular reality TV show?

3 How much of Australia is classified as desert: a) 10 per cent b) 15 per cent c) 20 per cent?

4 True or false: there is a chocolate bar named after US baseball player

Babe Ruth?

5 Is chili a fruit or

vegetable?

6 Who dies by drowning in Shakespeare’s Hamlet?

7 A mazanec is which country’s version of a hot cross bun?

8 Which author released The Jungle Book in 1894?

9 What is the title of singer-songwriter Paul Kelly’s 2010 memoir?

10 What do Mr Burns, Cosmo G. Spacely and Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth have in common?

ACROSS

1 Acidic (4)

3 Picking up from where you left off (10)

10 Subvert (9)

11 Fierce weather (5) 12 Coagulate (4)

13 Spreading to wide

area (9)

15 Ultimate (7)

16 Cleaning scoop (7) 18 Withstands (7)

20 Siblings (7)

22 Displace (bone) (9) 25 Cut (with axe) (4) 27 Lack of order (5)

28 Meddle (9)

29 Medium size naval

vessels (10)

30 Throne platform (4)

DOWN

0013 1 Bullet (4)

2 Moves in waves (9) 4 Villains (9)

5 Operators (5)

6 Own (7)

7 Idols (5)

8 Dexterity (10)

9 Squirm (6)

14 Propagated (10)

16 Rebel (9)

17 Unexplained

events (9)

19 Fund an event (7) 21 Locked and safe (6) 23 Suns (5)

24 Peace (5)

26 Stinging insects (4)