THE SHARK QUIZ

1. Something very boring is said to be like watching grass … what?

2. What country is also known as Aotearoa?

3. Which Australian TV personality is affectionately nicknamed KAK?

4. Crystal Palace is a soccer team based in which city?

5. Which actor who recently turned 96 played the Cockney jack-of-all trades, Bert, in the 1964 film Mary Poppins?

6. Smirnoff is a well-known brand of what liquor?

7. Cow corner is a slang term used in which sport?

8. Buderim and Caloundra are part of which Queensland region?

9. Who wrote the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray?

10. Which doctor and burns specialist who invented “spray-on skin” was Australian of the Year in 2005?

11. Which country gave the world the Whoopee Cushion, the Wonderbra, Trivial Pursuit and canola?

12. Living Doll is a signature song of which British singer?

13. In the lead-up to the 1988 US presidential election, George Bush famously said: “Read my lips, no new…” what: wars, taxes, or ideas?

14. Actor Josh O’Connor won an Emmy this year for playing which royal in the TV series The Crown?

15. The Indian festival called Holi celebrates the beginning of which meteorological season?

16. Since 2019, Julian Assange has been in prison in which country?

17. Who plays Cruella de Vil in the 2021 film Cruella?

18. What is the freezing point of water on the Fahrenheit temperature scale?

19. The word blog originated as a contraction of what two words? THE STUMPER

20. Place these 1960s events in chronological order, starting with the earliest: Australia introduces decimal currency; Charles Perkins leads the Freedom Ride; Harold Holt disappears; The Beatles tour Australia.