1. Who wrote: “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” 2. Which football team has won 13 English Premier League titles? 3. What colour is halfway between yellow and green, and the name of a liqueur? 4. Which is the metonym: Canberra or federal government? 5. Mandawuy Yunupingu sang and wrote songs for which Australian rock band? 6. Who co-wrote and directed the 1968 cult film Night of the Living Dead? 7. Name the main ingredient in the dessert panna cotta. 8. Does the Belt of Venus appear just before sunrise, after sunset, or both? 9. Before retiring in 2016, Lauren Jackson played for which basketball team? 10. In Jervis Bay, NSW, what sea creatures were recorded flinging seashells at each other? 11. Which Underworld song was in the soundtrack to the 1996 film Trainspotting? 12. “China plate” is rhyming slang for what? 13. The brain’s gustatory cortex perceives what sensory information? 14. Which two countries share the longest international land border? 15. Dipsomania is an uncontrollable craving for … what? 16. What does Looney Tunes character Elmer Fudd mostly hunt? 17. In which Gabriel García Márquez novel is the scent of bitter almonds reminiscent of the fate of unrequited love? 18. Which Australian production is considered the world’s first dramatic feature-length film? 19. The Pillars of Hercules in Paul Theroux’s eponymous 1995 book lie at the entrance to which strait? 20. What festival commemorates Jewish liberation from slavery in Egypt? 21. In which state are Gulf St. Vincent and Spencer Gulf, Australia’s largest estuaries? 22. Who did George W. Bush defeat in the 2000 US Presidential election? 23. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is the head of which global organisation? 24. Whose autobiography is titled Apropos of Nothing? 25. The names of how many countries start with “New”? Answers 1 Samuel Beckett (in Worstward Ho!, 1983). 2 Manchester United. 3 Chartreuse. 4 Canberra. 5 Yothu Yindi. 6 George A. Romero. 7 Cream. 8 Both. 9 Canberra Capitals. 10. Gloomy octopuses (Octopus tetricus). 11 Born Slippy .NUXX. 12 Mate. 13 Taste. 14 Canada and the US (8893 kilometres). 15 Alcohol. 16 Wabbits (rabbits). 17 Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). 18 The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906). 19 Strait of Gibraltar. 20 Passover (in Hebrew, Pesach). 21 South Australia. 22 Albert Arnold “Al” Gore jnr. 23 World Health Organisation. 24 Woody Allen. 25 One (New Zealand).
