Quiz #23/2025

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1. In Australian university terms, what does HECS stand for?
2. What country’s capital city was designed by US architect Walter Burley Griffin?
3. Let Me Down Easy and The Heart Is A Muscle are hit songs for which Australian group?
4. What is the most common gas used to keep a modern blimp afloat?

5. Wi-Fi is a portmanteau of which two words?
6. The Tour Down Under and World Road Championship are contests in what?
7. In surnames, e.g. Fitzwilliam, FitzGerald, Fitzherbert & Fitzhenry, what does “Fitz-” mean?
8. What is the name of the golf league set up in 2022 by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, rival to the western-backed PGA Tour?
9. What 1939 film starred Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara?
10. The hula is traditional dance from where?
11. The song “I Could Be So Good For You” was from which British TV series?
12. Jesse Owens represented which country at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin?
13. The Southfork Ranch featured in which TV series?
14. Which Australian state has postcodes beginning with 4?
15. Kim, Lee and Park are the three most common surnames in which nation?
16. Which word has featured in #1 hit songs from Blondie, Bonnie Tyler and Celine Dion?
17. Apart from February 29th, what is Australia’s least popular birth date?
18. What does El Nino, the name for the seasonal weather event, mean in Spanish?
19. Food prepared under the dietary laws of Judaism is called what?
20. Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool are collectively known as which band?

Bonus question In the children’s television series Scooby Doo, what is Velma’s surname? Answer in Quiz #24.

Answers: 1.Higher Education Contribution Scheme 2. Australia’s 3.Gang of Youths 4.Helium 5.Wireless Fidelity 6.Cycling 7.Son of 8.LIV 9.Gone With the Wind 10.Hawaii 11.Minder 12.USA 13.Dallas 14.Queensland 15.South Korea 16.Heart (‘Heart of Glass’, ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’, and ‘My Heart Will Go On’) 17.December 25th 18.The boy/child 19.Kosher 20.Green Day
Bonus question answer (from Quiz #22): Peter Cook played Richard lll in the first series of ‘Blackadder’.

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