Just an easy little one to boost your confidence…
1. What flower is the English rugby team emblem?
2. What was the first event to be competed in the first modern Olympic Games?
3. What indicates the legal limit to which a ship may be loaded?
4. A baby’s first teeth are called what?
5. What is the title of ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s autobiography, published in October 2010?
6. What is the name of the shallow sea between West Papua and the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia?
7. Which song starts with the line ‘Get your motor running’?
8. Which character is the mascot for the Pokémon franchise?
9. Fidel Castro survived more than 200 assassination attempts-true or false?
10. According to the song Chattanooga Choo-Choo leaves at when?
11. What five letter word can go before ‘colour’, ‘shed’ and ‘board’ to make three other words?
12. In what year was the first Godfather film released?
13. If you’re cheering the Kookaburras, what sport are you watching?
14. What animal gives birth upside down then catches the baby in its wings?
15. Second Solution Prisoner of Society is a song by which Australian band?
16. Who was on the English throne at the time of the “Gunpowder Plot” to blow up the House of Lords?
17. A hunter claimed to have seen what bird in 1688, thought to be the last recorded sighting?
18. Calgary is in which Canadian province?
19. What is the country of origin of the cheese called “Monterey Jack”?
20. Elliot Gould played whose father on the TV series Friends?
Bonus question: The Gila Cliff Dwellings and Fort Union National Monuments are in which US State? Answer in Quiz #3.
Motorcycles travelling through DC as part of the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle Ride for Freedom for American POWs and MIA soldiers on 25 May 2014.
Photo: Hugette Roe.
Answers: 1.Rose 2.100m qualifying heat 3.Plimsoll Line 4.Milk teeth 5.Lazarus Rising 6.Arafura Sea 7.Born To Be Wild 8.Pikachu 9.True 10.Quarter to 4 11.Water 12.1972 13.Men’s field hockey 14.Bat 15.The Living End 16.James l 17.Dodo 18.Alberta 19.USA 20.Ross and Monica.
Bonus question answer (from Quiz #1): A kangaroo and an emu featured on the Australian coat of arms to symbolise a nation moving forward, and that neither animal can move backwards easily.
