May 2004 Trivia Questions

Round 1 questions
1. One point. On which Melbourne train line would you find Syndal Station?
2. One point. Which film contains the following quote "I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank pina coladas. At sunset we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get THAT day .. over and over and over?"
3. One point. What is the capital of Uruguay?
4. One point. Name the TV show that had this as its theme.
5. One point. Who painted "The Last Supper"?
6. One point. In which year did man first set foot on the moon?
7. One point. Who were Bingo, Fleegle, Drooper and Snorky?
8. One point. Who won this years academy award for best actress?
9. Two points. Name the song and Artist.
10. One point. What does the surname "Faulkner" mean?

Round 2 questions
1. One point. What claim to fame does Lake Baikal in Siberia have?
2. One point. In athletics, what significant event happened on the 6th of May, 1954?
3. One point. Which homonym : is a unit of measure, means to become tense and is a part of a tree?
4. One point. Name the TV show that had this as its theme.
5. One point. What do you call a person employed in loading and stowing ship's cargo?
6. One point. Which letter of the alphabet is depicted by a dot in morse code?
7. One point. True or False: The saxaphone is a woodwind instrument.
8. One point. After surviving the mutiny on the ship Bounty, what was the next position held by Captain Willian Bligh?
9. Three points. Name the song, the Artist and the person who wrote this song.
10. One point. Which well to do suburb of Melbourne has a name which means "Swamp with tea tree"?

Famous Faces
Name the people appearing on this sheet.

Round 3 questions
1. One point. Which oscar winning film, based on a novel, is an anagram of : Toil Kirk, bald coming?
2. One point. Begun in melbourne in 1980, which was the name of Australia's first commercial fm station?
3. One point. Which public figure was born with the name Karol Wojtyta?
4. One point. Name the TV show that had this as its theme.
5. Three points. With which words are the letters E, L and O associated with in the phonetic alphabet?
6. One point. Who is the greek god of war?
7. One point. Which islands were once called the Sandwich Islands?
8. One point. What is the 100th element in the periodic table? (Hint: it is named after a famous physicist)
9. Two points. Name the song and Artist.
10. One point. Which animal is the largest member of the cat family?

Round 4 questions
1. Three points. In the TV series Monkey, who were Monkey's three companions?
2. Three points. Name the three types of swords used in fencing.
3. One point. Bucephalus was the favourite horse of who?
4. One point. Name the movie that had this as its theme.
5. One point. What is special about R. Zzymons of Clifton Hill?
6. Seven points. Accoring to the "World Almanac and Book of Facts", what are the seven wonders of the natural world ?
7. Two points. Name the song and the artist.
8. One point. Where would you find the "Islets of Langerhans"?
9. Three points. J.R.R Tolkien wrote "The Lord of the Rings". What do his initials stand for?
10. One point. To which church door did Martin Luther nail his 95 theses?


Tie breaker - According to the Guinness Book of Records, what is the furthest distance, in metres to two decimal points, that a marshmellow has been blow out of one nostril and caught in the mouth of a catcher?

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