1. Which Queensland television network general manager limbered up for the entertainment industry after receiving a Victoria Cross in Afghanistan?
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(a) Dan Keighran
(b) Ben Roberts-Smith
(c) Mark Donaldson
2.Which Victoria Cross winner had a second career as a personality on an early Australian television quiz show called Pickabox?
(a) Frank Partridge
(b) Albert Chowne
(c) Reg Rattey
3. Who fell from grace after alleging a Speaker of the House of Representatives had sexually harassed him only to return to politics to work for Pauline Hanson?
(a) Mal Brough
(b) Rob Brough
(c) James Ashby
4. Before beginning her second parliamentary stint as a senator Pauline Hanson put her name to a book that contained many predictions. Perhaps the most startling was?
(a) By 2050 Australia would be ruled by President Poona Li Hung, a part-cyborg lesbian of Chinese and Indian descent
(b) By 2050, Australia would be swamped by Muslims
(c) By 2050, one in very two Australians would own a gun
5. Which Queensland Governor was appointed Governor-General?
(a) Bill Hayden
(b) Peter Hollingworth
(c) Quentin Bryce
6. Which athlete won gold medals in the 100m and 200m in the 1956 Olympics and came out of retirement to win the 400m gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics?
(a) Wilma Rudolph
(b) Betty Cuthbert
(c) Shirley Strickland
7. What was the second act of the Australian Parliament?
(a) Consolidated Revenue
(b) Immigration Restriction Act 1901
(c) Acts Interpretation Act 1901
8. What had the National Art School's Darlinghurst site been used for before students arrived in 1922?
(a) An asylum
(b) A gaol
(c) A workhouse/orphanage
9. NASA named a space shuttle after which famous explorer's ship?
(a) Francis Drake's Golden Hind
(b) Ferdinand Magellan's Victoria
(c) James Cook's Endeavour
10. What happened to US president-elect Donald Trump in 1990?
(a) He sought bankruptcy protection for businesses he controlled.
(b) He lost a tender bid to run the Miss Universe franchise
(c) He was criticised by the New York City Commission on Human Rights for discriminating against African American tenants
11. After being roundly rejected as premier by Victorians in 1999 Jeff Kennett re-entered public life 16 years later as president of which football club?
(a) Melbourne Victory
(b) Hawthorn
(c) Melbourne Storm
12. What northern beaches suburb started life as Harbord only to be renamed what in 2008?
(a) South Curl Curl
(b) Queenscliff
(c) Freshwater
Answers: 1. (b), 2. (a), 3. (c), 4. (a), 5. (c), 6. (b), 7. (c), 8. (b), 9. (c), 10. (a), 11. (b), 12. (c).
