Quizmaster John James Maloney has a tough quiz this week.
QUESTIONS
1 What is a squircle?
2 What are Cuisenaire rods?
3 The City of Onkaparinga is famous for its factory that produced high quality blankets. Which state or territory is Onkaparinga in?
4 What is an eight-letter word beginning with Q and meaning a soft muddy area of ground?
5 Which duo recorded the 1976 album Bigger than Both of Us which spawned the number 1 hit Rich Girl?
6 George C. Scott won (and declined) an Academy Award playing the part of which World War 2 general?
7 In Australian slang what is a cackleberry?
8 Bill Urben was a pioneer in what Northern Rivers location?
9 What are the names of the two sisters who won gold medals in canoeing at the Paris Olympics?
10 In what popular card games is there a left bower and a right bower (a jumped-up jack)?
ANSWERS
1 A shape somewhere between a square and a circle often used in car headlights.
2 Colourful wooden blocks of varying length used to teach maths to children.
3 South Australia, in the southern part of Adelaide.
4 Quagmire.
5 Daryl Hall & John Oates who are generally known as Hall & Oates.
6 General George S. Patton.
7 An egg.
8 William Urben was the first White child born on the Tooloom gold diggings and the developing village of Urbenville was named after him.
9 Jessica Fox and Noemie Fox.
10 Euchre and its big sibling, 500.
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