QUESTIONS
1 Name two sports played outdoors on a diamond.
2 How many years are celebrated in a diamond wedding anniversary?
3 Which 1971 James Bond film starring Sean Connery takes its title and Shirley Bassey-sung theme from a diamond-smuggling plot?
4 What chemical element makes up 100 percent of a pure natural diamond?
5 Astronomers nicknamed BPM 37093 – a massive crystallized white dwarf star – after which 1967 Beatles song?
6 Who had the hit songs Song Sung Blue, Sweet Caroline and Cracklin’ Rosie?
7 The Shire of Diamantina is in which state or territory?
8 Complete this song title: Diamonds Are a Girl’s …
9 If someone is described as a bit of a rough diamond, what does it mean?
10 What dangerous American animal is called a diamondback?
ANSWERS
1 Baseball and softball.
2 60 years.
3 Diamonds Are Forever.
4 Carbon.
5 Its core is crystallised carbon – the same material that forms a diamond – and so it has been nicknamed Lucy after the Beatles‘ hit Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
6 Neil Diamond.
7 By area, it is the second largest LGA in Queensland but has a tiny population of just 266 people.
8 Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend is a jazz song from the 1949 stage musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
9 The expression refers to a person with great potential that needs polishing, training, or refinement to truly shine – just as a rough diamond needs to be cut and polished to achieve its potential value.
10 There are two venomous diamondback rattlesnakes. There is also a non-venomous diamondback watersnake. The western diamondback rattlesnake probably causes the greatest number of serious snakebites in the US. The eastern diamondback rattlesnake can deliver seven times the venom needed to kill a human adult. And yet Americans worry about our snakes.