Here is our Quizmaster John James Maloney with possibly some new words — will it trip you up?
QUESTIONS
1 What was the second best selling song in Australia in 1982 when released by Moving Pictures and the best selling Australian single of 2004 when released by Shannon Noll?
2 What town on the Richmond River has the postcode 2474?
3 What name for a town on the Northern Rivers is derived from the Bundjalung word gurigay, meaning the meeting of the waters?
4 Gymnophobia is the fear of or prejudice against what?
5 What letter was the last to be added to our alphabet in the 1500s – X, J or V?
6 What do Vauxhall and Buick make and sell?
7 What does the phrase perform your ablutions mean?
8 What type of clothing are dungarees – the word came from the Hindi language?
9 Havana is the capital city of which island nation in the West Indies?
10 What Broadway play that later became a film has the songs Kansas City, The Farmer and the Cowman, The Surrey with the Fringe on Top and Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’?
ANSWERS
1 What About Me?
2 Kyogle.
3 Coraki.
4 It’s a fear of nudity – seeing someone nude or being seen nude. And maybe of both happening at the same time. EEK!
5 The letter J.
6 Cars.
7 To wash yourself – as in the sentence Breakfast was lovely – I’m off to perform my ablutions before venturing out into the world.
8 Bib and brace overalls – a pair of pants with an extra piece of cloth that covers all or part of the chest and is held in place by a strap over each shoulder – like farmers overalls.
9 Cuba.
10 Oklahoma!