
Quizmaster John James Maloney has 10 new quiz questions to test your knowledge.
QUESTIONS
1 Who was the Grafton man who became a giant star of Australian Country Music, winning 45 Golden Guitars, nine Deadly Awards (Australian Indigenous Artist Awards), four Country Music Association of Australia Entertainer of the Year awards and two National Indigenous Music Awards?
2 What is the meaning of boondocks?
3 Encephalitis is the swelling of which body organ?
4 What does XVI in Roman numerals mean in modern numbering?
5 Which was the first European nation to elect a woman as prime minister?
6 Which state or territory has a border with every other mainland state or territory?
7 Born 100 years ago on July 10, 1926, Fred Gwynne played the father, Herman, on what 1960s TV comedy?
8 What NAIDOC Week anniversary was it this year?
9 Which Aria Hall of Fame member had the hit Royal Telephone?
10 Lismore’s Frank Roberts represented Australia at the Olympics in what sport? 
ANSWERS
1 Troy Cassar-Daley.
2 A remote rural location far from the city with few or no conveniences or entertainment facilities. An American equivalent of Woop Woop or out in the sticks. Originally from bundok, a Tagalog word for mountain brought back from the Philippines by US soldiers.
3 The brain.
4 16.
5 The UK when it elected Margaret Thatcher in 1979. Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka) was the first woman to be elected as prime minister anywhere in the world – in 1960.
6 South Australia.
7 The Munsters.
8 The 50th.
9 Jimmy Little – his 1963 Royal Telephone reached Number 1 in Sydney charts and sold 75,000 records.
10 Frank was a champion boxer and was the first Aboriginal Australian athlete to gain Olympic selection. He was one of the first Indigenous Australians (along with boxer Adrian Blair and basketballer Michael Ah Matt) to participate in the Olympic Games – in 1964 in Tokyo.