Quizmaster John James Maloney has got a few tricky ones in this week’s quiz.
QUESTIONS
1 Which Australian rock band recorded the 1975 album T.N.T.?
2 Who wrote the classic Australian novel My Brilliant Career?
3 Dirk Hartog Island is known as Wirruwana by its traditional custodians, the Malgana people; which Australian state or territory is it in?
4 Oscar Madison and Felix Ungar were characters in what Neil Simon play, movie and TV series?
5 Palen Creek Correctional Facility is in which state or territory?
6 What car brand was the first used by James Bond in books and in movies?
7 If someone uses the Australian expression charged like a wounded bull what do they mean?
8 True or false, Rod Stewart was a grave digger before becoming a pop star?
9 What is the galley on a ship?
10 Who had the hit song Shiny Happy People?
ANSWERS
1 AC/DC.
2 Miles Franklin.
3 Western Australia.
4 The Odd Couple.
5 Queensland.
6 Bentley – in the books it was a 1930 Blower Bentley in Casino Royale and on the big screen he can be seen (briefly) driving a Bentley 3½ Litre in the opening of From Russia With Love. Many people consider Aston Martin to be Bond’s chariot of choice but he drove many brands.
7 A person or company charged a very high price for something.
8 Almost true – in his 2012 autobiography he said he had gone along with the tale, but the nearest he got to it was when he had measured out plots with string on a couple of Saturdays.
9 The kitchen.
10 R.E.M.
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