Here are your 10 questions for the week from Quizmaster John James Maloney.
QUESTIONS
1 What note is considered the middle of the piano keyboard?
2 What do we call the area where ice skating and ice hockey take place?
3 In what country are the Loire River and the Garonne River?
4 In the time before Australia had decimal currency, what was a zac worth?
5 What NSW mining city did singer June Bronhill come from?
6 What are you doing if you’re making a crust in Australia?
7 If someone is crying in an insincere or fake way, we say they are crying what sort of tears?
8 Who sang the 1979 number 1 hit Heart of Glass?
9 In what present day country is the site of the famous 1815 Battle of Waterloo?
10 How many pints are in a gallon?
ANSWERS
1 Middle C.
2 A rink.
3 France.
4 Sixpence (this became five cents once we converted to decimal currency in 1966).
5 Broken Hill – the city raised the funds to send the future coloratura soprano opera singer, performer and actor overseas for professional training as a singer. She honoured the town by changing her stage name from Gough to Bronhill.
6 Working or earning a living.
7 Crocodile tears.
8 Debbie Harry and Blondie.
9 Belgium. 10 There are eight pints in a gallon.
