Our Quizmaster John James Maloney is feeling all aglow – and it’s golden.
QUESTIONS
1 Which British band scored a massive global hit with their anthem Gold, released in 1983 and famously accompanied by a lavish music video filmed in Spain?
2 What is the chemical symbol for gold on the periodic table, and for a bonus point – which Latin word is it derived from?
3 In the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, what was the gruesome fate of the character Jill Masterson, whose body was famously painted entirely in gold?
4 In the classic children’s fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin, what material is the miller’s daughter forced to spin into gold overnight inside a dungeon?
5 What do modern Olympic Games “gold medals” actually consist of? (Hint: They aren’t solid gold).
6 Gold was mined around which river starting with T near Drake?
7 What gives the Swiss liqueur Goldschläger the glittering inside the bottle?
8 What is Australia’s national floral emblem?
9 In the classic 1981 drama On Golden Pond, which real-life father and daughter acting duo played the central roles of Norman and Chelsea Thayer?
10 What sugar substance is an ingredient in Anzac biscuits?
ANSWERS
1 Spandau Ballet.
2 Au, derived from the Latin word aurum (meaning gold or dawn).
3 She died from “skin suffocation” or asphyxiation.
4 Straw.
5 Silver (they are required by the International Olympic Committee to be made of at least 92.5% silver and plated with a minimum of 6 grams of pure gold).
6 Timbarra.
7 Real, floating flakes of 24-karat gold leaf. The German word goldschläger means gold beater and refers to gold leaf makers who beat bars of gold into extremely thin sheets.
8 Golden wattle.
9 Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda. Katharine Hepburn also starred.
10 Golden syrup.