Quizmaster John James Maloney has 10 new ones for you (with a theme).
QUESTIONS
1 In what state or territory is Monkey Mia?
2 What was the 2008 film with Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan that was set in Greece and featured many ABBA songs?
3 What is the meaning of the phrase mea culpa?
4 The Hollywood actor once married to Frank Sinatra and originally named Maria De Lourdes Villiers Farrow was better known in her acting career as who?
5 First recorded in various Aboriginal languages in Victoria in the 1830s, mia-mia refers to what?
6 Who founded online women’s digital media site MamaMia.com.au after leaving Cosmopolitan Australia where she had been editor?
7 What suburb of the Gold Coast shares its name with a large city in Florida, USA?
8 What country has Mia Mottley been Prime Minister of since 2018? Barbados or Fiji?
9 Mia Murray is a well known Australian sportsperson – in what sport, basketball or golf?
10 In what year was Abba’s Mamma Mia number 1 in Australia? Was it 1975 or 1982?
ANSWERS
1 Western Australia.
2 Mamma Mia!
3 In Latin it means my fault. It is often said to express it was my fault, I apologize.
4 Mia Farrow. Bonus trivia: Her father was Australian film director, producer and screenwriter John Villiers Farrow and her mother was Irish actor Maureen O’Sullivan.
5 A temporary hut or dwelling.
6 Mia Freedman.
7 Miami.
8 Barbados.
9 Basketball.
10 1975 – it spent 10 weeks at Number 1.
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