Quizmatser John James Maloney has the numbers spinning.
QUESTIONS
1 How many years of bad luck was the payback if you broke a mirror, according to superstition?
2 In what state or territory is the town of 1770?
3 How many years has TV been on air regularly in Australia?
4 Which Australian TV drama of the 1970s starred Abigail and had the characters Herb and Dorrie Evans?
5 In a John Farnham cover of American band Three Dog Night’s hit, what is the loneliest number?
6 In The Bible, how many commandments were given to Moses?
7 What was our local TV station RTN’s channel number and what was the channel number for ABC TV on the Northern Rivers?
8 Who discovered Goldilocks asleep in one of their beds?
9 If I Could and Compulsory Hero were hits for what Australian group of the 1980s with a numerical name?
10 According to a folk legend, how many lives does a cat have?
ANSWERS
1 Seven years of bad luck.
2 Queensland.
3 On September 16, it was 70 years since Channel 9 began regular transmissions with “Good evening, and welcome to television”.
4 Number 96.
5 One is the Loneliest Number.
6 Ten commandments.
7 RTN was on Channel 8 from May 1962 and the ABC was on Channel 6 from April 1964.
8 The Three Bears.
9 1927.
10 Nine lives.