Here are your 10 quiz questions from the Quizmaster John James Maloney.
QUESTIONS
1 Citizen Watch Co is an electronics company known for high quality watches that run silently and with second hands that move smoothly without jerking. What country is it based in?
2 Curlewis is a village in what state or territory?
3 What is a curlew?
4 True or False, Chief of Chatting is a job title used for a call centre manager?
5 What song was at number 1 for eight weeks in 1975 by Scottish band Pilot and was named after a woman who had the same name as a month?
6 How many oceans are there in our world?
7 What fruit’s botanical name is Ficus carica?
8 Which nation has Earth’s largest population?
9 Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd played detectives in what 1980s TV classic?
10 What sport was Ken Rosewall famous for?
ANSWERS
1 Japan.
2 Curlewis is a parish and a rural village on the Kamilaroi Highway, 16km south of Gunnedah, NSW. There is also a Curlewis rural locality in Geelong.
3 A bird.
4 True. (But, one website claiming this is so also lists a Chief Beverage Officer and then tells us that such a person is a Bartender. So maybe this question and its answer should be referred to the Circular Excommunication Transfer Repository = Rubbish bin. We’ll leave that decision to you.)
5 January.
6 Five oceans – Indian, Atlantic, Pacific, Antarctic/Southern and Arctic.
7 Fig.
8 India has edged ahead of China and now has the most people.
9 Moonlighting.