Unless you put a cork in it, you might talk to the Cookie Monster after this quiz

See how you go this week with Quizmaster John James Maloney’s questions.

QUESTIONS

1 In what state or territory is Smiggin Holes?

2 In the 1969 film Paint your Wagon, Clint Eastwood sings I Talk to the … what?

3 What colour is Cookie Monster on Sesame Street?

4 What are you being told to do in Australia if someone shouts the expression to you put a cork in it?

5 What is a casuarina?

6. Cillian Murphy recently won what award?

7 A famous jail in Southwark in London is today used as a common nickname for a prison. What is the nickname?

8 Colonel Wilhelm Klink was a character in what TV sitcom?

9 The name of a former Surveyor-General of India is well known today because it is attached to one of the world’s landmarks. What is the name?

10 Philip Bailey and what other singer had the big 1985 hit song Easy Lover?

ANSWERS

1. NSW (Snowy Mountains Area).

2 Trees (I Talk to the Trees).

3 Blue.

4 You are being told or asked to be quiet.

5 A tree. (An Australian sheoke).

6 The Academy Award for Best Actor. He also won a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award – for portraying J. Robert Oppenheimer in the film Oppenheimer.

7 Clink (hence to be thrown in the clink).

8 Hogan’s Heroes.

9 Mount Everest was named in honour of George Everest.

10 Phil Collins.

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