Quizmaster John James Maloney has a few tough questions for you this week.
QUESTIONS
1 The popular Easter camping spot Jerusalem Creek is in which local national park?
2 Musician Byron Janis died on March 14, aged 95. He was renowned in classical music for his playing of which instrument?
3 Stevie Nicks wrote, and she and Don Henley sang, the hit duet Leather and …?
4 The Icebergs Swimming Club is in which Sydney suburb?
5 In what sport if you’re good enough might you have the honour of wearing the baggy green cap?
6 The Carolina Reaper is a variety of what food plant?
7 What does the Beaufort Scale measure?
8 If you found a Lagorchestes hirsutus bernieri, what country would you be in?
9 Wrest Point, Australia’s first legal casino is in what city?
10 Aqua regia is used to dissolve what precious metal that other acids don’t?
ANSWERS
1 Bundjalung National Park.
2 Classical piano.
3 Leather and Lace – Waylon Jennings and Jessie Colter commissioned Nicks to write a song for an album of that name then didn’t use the song on it.
4 It’s the Bondi Icebergs Swimming Club at the southern end of Bondi Beach and it manages the nearby ocean pool.
5 Cricket.
6 Chili pepper.
7 The Beaufort wind force scale allows sailors and others to estimate windspeed from conditions at sea or on land – such as the size of waves or the degree a tree is pushed around by the wind.
8 You’d be in Australia. It’s a mala, also called a rufous hare-wallaby – a red-haired variety found on Bernier Island in Western Australia after its relatives went extinct on the mainland. The island is in the Shark Bay world heritage area and is near Ningaloo Reef and Carnarvon.
9 Hobart.
10 Gold.
and then