Quizmaster John James Maloney has 10 new questions for you that may make you give a damn.
QUESTIONS
1 What dam 30km west of Kyogle was completed in 1971?
2 The Aswan High Dam was constructed across which of the world’s major rivers to ease annual floods, improve irrigation and generate electricity?
3 Which controversial hydro-electric dam project in Tasmania was cancelled by the High Court of Australia in 1983 following massive environmental and voter protests?
4 Complete the alliterative title of a 1962 British naval film starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde, Damn the …
5 Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn was a quote from which 1939 film classic?
6 Complete the title of American singer/songwriter Sophie B Hawkins’s 1992 massive global hit, Damn I Wish I Was Your …
7. What is the name of a 1955 Broadway smash hit play and 1958 film that tells the tale of a baseball fan who sells his soul to the Devil to help his team beat the New York Yankees.
8 What is the name of the power station with the world’s largest generating capacity? It is part of a dam on China’s Yangtze River.
9 What mammal builds wooden dams using mud, rocks and logs to create safe habitats called lodges?
10 Which massive concrete dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona was built during the Great Depression and holds back Lake Mead? Hint: it was named after the only US President who had worked in Australia.
ANSWERS
1 Toonumbar Dam.
2 The Nile River.
3 The Gordon-below-Franklin Dam on the Gordon River but generally known as the Franklin Dam.
4 Damn the Defiant! as the film was known in some countries or H.M.S. Defiant in others.
5 Gone with the Wind.
6 Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover.
7 Damn Yankees.
8 The Three Gorges Dam.
9 The beaver.
10 The Hoover Dam – it was named after Herbert Hoover who worked in Western Australia as a gold mining engineer. He later became the US President.