The Brandon Quiz

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The Brandon Quiz
February 21

Questions:

  1. What is the oldest train station in Australia?

  2. What is the main substance used to produce crayons?

  3. What are the names of all the oceans surrounding Australia?

  4. What was Dolly the Sheep famous for?

  5. In which US state did the first McDonald's open? 

    a. California

    b. Illinois

    c. Ohio

    d. Michigan

  6. What ingredients are used in a black velvet cocktail?

  7. The ballpoint pen was invented to replace what faulty writing instrument?

  8. If someone is taking their axillary temperature, where is the thermometer placed?

  9. What does ‘a la carte’ mean in English?

  10. Which of the following is a negative-calorie food (burns more calories digesting the food than the food itself contains)?

    a. Broccoli

    b. Celery 

    c. Cucumber

    d. None of the above

  11. What is the American word for prawn?

  12. The villain of which film required 51 puppeteers to move them?

  13. In which city was the first St Patrick's day parade held?

  14. What is the name of Salvador Dali’s painting of melting clocks?

  15. On a standard pool table, what colour is the 6-ball?

    a. Red

    b. Blue

    c. Yellow

    d. Green

  16. What does the Turing test determine in a computer?

  17. What was the name of the three-headed dog that guarded the gates to Hades?

  18. What New York City street once divided the Dutch settlement from the British and Native Americans?

  19. What movie takes its name from a Yiddish word meaning monster?

  20. What year was the first Triple J Hottest 100 broadcasted? 

    a. 1985

    b. 1987

    c. 1989

    d. 1991

answers:

  1. Flinders Street Station

  2. Wax

  3. Pacific, Indian and Southern Ocean

  4. First successfully cloned mammal

  5. (b) Illinois

  6. Stout and sparkling wine

  7. Fountain pen

  8. Under the armpit

  9. On the menu

  10. (d) None of the above (there is no scientific evidence to suggest negative-calorie food exists)

  11. Prawn (shrimp is a different species)

  12. Little Shop of Horrors

  13. New York City, USA

  14. The Persistence of Memory

  15. (d) Green

  16. If the computer is sentient

  17. Cerebus

  18. Wall Street

  19. Shrek

  20. (c) 1989