Ooops – bit slow on the quiz this week. Apologies.

Going to try something a bit different this week – a running theme – let me know what you think (it’s very loose on Q2).

[Q1.] Which 1951 movie, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, is described by IMDB as “In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.”?

[Q2.] What is the chemical element with the symbol Au?

[Q3.] Which 1975 classic song has the following opening lines?

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.

Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I’m easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Anyway the wind blows doesn’t really matter to me, to me.

[Q4.] What is the capital of Jamaica?

[Q5.] Which American adult animated situation comedy of manners created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels that ran from 1997 to 2010 followed a middle-class Methodist family in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas?

[Q6.] This week we, in Australia, celebrated Elizabeth Windsors’ official birthday in which month is her real birthday?

[Q7.] How many physical pieces does each player have at the start of a game of chess?

[Q8.] Which waterfall, located at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, while neither the widest, nor the tallest, it does have the world’s largest sheet of falling water?

[Q9.] With the nickname of the “king of clay” who recently won his 5th consecutive French Open?

[Q10.] On 13th June 2005 a jury in Santa Maria, California acquits which singer of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo?

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