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70 Cards in this Set
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Mae West's last film |
Sextet |
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The only Australian state without an upper house in its state parliament |
Queensland |
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The feminist that wrote 'Sexual Politics' and 'Flying' |
Kate Millet |
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The number of feet in a mile |
5280 |
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The only two countries to win the Davis Cup in the 1950s |
Australia and the U.S.A. |
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This Australian bushranger was decapitated so that his head could be examined by a phrenologist |
Mad Dan Morgan |
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This English novelist once called himself "a priest of love" |
D.H. Lawerence |
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The number of spaces on a Scrabble board |
225 |
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The highway that joins Alice Springs and Darwin |
Stuart Highway |
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The year Daddy Cool's hit Eagle Rock became No. 1 in Australia |
1971 |
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The store that first opened in Australia in 1971 with the slogan "Nothing over a shilling" |
Coles |
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According to Harry Kemelman the rabbi slept late on this day |
Friday |
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The boiling point of water at sea level on the Fahrenheit scale |
212 degrees |
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Where Phar Lap's stuffed hide is kept on display |
National Museum, Melbourne |
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The principal language of Trinidad and Tobago |
English |
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This woman's stage tribute to female singers is called A Star is Torn |
Robyn Archer |
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The first European to visit what today are the Hawaiian Islands |
Captain Cook |
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Ben Hall the Bushranger and Ned Kelly's Last Stand were both written by |
Frank Clune |
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Where Mercator's Projection is found |
On a map |
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What Charlie Chaplin was known as |
The Little Tramp |
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The brand of scotch whisky John Gorton promoted |
Grouse |
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The alternative title of the play Peter Pan |
The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up |
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The letter that appears the most in Scrabble |
E |
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The largest museum in the world |
The Louvre |
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The British art historian that presented the TV series Civilisation |
Sir Kenneth Clark |
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The mineral Poseidon announced it had found in 1969, causing a stock market boom |
Nickel |
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There are this many Gutenberg Bibles |
Twenty-one |
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This strait leads into San Francisco Bay |
Golden Gate Strait |
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Will Rogers, Carol Lombard and Mike Todd died this way |
Plane crashes |
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This person broke Tennessee law by teaching the theory of evolution in 1925 |
John T. Scopes |
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This beautiful youth pined for the love of his reflection |
Narcissus |
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What frogs have in their mouths that toads don't |
Teeth |
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The Easybeats song Friday on my Mind was later recorded by this artist |
David Bowie |
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This line divided the North and South during the U.S. CIvil War |
The Mason-Dixon line |
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The Emily Bronte novel that features Heathcliff |
Wuthering Heights |
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This Aboriginal boxer's fights with Roko Spanja and Chuck Wilburn resulted in their deaths |
Hector Thompson |
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This city holds Queensland's Festival of Flowers each September |
Toowoomba |
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Dr. Zhivago's theme song |
Lara's Theme |
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The French actress that was the first guest of Sydney's new Australia Hotel in 1891 |
Sarah Bernhardt |
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She wrote "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" |
Gertrude Stein |
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This Western Australian sprinter won five gold medals at the 1938 Sydney Empire Games |
Decima Norman |
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What Casablanca translates to in Spanish |
"White house" |
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This means goodbye in Orkan |
Nanoo-nanoo |
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The year Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was published |
1868 |
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The three main fossil fuels |
Coal, oil and natural gas |
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What Rudy Valee was known as |
The Vagabond Lover |
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What the positive electrode of a battery is called |
The anode |
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The three Alpine skiing events |
Downhill, giant slalom and slalom |
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This Nevil Shute novel is about the doomed survivors of a nuclear war |
On the Beach |
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The major responsibility of a sweeper in soccer |
To defend |
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The river Hobart is built on |
The Derwent |
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He portrayed W.C. Fields in the film W.C. Fields and Me |
Rod Steiger |
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The foot Neil Armstrong first put down on the moon |
The left |
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This law of thermodynamics is also called the law of entropy |
The second law |
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Where the card game bridge got its name from |
Russian Whist or "biritch" |
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The film Frank Sinatra portrayed a drug addict in |
The Man with the Golden Arm |
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The number of Israeli commandos that died in the Entebbe raid |
One |
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The name of Tom Sawyer's aunt with whom he lives |
Polly |
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The number of compass point names there are |
Thirty-two |
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The city that holds the Warana Festival every spring |
Brisbane |
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Arthur Sullivan's collaborator |
William Gilbert |
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The date Linda Eastman married Paul McCartney in |
March 12, 1969 |
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The number of novelletes that make up the 1959 work Hawaii |
Four |
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The major constituent of coral, limestone and sea shells |
Calcium carbonate or calcite |
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What champagne is bottled in |
A Jeroboam |
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The colour of mourning in Muslim countries |
White |
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The Briton that has been called "the greatest driver never to have won a World Driver's Championship" |
Stirling Moss |
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The number of czars buried at the Kremlin |
Forty-seven |
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The date the Treaty of Versailles was signed in |
June 28, 1919 |
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The fisherman Santiago is in this Ernest Hemingway novel |
The Old Man and the Sea |