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Mae West's last film

Sextet

The only Australian state without an upper house in its state parliament

Queensland

The feminist that wrote 'Sexual Politics' and 'Flying'

Kate Millet

The number of feet in a mile

5280

The only two countries to win the Davis Cup in the 1950s

Australia and the U.S.A.

This Australian bushranger was decapitated so that his head could be examined by a phrenologist

Mad Dan Morgan

This English novelist once called himself "a priest of love"

D.H. Lawerence

The number of spaces on a Scrabble board

225

The highway that joins Alice Springs and Darwin

Stuart Highway

The year Daddy Cool's hit Eagle Rock became No. 1 in Australia

1971

The store that first opened in Australia in 1971 with the slogan "Nothing over a shilling"

Coles

According to Harry Kemelman the rabbi slept late on this day

Friday

The boiling point of water at sea level on the Fahrenheit scale

212 degrees

Where Phar Lap's stuffed hide is kept on display

National Museum, Melbourne

The principal language of Trinidad and Tobago

English

This woman's stage tribute to female singers is called A Star is Torn

Robyn Archer

The first European to visit what today are the Hawaiian Islands

Captain Cook

Ben Hall the Bushranger and Ned Kelly's Last Stand were both written by

Frank Clune

Where Mercator's Projection is found

On a map

What Charlie Chaplin was known as

The Little Tramp

The brand of scotch whisky John Gorton promoted

Grouse

The alternative title of the play Peter Pan

The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up

The letter that appears the most in Scrabble

E

The largest museum in the world

The Louvre

The British art historian that presented the TV series Civilisation

Sir Kenneth Clark

The mineral Poseidon announced it had found in 1969, causing a stock market boom

Nickel

There are this many Gutenberg Bibles

Twenty-one

This strait leads into San Francisco Bay

Golden Gate Strait

Will Rogers, Carol Lombard and Mike Todd died this way

Plane crashes

This person broke Tennessee law by teaching the theory of evolution in 1925

John T. Scopes

This beautiful youth pined for the love of his reflection

Narcissus

What frogs have in their mouths that toads don't

Teeth

The Easybeats song Friday on my Mind was later recorded by this artist

David Bowie

This line divided the North and South during the U.S. CIvil War

The Mason-Dixon line

The Emily Bronte novel that features Heathcliff

Wuthering Heights

This Aboriginal boxer's fights with Roko Spanja and Chuck Wilburn resulted in their deaths

Hector Thompson

This city holds Queensland's Festival of Flowers each September

Toowoomba

Dr. Zhivago's theme song

Lara's Theme

The French actress that was the first guest of Sydney's new Australia Hotel in 1891

Sarah Bernhardt

She wrote "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"

Gertrude Stein

This Western Australian sprinter won five gold medals at the 1938 Sydney Empire Games

Decima Norman

What Casablanca translates to in Spanish

"White house"

This means goodbye in Orkan

Nanoo-nanoo

The year Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was published

1868

The three main fossil fuels

Coal, oil and natural gas

What Rudy Valee was known as

The Vagabond Lover

What the positive electrode of a battery is called

The anode

The three Alpine skiing events

Downhill, giant slalom and slalom

This Nevil Shute novel is about the doomed survivors of a nuclear war

On the Beach

The major responsibility of a sweeper in soccer

To defend

The river Hobart is built on

The Derwent

He portrayed W.C. Fields in the film W.C. Fields and Me

Rod Steiger

The foot Neil Armstrong first put down on the moon

The left

This law of thermodynamics is also called the law of entropy

The second law

Where the card game bridge got its name from

Russian Whist or "biritch"

The film Frank Sinatra portrayed a drug addict in

The Man with the Golden Arm

The number of Israeli commandos that died in the Entebbe raid

One

The name of Tom Sawyer's aunt with whom he lives

Polly

The number of compass point names there are

Thirty-two

The city that holds the Warana Festival every spring

Brisbane

Arthur Sullivan's collaborator

William Gilbert

The date Linda Eastman married Paul McCartney in

March 12, 1969

The number of novelletes that make up the 1959 work Hawaii

Four

The major constituent of coral, limestone and sea shells

Calcium carbonate or calcite

What champagne is bottled in

A Jeroboam

The colour of mourning in Muslim countries

White

The Briton that has been called "the greatest driver never to have won a World Driver's Championship"

Stirling Moss

The number of czars buried at the Kremlin

Forty-seven

The date the Treaty of Versailles was signed in

June 28, 1919

The fisherman Santiago is in this Ernest Hemingway novel

The Old Man and the Sea