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72 Cards in this Set
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The Hutt River Province in Western Australia claimed to secede from the Commonwealth in this year |
1970 |
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American entrepreneur Lee Gordon brought rock 'n' roll stars to Australia for his Big Show tours late in this decade |
1950s |
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Who Australia' s Princess Shirley was married to |
Prince Leonard of Hutt |
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Shakespeare play that features the line "A plague on both your houses" |
Romeo and Juliet |
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The sea that separates Italy from Yugoslavia |
The Adriatic |
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Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey and |
Mary Travers |
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The name of Aristotle Onassis's yacht |
The 'Christina' |
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Jay Gatsby's occupation |
Bootlegger |
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What pointed letters to a handwriting specialist indicate |
Competitive and aggressive behaviour |
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The value of face cards in Cribbage |
Ten |
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This country contains the westernmost point in South America |
Peru |
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The TV show David Cassidy appeared regularly in |
The Partridge Family |
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This Australian military leader had a university named after him |
Sir John Monash |
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The oldest newspaper still being printed in Australia |
The Sydney Morning Herald |
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What a mandrill is |
A kind of baboon |
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Surname of Billy and Peter l, both successful jockeys |
Cook |
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This South American country took its name from the Inca for "cold winter" |
Chile |
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The Aussie who played James Bond |
George Lazenby |
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The city Emperor Augustus claimed he found brick and left marble |
Rome |
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Becky Thatcher's boyfriend |
Tom Sawyer |
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New Zealand defeated Australia in the hockey final at this Olympics |
1976 in Montreal |
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Niagara Falls is bypassed by this canal |
Welland Canal |
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Ronald Biggs performed with this punk group |
The Sex Pistols |
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The country Lord Haw Haw broadcasted propaganda for in World War II |
Germany |
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This Shakespeare play takes place in Elsinore |
Hamlet |
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What the face cards count in Gin Rummy |
Ten |
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What South American cowboys are called |
Gauchos |
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In the movies Ma Barker was played by these three women |
Claire Trevor, Blanche Yurka and Shelley Winters |
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The year the US received all the Nobel Prize awards |
1976 |
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What Bulldog Brower and Killer Kowalski were |
Professional wrestlers |
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Three-time Melbourne Cup winner Jack Purtell had this nickname |
Schnozzle |
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Samoa's capital, Apia is on this island |
Upolu Island |
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The man who appealed to the oldies in Rush and to the kids in Playschool |
John Waters |
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This country hosted the 1978 World Cup soccer finals |
Argentina |
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Clean-cut American singer Pat Boone travelled to Australia for the Festival of Light in this year |
1975 |
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This man succeeded Nikita Krushchev as first secretary of the Communist Party |
Leonid Brezhnev |
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The last white man to hold the world heavyweight boxing championship |
Ingemar Johansson |
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The name of the magic pudding |
Albert |
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The Aboriginal poetess and social activist who wrote My People |
Kath Walker |
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The kingdom of 150 Pacific islands first named the Friendly Islands by Captain Cook |
Tonga |
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The 1962 spy novel that introduced the character Harry Palmer |
The Ipcress File |
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New Zealand lizard seen as the closest relative of the dinosaurs |
The tuatara |
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The kind of racing horses that wear hopples |
Pacers |
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The longest river in Asia |
The Yangtze |
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Dumbo's mother |
Mrs Jumbo |
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U Thant preceded this man as United Nations secretary general |
Kurt Waldheim |
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Sir John Betjeman replaced this man as Britain's poet laureate in 1972 |
Cecil Day Lewis |
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The first Australian yacht to challenge for the America's Cup |
Gretel |
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Mount Wog Wog is in this Australian state |
N.S.W. |
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The Glenn Miller Orchestra's theme song is this |
Moonlight Serenade |
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The Georgia town Jimmy Carter was from |
Plains |
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Oedipus killed his father and married... |
...his mother |
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The first US satellite Explorer I, was launched on this date |
February 1, 1958 |
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The two ingredients of a martini |
Gin and vermouth |
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The hills that form part of the border between England and Scotland |
Cheviot Hills |
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The first words spoken on a film soundtrack |
You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks |
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The country Kim Philby was working for |
The Soviet Union |
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What Venus de Milo is missing |
Arms |
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The pampas are in this country |
Argentina |
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Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick portrayed the alcoholic couple in this film |
The Days of Wine and Roses |
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Fleet-footed five-eighth named Australia's Rugby Union captain in 1982 |
Mark Ella |
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He played the title role in The Pawnbroker |
Rod Steiger |
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The name of 'The Man Who Came to Dinner |
Sheridan Ironside |
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Kerry Packer employed this golfer to re-design Sydney's Australian Golf Club in the 1970s |
Jack Nicklaus |
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Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police where made by this company |
Crawford Productions |
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The actors that played the male and female lead roles in Far East |
Bryan Brown and Helen Morse |
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This woman's Madame Tussaud's was opened in London's Baker Street in 1834 |
Marie Grosholtz |
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The names of three of the characters from Agatha Christie's play 'The Mousetrap' |
Molly Ralston, Major Metcalf and Detective-Sergeant Crotter |
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The country that claims the largest slice of Antarctica |
Australia |
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The year Maxmilian Schell won the best actor Oscar for Judgement at Nuremberg |
1961 |
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Wife of William Booth and co-founder of the Salvation Army |
Catherine |
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The title of Alfred Hitchcock's biography |
Hitch |
