Welcome to the new Australian financial year – no bargains here – just quiz/trivia questions.

[Q1.] Who played the role of Viola De Lesseps in the 1998 movie “Shakespeare in Love”?

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

[Q3.] Which 1974 song has the following opening lines?

She keeps her Moet et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet
‘Let them eat cake’ she says
Just like Marie Antoinette
A built-in remedy
For Kruschev and Kennedy
At anytime an invitation
You can’t decline

Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice

[Q4.] What is the capital of the country Sierra Leone?

[Q5.] Where is the “father of English Literature” and author of “The Canterbury Tales”, Geoffrey Chaucer, buried?

[Q6.] How do we now know the place originally settled as New Amsterdam?

[Q7.] On a standard dart board what number is at the bottom, immediately opposite 20?

[Q8.] Nick Kyrgios sprang onto the Aussie tennis scene with his win over Rafa Nadal, but who beat him in the next round?

[Q9.] What does a proctologist specialise in?

[Q10.] On the 4th July 1946 after 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from which country?

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