#264
Worth a Shot, NAIDOC Week 2025, Mambo No. 5, Niche Sports, and Odd One Out.
Worth a Shot
A friendly reminder to get your flu shot.
Which artist released the 1980 single “Hit Me with Your Best Shot”?
Who played Seth Rogen’s love interest, U.S. Secretary of State Charlotte Field, in the 2019 romcom Long Shot?
How many millilitres are in a standard Australian shot of spirits?
Which powerful 2025 Netflix series featured four episodes that were each filmed in one continuous shot?
“The shot heard round the world” is a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem about the beginning of which 18th century conflict?
Worth a Shot
NAIDOC Week 2025
Strength, Vision, Legacy.
The “I” in NAIDOC stands for: Indigenous, Islanders, or Information?
Top End Wedding, set mainly in the Tiwi Islands, is a 2019 romantic comedy co-written by and starring which Logie-winning Larrakia actress?
In the local Nyoongar language, Boorloo is the traditional name for the place where you’ll now find which state capital?
Which ARIA-winning hip hop artist and dancer with an alliterative alias raps in a mix of English and Yolŋu Matha?
In 2024, Waanyi author Alexis Wright became the first person to win which prestigious literary prize twice?
NAIDOC Week 2025
Mambo No. 5
We tell you "a little bit" about some ladies; you tell us their names.
She won the 1990 French Open and is still the youngest person of any gender to do so.
She’s a Kosovo-born, UK-raised pop star whose biggest hits include “Let You Love Me” and “Your Song”.
She was Saturday Night Live’s first female head writer and later starred in her own series about a sketch comedy show.
She’s been a news anchor and presenter on Network 10 for nearly 35 years and is the vice-president of Hockey Australia.
She was played by Julie Andrews in the eponymous 1964 film and Emily Blunt in its 2018 sequel.
Mambo No. 5
Niche Sports
Go beyond the ball.
What Spanish city hosts the annual Running of the Bulls?
Multiple injuries are often reported at an annual event in England where participants chase what food item down a steep hill: onions, cheese, or bread?
Which Australian city has held an annual boat race since 1974 where all vessels are constructed from beer cans and other drink containers?
In the Scottish sport of caber tossing, what is a caber?
What sport with origins in 19th-century Finnish folklore allows techniques including the piggyback, the fireman’s carry, and “Estonian style”?
Niche Sports
Odd One Out
Name the option that doesn’t belong.
Not a prime number: 11, 37, 49, 79
Not a town in Tasmania: Donnybrook, Penguin, Tomahawk, Bagdad
Not an allium: Onion, garlic, fennel, chives
Not in a Star Wars feature film title: To, The, Of, A
Not part of the Hindu triple deity Trimurti: Brahma, Skanda, Vishnu, Shiva
Odd One Out
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