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Connect Four, Numerical Novels, Her Mother’s Daughter, Creature Feature, and What Colour?

Connect Four

Four seemingly unrelated questions. For question five, we'll ask what connects their answers.

1

“Mulligan” is a term primarily used in which sport?

2

What is Peru's capital city?

3

Hugh Jackman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Cyndi Lauper are all the same award short of an EGOT – which one are they missing?

4

Which six-letter Spanish word translates to ‘saw’ or, fittingly, ‘a jagged mountain range’ in English?

5

What specific connection links the answers to the first four questions in this category?

Connect Four

Numerical Novels

Words AND numbers? What will they think of next?

6

Which 19th-century novelist is the author of Around The World In Eighty Days, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, and Five Weeks In A Balloon?

7

In 11/22/63 by Stephen King, a time traveller attempts to prevent what pivotal historical event?

8

Yann Martel’s Life Of Pi follows a young boy stranded on a life raft for over 200 days with what animal?

9

Which 2019 book by Taylor Jenkins Reid is loosely inspired by Fleetwood Mac's many break-ups?

10

Which of these is NOT one of the titular Seven Little Australians in Ethel Turner's classic novel: Bunty, Baby or Betty?

Numerical Novels

Her Mother’s Daughter

Deduce the famous mother and daughter pairs from the clues.

11

A wild legacy: These American-Australian conservationists and TV personalities both have names ending in “i”.

12

Genetic GOATs: The recording artist with the most Grammys, and the youngest individually credited Grammy winner ever.

13

A superpowered bond: The stretchy matriarch and sometimes-invisible eldest of the family who feature in the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2004.

14

A 16th-century court drama: the second of six consorts and her daughter who ruled for almost six decades.

15

Stranger than Fiction: A Tarantino regular, and her Netflix-famous nepo baby.

Her Mother’s Daughter

Creature Feature

A round that’s not really about animals.

16

In which European country is Grey Goose vodka made?

17

A flashy stunt on which classic TV show inspired the term “jumping the shark”?

18

The canopic jars – vessels topped with the heads of a baboon, falcon, jackal and human – served what purpose in Ancient Egyptian royal burial rituals?

19

Which British overseas territory and tax haven features a green turtle on its official flag?

20

A long-running meme about Perth act Tame Impala involves telling people, “Did you know it’s just one guy?” Name that one guy.

Creature Feature

What Colour?

Can you name the colour of the following things?

21

Dorothy’s slippers in the film The Wizard of Oz (1939).

22

The seats in the Australian federal House of Representatives.

23

An aircraft’s flight recorder, aka “black box”.

24

Where’s Wally’s usual trousers.

25

Cricket ball produced by Kookaburra for day-night Test matches.

What Colour?

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