#273

Remember This?, Pony Club, Small Screen Small Towns, What’s Your Type?, and Phobias.

Remember This?

Oi, Australia, let's take a trip down memory lane.

1

ABC comedy series The Aunty Jack Show aired a late-night special episode on February 28, 1975 to introduce what feature to Australian TV?

2

In 1983, Bob Hawke famously said “Any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum!” while celebrating an Australian team's victory in what sporting event?

3

In May 2000, around 250,000 people marched across which Australian landmark in support of Reconciliation?

4

The east coast of Australia saw cancelled flights, road closures, and public transport shutdowns in late September 2009 as a result of what meteorological event?

5

In an Australian kebab shop – as immortalised in federal senate Hansard in 2016 – what does HSP stand for?

Remember This?

Pony Club

Now that’s a horse of a different colour.

6

From which Northern hemisphere country does the Shetland pony originate?

7

Ginuwine’s classic 90s track “Pony” re-entered the charts in 2012 and 2015 thanks to the first two films in which series?

8

The “pony car”, a sporty four-seater style with a long hood, became popular following the 1964 release of which classic model?

9

What is the name of claymation icon Gumby’s sidekick, a red-orange pony?

10

Later adapted into a 1983 film by Francis Ford Coppola, which 1967 novel features a character called Ponyboy Curtis?

Pony Club

Small Screen Small Towns

We describe a show (and give you the title's initial/s); you tell us the eponymous setting.

11

In a Washington state mill town, strange events transpire following the murder of a teen beauty queen. (TP)

12

Four foul-mouthed fourth-graders deal with constant chaos in their Colorado town. (SP)

13

A spoilt, wealthy family lose almost everything and must adapt to life in a small town they own. (SC)

14

A classic comics franchise turned increasingly unhinged Netflix teen drama, sharing a cast member with the first show in this category. (R)

15

A by-the-book cop tries to solve a series of murders in her wife’s quirky Tasmanian hometown. (D)

Small Screen Small Towns

What’s Your Type?

This round is key.

16

The em dash (—) has recently developed a reputation as a notorious “tell” of what?

17

True or false: you can type the word typewriter using only the top row of letters on a standard English keyboard.

18

The interrobang is a glyph that combines both the characters and meanings of which two punctuation marks?

19

Which of the following is not a sans-serif typeface: Futura, Helvetica or Garamond?

20

What name derived from the ancient Greek for "leave out" is used to describe the three consecutive dots indicating skipped words or a sentence trailing off?

What’s Your Type?

Phobias

What are you so afraid of? We’ll give you a phobia – you tell us what its sufferers fear.

21

Acrophobia

22

Haemophobia

23

Nyctophobia

24

Entomophobia

25

Triskaidekaphobia

Phobias

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