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The Ashes, The Natural World, Name That Year, Good Hair Day, and What’s Missing?
The Ashes
Don't worry – it’s not just cricket.
Which Grand Slam singles title did Ash Barty win first?
Which media franchise features the character Ash Ketchum?
True or false: The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s list of minimum equipment for an aircraft includes an ashtray.
Ash Wednesday marks the start of which religious observance?
Who holds the record for the most runs in Ashes cricket history?
The Ashes
The Natural World
Get your Bunsen burners out, it’s time for science class.
How many limbs do lobsters have?
Which colloquial Australian insult is also a family of birds including species named spangled, hair-crested and fork-tailed?
So named because of its predictable eruptions, “Old Faithful” is a cone geyser in which US National Park?
Brass is a metal alloy primarily composed of copper and which other element?
Seen often in Frida Kahlo’s paintings and beginning with the letter D, what is the official national flower of Mexico?
The Natural World
Name That Year
We’ll give you three events – can you name the year in which they all took place?
The UK votes to leave the European Union. Donald Trump is elected US President for the first time. David Bowie’s death in January kicks off a year of noted celebrity losses.
Gough Whitlam is dismissed as Prime Minister. The film Jaws is released. Microsoft is founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
The Spice Girls release their debut single “Wannabe”. John Howard succeeds Paul Keating as Prime Minister. Toshiba releases one of the first DVD players in Japan.
The Ever Given blocks the Suez Canal. Squid Game premieres on Netflix. Penrith Panthers win their first of four consecutive NRL premierships.
Sri Lanka elects the world’s first female prime minister. The Beatles arrive in Hamburg for their first professional tour. An American U-2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union.
Name That Year
Good Hair Day
We’ve gone over these questions with a fine-tooth comb.
“Business in the front, party in the back” is a phrase typically describing which hairstyle?
What hairstyling process plays a key role in the courtroom climax of Legally Blonde?
Created by sweeping a large volume of hair upwards from the face, which unisex hairstyle is named after the chief mistress of France's King Louis XV?
Which of the following actors is the only natural redhead: Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, or Sophie Turner?
The curly-topped taper fade haircut popular with Gen Z men and boys is nicknamed after what vegetable?
Good Hair Day
What’s Missing?
Can you name what each set needs to be complete?
Japanese motorcycle manufacturers nicknamed “the big four”: Honda, Suzuki, Kawasaki, …
Clean Up Australia’s Five Rs of Sustainability:
Refuse, Reduce, Repair, Recycle, …
Ingredients in RecipeTin Eats’s 3-ingredient scones:
Self-raising flour, cream...
Countries sharing a land border with Iraq:
Türkiye, Iran, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria, …
Surnames of original members of The Wiggles:
Field, Cook, Fatt, …
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