Quiz #179 - Saturday Quiz Time

#179

Talking Heads, Change, Movies by Opening Line, Fashion, and Animal by Species.

Talking Heads

This must be the quiz.

Travis Head recently became the fifth Australian to score a century in a Cricket World Cup final. Name two of the other four.

What name is given to the soft spots on a newborn baby’s head where the skull bones haven’t come together yet?

What idiom means to attempt, continuously and fruitlessly, to accomplish some task or achieve some goal that is or seems ultimately hopeless?

A two-headed version of what animal appears on the flags of Albania, Montenegro and Serbia?

Michele Bullock is the first woman to head what Australian organisation?

Talking Heads

Change

It’s the only constant.

Adaptations of Franz Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis often depict protagonist Gregor Samsa as having transformed into what kind of insect?

Later adopted by the NBA in 1979, what significant rule change in basketball was first trialled in the 1960s to "give the smaller players a chance to compete"?

In 2021, the second line of the Australian National Anthem was changed from ‘For we are young and free’ to what?

In mathematics and physics, the uppercase version of what Greek letter is used to denote change?

Raven Darkhölme is the alter ego of what shapeshifting comic book character?

Change

Movies by Opening Line

Can you name the movie based on its first line of dialogue?

“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.” (1971)

“I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959 - a long time ago, but only if you measure in terms of years.” (1986)

“Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f***ing big television.” (1996)

“Who am I? You sure you want to know? The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.” (2001)

“The rumours of my promiscuity have been greatly exaggerated. I used to be anonymous, invisible to the opposite sex. If Google Earth were a guy, he couldn't find me if I was dressed up as a 10-story building.” (2010)