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The Natural World, Institutions, Which is Taller?, Assassinations, and Beauty Brands.
The Natural World
The great outdoors.
What type of animal lives in a holt?
Also the faunal emblem of Queensland, which iconic Australian animal does not have an official collective noun?
Bark from what tree was used as a pain relieving precursor to aspirin?
What word beginning with the letter C is given to a large depression formed when a volcano erupts and collapses?
Silkworms mostly eat the leaves of what plant?
The Natural World
Institutions
Time to get organised.
The main site of which organisation houses the Large Hadron Collider?
The insect repellent Aerogard, the polymer banknote and the Hendra virus vaccine all exist due to work undertaken by researchers working for which national Australian science agency?
The Dharma Initiative is a fictional research organisation in which long-running TV series that debuted in 2004?
Australia's first banking institution, the Bank of New South Wales, is now known by what name?
Which Ivy League university was the first one to be founded in North America?
Institutions
Which is Taller?
Size matters. We’ll give you two items, can you tell us which is taller?
The Sydney Harbour Bridge or a light tower at the Melbourne Cricket Ground?
The Burj Khalifa (world's tallest building) or Angel Falls (world's highest waterfall)?
Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) or the Roman Colosseum?
The Taj Mahal or the world’s tallest known tree, a California coastal redwood?
The tallest giraffe ever recorded or a 1960s London double-decker bus?
Which is Taller?
Assassinations
Somewhere out there was a bullet with their name on it.
In 336 BCE, Philip II of Macedon was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. Which historical figure, then just 20 years old, succeeded him on the throne?
One of the key events in the lead-up to World War I was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in which European city - Skopje, Sarajevo or Sofia?
In a 1965 interview, when asked how he might die, which future assassination victim quipped “We’ll either go in a plane crash or we’ll be popped off by some loony”?
Worn by Jackie Kennedy the day her husband President John F. Kennedy was assassinated was a pink suit made in line with a design of which French fashion house?
The most recent assassination of a sitting head of state was that of the President of which Caribbean nation who was shot dead in residence in 2021?
Assassinations
Beauty Brands
Can you name the female celebrity behind these skincare brands?
Fenty Beauty
Flower Beauty
r.e.m beauty
Honest Beauty
Rare Beauty
Beauty Brands
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