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Fast Feb, Blood Test, TV Criminals, Modernish Art, and Birds of a Feather.

Fast Feb

Only 28 days; better get moving!

1

True or false: an emu would break Usain Bolt’s 100 metre world record if it ran at full speed.

2

What informal term for an unspecified short period was once proposed as an actual measurement of time, defined as the time it takes light to travel 1 centimetre?

3

Lewis Hamilton will be driving fast for which Formula One team in the 2025 World Championship?

4

What maximum cruising speed did the Concorde supersonic jet have - 1,000 km/h, 2,000 km/h, or 3,000 km/h?

5

With some species growing up to more than 1 metre a day, what is the fastest-growing plant on earth?

Fast Feb

Blood Test

This one’s for the haematologists.

6

What is the iron-containing protein that facilitates the transportation of oxygen in red blood cells?

7

To the nearest whole number, roughly how many litres of blood volume does an average adult human body contain?

8

Blood plasma is usually what colour?

9

Due to their beliefs, many members of what Christian denomination, founded in the 1870s by Charles Taze Russell, don’t accept blood transfusions?

10

What animal is most closely associated with blood letting?

Blood Test

TV Criminals

Imagine what they would get away with if the camera’s weren’t rolling?

11

Which of Bugs Bunny’s adversaries is a gunslinging outlaw who takes part of his name from a Californian national park?

12

One of Mary Louise-Parker’s best-known TV roles is Nancy Botwin, a suburban mother who initially engages in what criminal activity?

13

After Saul Goodman, which character has the most combined episode appearances across the television shows Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul - Mike Ehrmantraut, Walter White or Gus Fring?

14

The Melbourne-based Pettingill crime family partly inspired what American TV series based on an Australian film by the same name?

15

Ranked number 3 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s Greatest TV Villains of All Time, the mother of Tony Soprano has what given name?

TV Criminals

Modernish Art

From the 1900s to present.

16

Contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama is known for her lifelong fascination with what vegetable?

17

In Edward Hopper’s famous Nighthawks painting, how many figures can be seen inside the diner?

18

Known for his graffiti-like images and scrawled text, American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat rose to success in which decade - 1980s, 1990s or 2000s?

19

David Walsh, the owner of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), made his fortune as a professional what?

20

Place these modern art movements in order from earliest to latest: surrealism, minimalism, post-impressionism

Modernish Art

Birds of a Feather

Tell us the continent where these birds flock together.

21

Little woodpecker, Little thornbird, Little Inca-finch

22

Pied monarch, Pied honeyeater, Pied currawong

23

Cape parrot, Cape vulture, Cape rockjumper

24

Mountain quail, Mountain chickadee, Mountain bluebird

25

White-bellied heron, White-bellied treepie, White-bellied minivet

Birds of a Feather

Last Week's Scores

Top Scores

  • 20 Patsy, Hutch and Groodle
  • 25 Simone and
  • 21 Katie and Georgia
  • 23 Q&A
  • 20 Charlie, Chris and Sara
  • 20 GR
  • 21 The Fontanelles
  • 21 The Pack

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  • 15 Maia & Brock
  • 18 Cowboy Butter
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  • 15 Scott and Lucia
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16 points was last week's average score.

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