GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1. How many planets are in the Solar System?
2. Who writes the Harry Potter series of novels?
3. What was the name of Australia’s first America’s Cup contender?
4. What is the name of Elvis Presley’s mansion?
5. How many senators are in the Australian senate?
6. Where does the 1943 film Casablanca take place?
7. How old was famous detective writer Raymond Chandler when his first novel, The Big Sleep, was published?
8. Which Australian light cruiser was sunk on March 1, 1942, by the Japanese in the Battle of the Sunda Strait?
9. In golf, what is an Albatross?
10. What were the first names of Napoleon’s two wives?




ANSWERS
1. 8 (Pluto is no longer a planet).
2. J.K. Rowling.
3. Gretel.
4. Gracelands.
5. 76.
6. Morocco.
7. 50.
8. HMAS Perth
9. 3 under par
10. Josephine and Marie.