General Knowledge
1. Who is the deputy prime minister of New Zealand?
2. What submarine first reached the North Pole and when.
3. What is the 0-100 km/h time for a Swedish Koenigsegg CCR super car?
4. Who will captain the Wallabies in this year’s Rugby World Cup?
5. To whom did Wellington remark that his own troops frightened him?
6. Which Japanese midget submariner’s younger brother was in Sydney recently for his memorial service?
7. What is a Phalanx?
8. What happens when Champagne is disgorged?
9. Which is the only country whose name begins with O?
10. What is the British Turing Bombe?
ANSWERS
1. Dr Michael Cullen
2. USS Nautilus on August 3, 1958
3. 3.2 seconds
4. Stirling Mortlock
5. Marshal Blucher
6. SBLT Bann
7. A solid column of foot soldiers, especially when armed with pikes
8. Frozen yeast sediment is expelled from the neck
9. Oman
10. A computer-like precursor which helped crack the Nazi Enigma codes