1. What famous Australian medical organisation has the initials RFDS?
2. What word is a New Zealand slang term for a part of the human body but in American English means a hobo?
3. What’s the difference between flotsam and jetsam?
4. What classic hit song of 1964 included the lines: “Then the music stopped, when I looked the café was empty”?
5. What British painter frequently used Californian swimming pools as a motif?
6. Which other US president was Lyndon Johnson referring to when he said, “He can’t fart and chew gum at the same time”?
7. What sweet French pastry has a name that translates as “a thousand sheets”?
8. Complete the following quotation from English writer Samuel Johnson: “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of …”
9. Karla is a recurring character in novels by which best-selling British writer?
10. In the biblical story of the Three Wise Men, which of the three was often depicted as black: Caspar, Melchior or Balthasar?
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ANSWERS: 1. The Royal Flying Doctor Service; 2. Bum; 3. Flotsam is floating wreckage, whereas jetsam has been washed up on shore; 4. Come a Little Bit Closer, by Jay and the Americans; 5. David Hockney; 6. Gerald Ford; 7. Mille-feuille; 8. Life; 9. John Le Carré; 10. Balthasar.
