Australian Pop Culture Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which sporting event, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground before a crowd of about 100,000 and preceded by a public holiday in Victoria, decides the premiership of the Australian Football League?

Question 2

Which long-running police drama, set at a country station in the fictional town of Mount Thomas, made a star of Lisa McCune as Constable Maggie Doyle?

Question 3

Which 2018 stand-up special by Hannah Gadsby, filmed at the Sydney Opera House and released on Netflix, sparked worldwide debate by questioning the mechanics of comedy itself?

Question 4

In which 1981 Peter Weir film do two young sprinters from Western Australia enlist in the First World War and are sent to the Dardanelles, where one is cut down in a doomed charge?

Question 5

Which children's show features two identical characters, known as B1 and B2, who wear striped pyjamas and often ask each other 'are you thinking what I'm thinking'?

Question 6

Which hard rock band, formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young, released Back in Black, one of the best-selling albums in history?

Question 7

In which film, first made in 1976 from a novel by Colin Thiele and remade in 2019, does a lonely boy on the South Australian coast raise an orphaned pelican named Mr Percival?

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About Australian Pop Culture

How well do you know Australian pop culture -- the music, the movies, the television, and the celebrities, catchphrases and moments that Australians grew up with? This quiz has one hundred questions in four packs of twenty-five, written the way people search: which band released Back in Black, who played Sandy in Grease, what is the race that stops a nation, which soap opera launched Kylie Minogue, what is a drop bear.

The answer is always one of four choices of the same kind, and the question never gives it away. A short note after each answer adds the background -- a date, a name, a line, a story.

The first pack is music: AC/DC and INXS and Cold Chisel, Kylie Minogue and Olivia Newton-John and the Bee Gees, Men at Work's Down Under, Midnight Oil and Nick Cave, Silverchair and Tame Impala and Gotye and Sia, John Farnham's You're the Voice, The Wiggles, and the Triple J Hottest 100. The second pack is film: Crocodile Dundee and Mad Max, Priscilla and Muriel's Wedding and Strictly Ballroom, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli, The Castle and The Dish and Kenny, Rabbit-Proof Fence and Ten Canoes and Lion. The third pack is television: Neighbours and Home and Away, Kath & Kim and Round the Twist and Skippy, Play School and Bananas in Pyjamas, Blue Heelers and McLeod's Daughters, the Chaser's APEC stunt, MasterChef and The Block and Big Brother, and Bluey. The fourth pack is people and moments: Hugh Jackman, Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman, the Hemsworth brothers, Margot Robbie, Steve Irwin and Dame Edna, Tim Minchin and Hannah Gadsby, the Melbourne Cup and Cathy Freeman, the Aussie chant, the drop bear and the yowie, the 'where the bloody hell are you' ad, the Hills Hoist, Ned Kelly in art, and the word bogan.

About a sixth of the questions carry a photograph of a place or object tied to the question, chosen so it does not give the answer away. Every fact has been checked.