Australian Pop Culture Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which actress won an Academy Award for playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours, was once married to Tom Cruise, and appears in a cinema advertisement whose line about coming 'to this place for magic' became an internet meme?

Question 2

Which 1960s folk-pop group, featuring the voice of Judith Durham, became the first Australian act to achieve major record sales and chart success in Britain and the United States, with songs like Georgy Girl?

Question 3

Which group, made up of the brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, who were raised in Queensland, dominated the disco era with the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and songs like Stayin' Alive?

Question 4

In which 2000 film does Eric Bana, previously known as a sketch comedian, play the violent Melbourne criminal and self-mythologising author Mark Read?

Question 5

For which AC/DC song did the band film a 1976 video on the back of a flatbed truck driving down Swanston Street in Melbourne, with Bon Scott playing the bagpipes?

Question 6

Which pop-punk band from Sydney, often abbreviated to 5SOS, built an early following by posting cover songs on YouTube and went on to top the album chart in several countries?

Question 7

Which 2002 film, based on a book by Doris Pilkington Garimara, follows three Aboriginal girls who escape a settlement and walk hundreds of kilometres home along a fence, having been taken from their families?

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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.