This is a team quiz from the Australian Players about some of our most treasured Australian movies. We all hope you enjoy the quiz as we enjoyed watching the movies.
Unbelievably, this is the first beach volleyball quiz on Fun Trivia. This is one of the most popular Olympic sports. Come take a trip with me how the introduction of sun, sand and sweat changes the very nature of volleyball for the better.
On the Quiz Authoring Board, we were discussing tacos and somehow triffids & then Bhutan got mixed in. Someone said it wasn't possible to write a quiz about all three. Negative reinforcement is a powerful motivator...
In a male-dominated world, these ten women rebelled against gender inequality and demanded to be heard. Here are their stories.
(This is an author challenge where a specific David Bowie title has to be used for an alternative subject).
TOUGH Quiz ahead. In this simple match quiz, the requirement was to write a "Red" quiz. Don't need much motivation to marry that with my favourite topic. WARNING - All artists are well known but the songs, well...Match song to artist.
Your task is to find the hidden creature in the following ten sentences. The creature can be a bird, fish or animal. The rest of the sentence will tell you what type of creature to look for plus each sentence contains another similar creature.
As humans, we have five highly developed senses. But some animals have better senses than us mere humans. Come inside and find out. This is an Author Commission.
Given the title I was handed in this Commission 50 quiz, it seemed logical to write a quiz on the U.S. 50th state where you get a 50/50 chance of getting the answer right. Yes? No?. Because this is a quick quiz, you get 5 bonus questions...
There are cynics who think that everything in the world comes down to money, sex or power. If this were true, if you think about it, then money and sex are all about power as well. No wonder power is a popular theme across the entertainment spectrum.
You are given two clues. The first defines a three letter word. Then add "SP" to the front of the first word to give a new five letter word to match the definition given by the second clue. ALL answers are FITB. (SP)ready?
I have a week off. I am at Singapore Airport. I look up at the departures board. I can go any where in the world. I am hungry so I will fly the long way around - close to the equator, and try the all the local cuisines at places where I stop.
Formed in the mid-70s, the Little River Band were one of the most popular Australian rock bands of the 20th century and one of the first Australian Bands to be successful in the US.
Some of our most famous Australians are featured on our currency. When Australia was the first country to introduce notes made from polymers, it was a chance to showcase another collective of noteworthy Australians. Good Luck!
An anachronism is an object misplaced in time. In movies especially, it is distracting to see an object in a movie that has not been invented yet. For example a gladiator wearing a watch. This quiz is about movie anachronisms.
If you couple the letter P with each of the first ten letters of the alphabet, you have ten abbreviations which all mean something much bigger than their respective abbreviation. This is a general quiz from PA to PJ.
Countries are divided into smaller administrative regions. This quiz explores their world-wide diversity. Oh, by the way FT Executive advise they are running out of server space so all quiz answers must now omit vowels. GD LCK!
The pig is one of man's major achievements in the domestication of animals. However the nomenclature of pigs is numerous, at times duplicative and sometimes ambiguous. This quiz attempts to address this particular issue.
Many people think of the country of Australia being one big island often forgetting about island State of Tasmania. However, Australia has over 8200 islands incorporated into its land mass. This quiz is about twelve of those.
Many countries define their national identity with the colours of their flags. Other add symbols to describe their identity. This quiz examines those flags with common symbols. This is a TOUGH quiz.
This is a Foolish, Massive Christmas Undertaking Challenge. Swans are graceful waterbirds that attract admirers from around the world. Here are a few connections to swans but not necessarily to the waterbird itself...
Here are ten European capitals minus their vowels. Just insert the correct vowels to make the correct city. (e.g. PRS becomes PARIS). Then determine of which country that city is the capital. In this example the correct answer would be FRANCE.
Each question is an Australian history question from each decade of the 20th century. Additionally each question is prefaced by other significant events or people for that decade. See if you can determine why they have been included as well. Good luck.
Australia is a big country with few people. In pre-history there were no people but as a place and a country, the population has increased through intervention, especially immigration. At some point it seemed like everybody was "Going to Australia".
Many of the world's major cities were built near freshwater necessary for drinking water, food supply, crop irrigation, and transport. Is it any wonder so many river settlements became capital cities? This quiz is about capital cities on rivers.
Darwin is Australia's most northerly city. Its geographical position makes it unique in climate, lifestyle and proximity to South East Asia. Take a tour of one of Australia's most vibrant cities...
Not so much about landmarks but where in the world did some of the Phoenix Rising team come from? All over the world - That's where. Let's go globetrotting...
The best Australian nicknames have some sort of wit or irony about them. Some are sarcastic. It's hard to tell the difference sometimes but it doesn't matter as an Australian nickname is always endearing and a measure of acceptance.
You have two tasks: first determine the date described then work out which artefacts could not possibly be used at that particular time. These are anachronisms. An example would be the Pharoah's sunglasses.
In this Robin Williams' Challenge, one of his movie titles is "Man of the Year". Applying this to the annual "Time" magazine event, please determine who the correct person(s) that fit the criteria. They are not all men!
In this Author Challenge / Challenge Categories 3, we explore the Darién Gap which is is a little known anomaly in the modern geography of Central and South America.
Video games started HERE. This is the video game "Pong". This modest video game started the arcade game craze which in turn started the video game industry. This is how it all began...
We know we revere animals when we start attributing human features to them. Owls are often portrayed as wise and intelligent. This Author Challenge quiz explores how owls have superbly adapted to their environment.
Dela-Where screamed the Author Challenge! This US state may be small but it's not that small and there's a lot happening in the First State. I also wanted to dispel the notion that the major centres are named after other US cities. Let's have a look.
Great to see the main actors in "Terminator: Dark Fate" were all women. They pitted their wits against bio-metallic monsters called Terminators in the next series installment. Contains SPOILERS. Please see the movie first.
After a brilliant debut album in 1978, Dire Straits fared poorly with their second album. In 1980, Dire Straits came roaring back with the brilliant "Making Movies", announcing themselves as a new global force in rock music.
In 1978 I was given "Saturday Night Fever" for my 17th birthday. Never played it. Disco is not Rock. Put it on my bucket list. Turned 60 this week: bucket list comes into play. Saw a FT challenge - Review an unplayed album. Now it becomes "How inviting!"
Australia, politically and nationally, is a new country on the world stage but its cultural history goes back approximately 40 000 years. How do you select a few questions to reflect our heritage? Just look at our "colourful" money!
For Commission XXVII, each player was allocated a title, devised by someone else, where a body part had to be hidden in the title. The quiz could be on any topic. Therefore ten body parts with only three letters are hidden in ten brainteasing questions.
Before our ancestors, the apes and the reptiles there were the jellyfish. Before anyone can say we have nothing in common with such creatures, let's reserve our judgement until we complete the quiz. OK?
It's fair to say that many baby boomers have seen the 1975 movie "Jaws". How many have actually read Peter Benchley's book from which the movie screenplay was adapted? Increase your geekiness and catch the movie-only people out with this quiz.
A function is being held at a large city bar. Any woman who has a name connected to a Beatles' song is invited: Living, dead, fictitious - all welcome. Let's see who came to the party...
"New" places are sometimes named after "old" places and become more prominent than their namesakes. Here are a ten questions about linked paired cities of the world.
Writing a mixed quiz, what better way to have a mixture of people than making the quiz a "Survivor" theme. Let's meet our diverse Fun Trivia contestants...
(This is an Adventures in Authoring Quiz).
The magic of books, movies, television shows and even history, is that they can transport us to places that don't exist. Or do they? Here are ten examples of postcards from places that do not exist or, if they do, they are somewhere else.