The Point Weekend Quiz

1. This week, Anthony Albanese announced that AI agents from which company had hacked into Medicare data? For a bonus point, how was Australia informed of the hack? 

2. Why was Friday a public holiday in Victoria?

3. Last week, a tribute concert featuring Keith Urban, Jimmy Barnes and Celine Dion was held at Melbourne’s Rod Laver to honour the life and legacy of which Australian musician?

4. The unemployment rate has now reached 4.6%, its highest level since what year: A. 2020, B. 2021, C. 2022 or D. 2023?

5. Which Australian state has the largest coastal salt-water lake in the Southern Hemisphere?

6. What is the name of NASA’s new telescope that was launched into space at the end of August?

7. According to the latest Intergenerational Report, Australia will start to have more deaths than births in what decade: A. 2040’s, B. 2050’s, C. 2060’s, or D. 2070’s?

8. What battle between Harold Godwinson and Harald Hardrada took place 960 years ago on Friday, and traditionally marks the end of the “Viking age”?

9. The “Get Off My Chest” campaign has seen Fremantle Dockers fans calling for the logo of what fossil fuels company to be removed from the team’s guernseys? 

10. The Baikal seal, the only freshwater species of seal, is exclusively found on Lake Baikal in what country?

11. In a section of his UN General Assembly speech attacking New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Benjamin Netanyahu criticised his “friendship” with which American Twitch streamer?

12. Australia and what other country are currently the only candidates for the two “Western European and Others” UN Security Council seats, up for election in 2028: A. Finland, B. Austria, C. Germany or D. Spain?

13. Which British media personality is threatening to sue Charles Spencer and his publisher for inaccuracies in the memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister?

14. Acclaimed Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei’s ‘mushrooms’ piece, a 40-metre stretch of 500 identical cast iron sculptures of combat helmets, has been installed near the centre of which Australian capital city?

15. Name any two of the three countries that share Lake Victoria, one of the sources the Nile and the third-largest lake in the world.

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1. This week, Anthony Albanese announced that AI agents from which company had hacked into Medicare data? For a bonus point, how was Australia informed of the hack? (OpenAI) (Bonus: an email to the public inbox of Services Australia)

2. Why was Friday a public holiday in Victoria? (it was the eve of the AFL Grand Final)

3. Last week, a tribute concert featuring Keith Urban, Jimmy Barnes and Celine Dion was held at Melbourne’s Rod Laver to honour the life and legacy of which Australian musician? (John Farnham)

4. The unemployment rate has now reached 4.6%, its highest level since what year: A. 2020, B. 2021, C. 2022 or D. 2023? (B. 2021)

5. Which Australian state has the largest coastal salt-water lake in the Southern Hemisphere? (NSW, with Lake Macquarie)

6. What is the name of NASA’s new telescope that was launched into space at the end of August? (the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope)

7. According to the latest Intergenerational Report, Australia will start to have more deaths than births in what decade: A. 2040’s, B. 2050’s, C. 2060’s, or D. 2070’s? (C. 2060’s)

8. What battle between Harold Godwinson and Harald Hardrada took place 960 years ago on Friday, and traditionally marks the end of the “Viking age”? (The Battle of Stamford Bridge)

9. The “Get Off My Chest” campaign has seen Fremantle Dockers fans calling for the logo of what fossil fuels company to be removed from the team’s guernseys? (Woodside)

10. The Baikal seal, the only freshwater species of seal, is exclusively found on Lake Baikal in what country? (Russia)

11. In a section of his UN General Assembly speech attacking New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Benjamin Netanyahu criticised his “friendship” with which American Twitch streamer? (Hasan Piker)

12. Australia and what other country are currently the only candidates for the two “Western European and Others” UN Security Council seats, up for election in 2028: A. Finland, B. Austria, C. Germany or D. Spain? (A. Finland) 

13. Which British media personality is threatening to sue Charles Spencer and his publisher for inaccuracies in the memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister? (Piers Morgan)

14. Acclaimed Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei’s ‘mushrooms’ piece, a 40-metre stretch of 500 identical cast iron sculptures of combat helmets, has been installed near the centre of which Australian capital city? (Sydney)

15. Name any two of the three countries that share Lake Victoria, one of the sources the Nile and the third-largest lake in the world. (Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya)