The Point Weekend Quiz

1. What year was the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, when police violently broke up a protest party on Oxford Street?

2. Independent Senator for the ACT David Pocock recently went viral after discussing how Australia’s beer tax raises more revenue than the super profits tax on what industry?

3. This weekend, Australia plays its first group stage match of the 2026 AFC Women’s Asian Cup. Who will the Matildas be up against: A. Japan, B. South Korea, C. Iran, or D. the Philippines?

4. What two families of Australian animals are the only living kinds of monotremes (egg-laying mammals)?

5. On the medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, Eric Dane played plastic surgeon Mark Sloan. Was his character nicknamed ‘McSteamy’ or ‘McDreamy’?

6. During the 2023 Women’s World Cup, a 20-year-old Greek fan sparked controversy by creating a chart modelled on TV show The L Word that mapped what about the players?

7. In the 1994 cult classic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, starring Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce, who or what is the titular ‘Priscilla’?

8. Which Australian state or territory will be the next to have an election, on 21 March? (South Australia)

9. International mining giant Alcoa was recently exposed for illegally clearing land in WA’s Northern Jarrah Forest, threatening what endangered bird?

10. Which of these is NOT a town in Western Australia: A. Denmark, B. Derby, C. Edinburgh or D. Leinster?

11.  What kind of fabric is made with the wet, needle, and carroting production methods?

12. Which state was the last to repeal the ‘gay panic’ murder defence in 2020? (where a violent crime is blamed on the victim provoking the perpetrator with a homosexual advance)

13. How did Prime Minister Anthony Albanese describe Grace Tame, advocate for survivors of sexual assault and 2021 Australian of the Year, at a News Corp event this week?

14. Why is the rarely blooming flower ‘titan arum’, native to Sumatra, nicknamed the “corpse flower”?

15. What type of swimwear got its name from the Pacific atoll where the United States conducted its first post-WWII nuclear tests?

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1. What year was the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, when police violently broke up a protest party on Oxford Street? (1978)

2. Independent Senator for the ACT David Pocock recently went viral after discussing how Australia’s beer tax raises more revenue than the super profits tax on what industry? (the gas industry)

3. This weekend, Australia plays its first group stage match of the 2026 AFC Women’s Asian Cup. Who will the Matildas be up against: A. Japan, B. South Korea, C. Iran, or D. the Philippines? (D. The Philippines)

4. What two families of Australian animals are the only living kinds of monotremes (egg-laying mammals)? (Echidnas and Platypuses, scientifically Tachyglossidae and Ornithorhynchidae)

5. On the medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, Eric Dane played plastic surgeon Mark Sloan. Was his character nicknamed ‘McSteamy’ or ‘McDreamy’? (McSteamy)

6. During the 2023 Women’s World Cup, a 20-year-old Greek fan sparked controversy by creating a chart modelled on TV show The L Word that mapped what about the players? (all of their intimate relationships)

7. In the 1994 cult classic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, starring Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce, who or what is the titular ‘Priscilla’? (the bus they use to travel to Alice Springs)

8. Which Australian state or territory will be the next to have an election, on 21 March? (South Australia)

9. International mining giant Alcoa was recently exposed for illegally clearing land in WA’s Northern Jarrah Forest, threatening what endangered bird? (Black Cockatoo, specifically White-Tailed)

10. Which of these is NOT a town in Western Australia: A. Denmark, B. Derby, C. Edinburgh or D. Leinster? (C. Edinburgh)

11. What kind of fabric is made with the wet, needle, and carroting production methods? (felt)

12. Which state was the last to repeal the ‘gay panic’ murder defence in 2020? (where a violent crime is blamed on the victim provoking the perpetrator with a homosexual advance) (South Australia)

13. How did Prime Minister Anthony Albanese describe Grace Tame, advocate for survivors of sexual assault and 2021 Australian of the Year, at a News Corp event this week? (‘difficult’, which Tame labelled as “misogynist’s code for a woman who won’t comply”)

14. Why is the rarely blooming flower ‘titan arum’, native to Sumatra, nicknamed the “corpse flower”? (it gives off a smell of rotting flesh when it blooms)

15. What type of swimwear got its name from the Pacific atoll where the United States conducted its first post-WWII nuclear tests? (The Bikini)