The Point Weekend Quiz

1. Who is the new premier of Victoria, who replaced Jacinta Allan after a leadership spill on Tuesday? 

2. Which billionaire labelled the Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes a “traitor to the west” after she interviewed him this week? 

3. The only venomous lizard native to the United States of America is named the Gila what?  

4. Which oil and gas company reported $6 billion in revenue over the past three months, leading some media outlets to label it “one of Australia’s biggest winners” from war in the middle east?  

5. What announcement from FIFA president Gianni Infantino prompted the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to threaten a boycott of all FIFA competitions, including the World Cup?  

6. Tony, starring Dominic Sessa and Antonio Banderas, is a 2026 biopic about which celebrity chef?  

7. Which Northern Territory Labor MP has been charged with assaulting controversial NT Administrator David Connolly? 

8. What word can refer to a calcium compound used in agriculture, a kind of white stone, and a variety of citrus fruit?  

9. Which classicist, whose translation of the Odyssey inspired Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation, said she would have been “ashamed to have written any part of [the film’s] script”?  

10. Under the codename ‘Project Panama’ why has one of the world’s most valuable companies been scanning, then destroying, millions of books? 

11. Litmus, a mixture of different dyes extracted from lichens, turns what colour when exposed to acids? 

12. What country officially changed its name this week? Bonus point for knowing what the new name is.  

13. The NSW Premier Chris Minns ruled out selling carbon credits from the Great Koala National Park to which companies: A. coal and gas, B. foreign-owned, or C. small businesses?  

14. The Bernadotte dynasty, descended from Napoleonic French general Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, still rules which European country? 

15. What New Zealand reptile, despite closely resembling lizards, is instead the only living Rhynchocephalian, an order of reptiles that diverged from lizards 240 million years ago?  

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1. Who is the new premier of Victoria, who replaced Jacinta Allan after a leadership spill on Tuesday? (Ben Carroll) 

2. Which billionaire labelled the Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes a “traitor to the west” after she interviewed him this week? (Elon Musk) 

3. The only venomous lizard native to the United States of America is named the Gila what? (Gila monster) 

4. Which oil and gas company reported $6 billion in revenue over the past three months, leading some media outlets to label it “one of Australia’s biggest winners” from war in the middle east? (Woodside) 

5. What announcement from FIFA president Gianni Infantino prompted the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to threaten a boycott of all FIFA competitions, including the World Cup? (Infantino’s plans to sell part-ownership of FIFA competitions to private investors) 

6. Tony, starring Dominic Sessa and Antonio Banderas, is a 2026 biopic about which celebrity chef? (Anthony Bourdain) 

7. Which Northern Territory Labor MP has been charged with assaulting controversial NT Administrator David Connolly? (Luke Gosling) 

8. What word can refer to a calcium compound used in agriculture, a kind of white stone, and a variety of citrus fruit? (Lime) 

9. Which classicist, whose translation of the Odyssey inspired Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation, said she would have been “ashamed to have written any part of [the film’s] script”? (Emily Wilson) 

10. Under the codename ‘Project Panama’ why has one of the world’s most valuable companies been scanning, then destroying, millions of books? (To train AIs: specifically, Anthropic’s large-language models) 

11. Litmus, a mixture of different dyes extracted from lichens, turns what colour when exposed to acids? (Red) 

12. What country officially changed its name this week? Bonus point for knowing what the new name is. (Nauru, which changed its name to Naoero) 

13. The NSW Premier Chris Minns ruled out selling carbon credits from the Great Koala National Park to which companies: A. coal and gas, B. foreign-owned, or C. small businesses? (A. coal and gas) 

14. The Bernadotte dynasty, descended from Napoleonic French general Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, still rules which European country? (Sweden) 

15. What New Zealand reptile, despite closely resembling lizards, is instead the only living Rhynchocephalian, an order of reptiles that diverged from lizards 240 million years ago? (The Tuatara, which means “peaks on the back” in te reo Māori)