The Point Weekend Quiz

1. Which country won the gold medal for netball at this year’s Commonwealth Games?  

2. The 2026 Australian Census will take place on what day next week?  

3. A stray piece of which company’s rocket collided with the moon this week?  

4. The Deputy Mayor of which Australian capital city is the subject of “snack gate”, with some councillors calling for a criminal investigation and her resignation over having taken snacks and drinks from a council lounge?  

5. Future Wiggles members Anthon Field and Jeff Fatt were members of what pub rock band in the 1980s?  

6. Which former Lord of the Rings star is the current president of SAG-AFTRA, the union representing actors, artists, stunt performers and other media professionals in the United States?  

7. Which gas company is being prosecuted by the Northern Territory EPA for under-reporting emissions from its operations on Darwin Harbour?  

8. When MTV launched in 1981, it opened with the music video for which British new wave pop song?  

9. This week, Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive running on a healthcare centred platform, won the Democratic primary for US Senate in which American state?  

10. Who won the 2026 Miles Franklin Award for his novel Fierceland?  

11. What is the most recent country to gain internationally recognised independence, in 2011?  

12. In biology, sort the following categories of life from most general to most specific: kingdom, species, order, phylum.  

13. Cerulean, royal and cobalt are shades of which colour?  

14. Who composed the music for both 2008’s Kung Fu Panda and 2014’s Interstellar?  

15. The CJP, a youth-based satirical protest movement in India, is named after what insect?  

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1. Which country won the gold medal for netball at this year’s Commonwealth Games? (New Zealand) 

2. The 2026 Australian Census will take place on what day next week? (Tuesday August 11th) 

3. A stray piece of which company’s rocket collided with the moon this week? (SpaceX) 

4. The Deputy Mayor of which Australian capital city is the subject of “snack gate”, with some councillors calling for a criminal investigation and her resignation over having taken snacks and drinks from a council lounge? (Hobart: Deputy Mayor Zelinda Sherlock has apologised for taking the snacks and has been cleared of misconduct by the Tasmanian Integrity Commission)  

5. Future Wiggles members Anthon Field and Jeff Fatt were members of what pub rock band in the 1980s? (The Cockroaches) 

6. Which former Lord of the Rings star is the current president of SAG-AFTRA, the union representing actors, artists, stunt performers and other media professionals in the United States? (Sean Astin) 

7. Which gas company is being prosecuted by the Northern Territory EPA for under-reporting emissions from its operations on Darwin Harbour? (INPEX: for under-reporting emissions from its Ichthys LNG facility between 2019 and 2024) 

8. When MTV launched in 1981, it opened with the music video for which British new wave pop song? (Video Killed the Radio Star, by the Buggles) 

9. This week, Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive running on a healthcare centred platform, won the Democratic primary for US Senate in which American state? (Michigan) 

10. Who won the 2026 Miles Franklin Award for his novel Fierceland? (Omar Musa) 

11. What is the most recent country to gain internationally recognised independence, in 2011? (South Sudan) 

12. In biology, sort the following categories of life from most general to most specific: kingdom, species, order, phylum. (Kingdom, phylum, order, species) 

13. Cerulean, royal and cobalt are shades of which colour? (Blue) 

14. Who composed the music for both 2008’s Kung Fu Panda and 2014’s Interstellar? (German film composer Hans Zimmer) 

15. The CJP, a youth-based satirical protest movement in India, is named after what insect? (Cockroach: CJP stands for Cockroach Janata Party)