MUCLASS 2024 Set G (Played)

Which movie was about the story of pacifist medic Desmond Doss who won the Medal of Honor during the Battle of Okinawa?

Which of the following is not a police show?

Which artist painted “The Starry Night” and “Cafe Terrace at Night” in the 1880s?

What is the largest planet in the solar system, including the moons Ganymede and Europa?

In the Peanuts cartoon, what supernatural being does Linus believe in

What is the name of Hade’s son, who appears in the rogue-like videogame Hades?

Woman King (2022) follows warrior women from which African kingdom?

Which Australian animal has an island named after them in South Australia?

Involving the largest slave rebellion since Spartacus, which island colony had a revolution between 1791-1804?

What civilization is credited with making the first star maps for astronomy around 1000 BCE?

The Bridge over the River Kwai (1957) was set in which country, with prisoners of war building a railway?

While Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre among others, what was Emily Bronte’s only novel in 1847?

In the beginning of The Good Place, nearly every street corner has a what type of shop?

What song did Scott Morrison play on the Ukulele on 60 Minutes leading up to the 2022 election?

Which ruler of Halicarnassus allied with the Persians during their invasion of Greece?

A mission in videogame Halo: Combat Evolved (2001) is called "The Silent …" what?

What search engine is dedicated to planting trees?

For which 2002 movie did Indigenous actor David Gulpilil receive his first AACTA Award for Best Actor?

What party was Ricky Muir from during his surprising election to the Senate in 2013?

Which is not one of the bodies of water around Australia?

Who is not one of the 3 Fates, or Moirai, in Greek mythology?

Which Pixar movie includes an aspiring pianist named Joe Gardner?

What is the name of the red engine in Thomas the Tank Engine?

What was not one of the languages on the Rosetta Stone?

Which of the Olympians competed with Athena to be a patron of Athens (and lost)?

Ruling around 1000-250BCE, what was the longest lasting dynasty in Chinese history?

No Man is an Island (1624), including the line “for whom the bell tolls,” was written by which poet?

The Arab Spring protests started in which country, sparked by the self-immolation of a fruit vendor?

What landlocked African country was a colony of France known as Upper Volta, renaming a few years after independence?

In The Simpsons, what was the cause of Maude Flander’s death (with some involvement from Homer Simpson)?

Which is not one of the inventions from China?

What element, when compressed very hard, becomes diamonds?

Which ancient author died investigating the eruption of Vesuvius?

”I’ll make a man out of you” and “Reflection” are songs from which 1998 Disney movie?

In the 1st episode of Martin Morning (2002), what does he turn into?

What show was released in 2024 (created by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks)?

"One Night in Bangkok" and "The Russian and Molokov" are songs from which musical?

Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was located in mainland Greece?

Which show includes the lines “Release the dragon” and “You control that dragon, you control the world”?

What game includes the fictional besieged city of Pogoren in Graznavia?

From which country comes kids shows “Degrassi” and “The Magic School Bus”?

What is the name of the new Indonesian capital being constructed in Borneo?

What movie filmed in the same school (Glenbrook High) as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (released about a year apart)?

For which subject did the members of Community (2009-2015) form a study group in the opening episode?

What UNESCO recognised monument in Egypt had to be moved piece-by-piece in 1967 because of the Aswan Dam?

For Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), where was the desert planet Tatooine filmed on Earth?

What is known as the “King of the Dinosaurs”?

What is not generally considered one of the "cradles of civilisation"?

Who was this independent MP that won Malcolm Turnbull’s seat of Wentworth after his departure (in 2018)?

The ancient Egyptian word for Egypt, Kemet, means what?

Which of these was released earliest, in 2005 by Disney, set in the town of Oaky Oaks?

What character does Alec Guinness play in the original 1977 Star Wars movie?

Just before the Battle of Hastings in 1066, King Harold Godwinson fought Viking Hadrada in “The Battle of …” what?

The Union of Lublin in 1526 joined the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of ... what together?

Elizabeth Taylor played which ancient figure in the titular 1963 movie?

Unification Day, reuniting West Germany and East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, was in which year?

The Jewish festival of Hanukkah celebrates the revolt of the Maccabees against which empire around 150BCE?

Which desert is part of southern Mongolia and northern China?

What is the name of the US miltiary headquarters, after the shape of the building?

Who is the current Vice President of the United States?

What Australian comedy includes several scenes on the University of Melbourne campus?

Who was not one of the people in the 3-way-duel in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)?

Completed in 2023, the biggest archaeological museum in the world is the “Grand … Museum”?

Who was the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, deposed by Odoacer in CE 476?

What is not one of the battles fought by Alexander the Great during his campaigns?

What is not one of the statues located outside the State Library of Victoria?

What occupation does Zooey Deschanel’s character Jessica Day have in New Girl?

Which occupation had a strike at the University of Melbourne in 1856, gaining the 8 Hour Day?

In which videogame do guards commonly lament, “I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee”?

Which country's Parliament is known as the Assembly of All, or Althing?

A blue line over a yellow line (as pictured) is the national flag of which country?

Out of these milestone events in Indigenous history, what was the latest to occur in 1985?

Lily Gladstone, the only Native American actor to receive an Oscar nomination, did so for which film?

Which Australian geologist and paleontologist was the first female Professor in Australian history in 1960?

What was one of the elite Aztec warrior groups?

Who expanded Rome to its greatest extent, and had a forum in Rome named after them?

A law in 1842 was meant to protect which tree, for being culturally significant for Indigenous nations in NSW?

Beyond Hadrians Wall was a (briefly used) wall named what?

Alick Wickham, from the Solomon Islands, achieved which feat in 1918?

In the Mortal Engines book series, what is the term for mobile cities swallowing up smaller settlements?

Who founded the organisation Climate 200 to support independent candidates and wrote "The Big Teal" (2022)?

What is the name for our galaxy?

Taika Waititi’s Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay was for which 2020 film?

By 2001, with the release of the first Harry Potter movie, what was the latest book published already?

Which was the largest modern oil spill caused by a company, in 2010, inspiring the Deepwater Horizon movie?

In which comedy series are the bureaucrats of the fictional Nation Building Authority (NBA) featured?

Which South American civilisation was known for the “quipu,” a system of keeping information through strings and knots?

Which young adult series includes an organisation called WICKED seeking a cure to the “Flare” disease?

What is one of the capitals of South Africa?

Out of these women (all featured in Australian currency), what social reformer and Parliamentarian is on the $50 note?

What Egyptian god or goddess ate the hearts of the deceased that were heavier than the feather of truth?

What fictional criminal does Toby obsess over (and become a jury member for) in The Office?

Which music artist included use of the didgeridoo in their album The Dreaming, after a holiday in Australia in 1982?

What is the closest country to Antarctica?

In the movie Seventh Seal (1957), what does the knight Antonius Block do with Death?

Which Australian Indigenous music artist wrote Took the Children Away (1990) about the Stolen Generations?

Which Australian state had an Upper House before it voted itself out of existence in 1921?

Ichthyology is the study of what?

What was the Roman god of the forge, believed to reside under Mt Etna?

What food came to Europe from South America during the Columbian exchange of the 1500s onwards?