Shannon's Not So Trivial Trivia

Which of these countries does NOT share the same name as their capital?

What year did the AFLs/VFLs inaugural season start?

What should duct tape NOT be used to repair?

Who invented the worlds first seismoscope?

Which of these philosophers after being ordered to die by Nero, drank poison?

How long is the shortest recorded war?

How old is the currently known oldest recorded "your mum" joke?

On what date did the first fleet arrive in Botany Bay?

Currently which is the worlds fastest continent?

How does Odysseus escape from Polyphemus the cyclops?

Which song popularised gated reverb drums for the 80s?

Of these artists which has had the longest musical career based on chart hits?

Why did Ernest Hemingway once steal a urinal from a bar?

The Aztec sport tlachtli is similar to which modern day sport?

Ivan Pavlov carried out

Which of these has NOT got a top 40 hit every decade since the 80s?

What is the root of suffering?

What process causes a decomposing corpse to lose internal heat?

Who painted this famous painting of Vincent Van Gogh?

Who invented the first electronic computer machine in 1822?

According to the UN, how many countries are there in the world?

How did boxing gloves change boxing?

Who is the only scientist to have won both an Ig Nobel Prize and a Nobel Prize?

Where is the worlds largest wine cellar?

Which of these is NOT based on a true story?

What was the first combustion engine powered by? 

If a million seconds is 11.5 days how long is a billion seconds?

In the original story of Aladdin what nationality was he?

What percentage of the media in Australia is NOT owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp or Nine Entertainment?

According to Pliny the Elder, how did Zeuxis lose a painting contest against Parrhasius?

Duchamp, Dali, Tzara can be associated with which artistic movement?

Which of these is NOT a part of the brain?

Which of these is NOT based on a Shakespeare play?

How was the story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley conceived?