S5 E9 - Justin and Hallie Go Down Under - a podcast by Quiz and Hers

This week, Hallie has one more chance to build up a lead before the end of the season, and Justin brings six bonzer trivia questions about the land down under, Australia. We talk Aussie current events, geography, art, and more!

3:29: Q1 (Everything Else): Since the end of John Howard’s term in December 2007, Australia has had five different prime ministers, none of whom has served a full three-year term, but one of whom served two nonconsecutive, partial terms.  Name any of them.

12:03: Q2 (Sports & Games): The Ashes is the unusual name of the biannual Test series played between Australia and England in what sport, which is rather obscure in the U.S., but very popular in the land down under, where it has been called the “national sport”?

24:03: Q3 (Sounds & Screen): What film franchise, created by Australian director George Miller and set in a post-apocalyptic Outback, saw Tom Hardy take over the title role from Mel Gibson in 2015?

35:12: Q4 (Arts & Literature): Named for a rural area outside of Melbourne, and sometimes called “Australian Impressionism”, what “School” of art flourished in the land down under in the late 19th century, and included artists like Arthur Streeton, Walter Withers, and Jane Sutherland?

41:15: Q5 (Times & Places): Named for the Spanish explorer who navigated it in 1606, what body of water, containing over 250 islands belonging to Australia, and mostly inhabited by an indigenous people named for it, is located between mainland Australia and New Guinea?

47:25: Q6 (Science): Now found only in one particular Australian state, what animal is the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world, and is widely threatened by a “facial tumor disease” unique to the species?

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