Australian Pop Culture Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which 1995 film, largely shot in the New South Wales town of Robertson, tells of a piglet raised by sheepdogs who learns to herd sheep, and ends with the line 'that'll do, pig'?

Question 2

Which panel show, hosted by Wil Anderson, dissects the tricks of advertising and marketing, with a segment called The Pitch in which agencies compete to sell the unsellable?

Question 3

Which hard rock band, formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young, released Back in Black, one of the best-selling albums in history?

Question 4

Which band, fronted by the charismatic Michael Hutchence until his death in 1997, had international hits with Need You Tonight and Never Tear Us Apart?

Question 5

Which 1975 Peter Weir film, based on a novel by Joan Lindsay, follows the unexplained disappearance of schoolgirls on a rock formation during an outing on Saint Valentine's Day, 1900?

Question 6

Which advertising jingle, first broadcast in 1954 for a yeast-extract spread and revived several times since, is one of the most recognised pieces of Australian marketing music?

Question 7

Which psychedelic project, essentially the one-man studio work of Perth's Kevin Parker, is behind the albums Lonerism and Currents and the track The Less I Know the Better?

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About Australian Pop Culture

How well do you know Australian pop culture -- the music, the movies, the television, and the celebrities, catchphrases and moments that Australians grew up with? This quiz has one hundred questions in four packs of twenty-five, written the way people search: which band released Back in Black, who played Sandy in Grease, what is the race that stops a nation, which soap opera launched Kylie Minogue, what is a drop bear.

The answer is always one of four choices of the same kind, and the question never gives it away. A short note after each answer adds the background -- a date, a name, a line, a story.

The first pack is music: AC/DC and INXS and Cold Chisel, Kylie Minogue and Olivia Newton-John and the Bee Gees, Men at Work's Down Under, Midnight Oil and Nick Cave, Silverchair and Tame Impala and Gotye and Sia, John Farnham's You're the Voice, The Wiggles, and the Triple J Hottest 100. The second pack is film: Crocodile Dundee and Mad Max, Priscilla and Muriel's Wedding and Strictly Ballroom, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli, The Castle and The Dish and Kenny, Rabbit-Proof Fence and Ten Canoes and Lion. The third pack is television: Neighbours and Home and Away, Kath & Kim and Round the Twist and Skippy, Play School and Bananas in Pyjamas, Blue Heelers and McLeod's Daughters, the Chaser's APEC stunt, MasterChef and The Block and Big Brother, and Bluey. The fourth pack is people and moments: Hugh Jackman, Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman, the Hemsworth brothers, Margot Robbie, Steve Irwin and Dame Edna, Tim Minchin and Hannah Gadsby, the Melbourne Cup and Cathy Freeman, the Aussie chant, the drop bear and the yowie, the 'where the bloody hell are you' ad, the Hills Hoist, Ned Kelly in art, and the word bogan.

About a sixth of the questions carry a photograph of a place or object tied to the question, chosen so it does not give the answer away. Every fact has been checked.