1. Australian Muslims face tough penalties for travelling to Middle East war zones but gormless, unemployed and dumped Queensland LNP MP Wyatt Roy used a taxpayer-provided "resettlement allowance" to fund his personal fact-finding mission around Mosul. How much are we paying?
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(a) $100,000
(b) $150,000
(c) $60,000
2. China is proving a cornucopia for politicians both past and present. Who is director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology, Sydney?
(a) Andrew Robb
(b) Bob Carr
(c) Sam Dastyari
3. Who claimed a hospital in Wangaratta, Victoria, missed out on a $10 million grant because residents voted for an independent instead of the sitting Liberal?
(a) Kathy Jackson
(b) Sophie Mirabella
(c) Bronwyn Bishop
4. Who signed up with Pauline Hanson after being employed by Peter Slipper, the former Queensland National, Liberal and independent MHR who briefly ended up Speaker?
(a) James Ashby
(b) David Oldfield
(c) David Ettridge
5. Australia's first Governor-General, Lord Hopetoun, got the country off to a bad start by offering the NSW premier William Lyne the prime ministership. What went wrong?
(a) Lyne was anti-federation and lacked support of powerbrokers Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin.
(b) The influential Bulletin magazine described Lyne, "among the men who can claim by merit or accident, to be front-rank politicians of Australia, Lyne stands out conspicuously as almost the dullest and most ordinary".
(c) Lyne was unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and had to return his commission to Hopetoun.
6. Former policeman and Labor treasurer Jim Cairns cheerfully admitted an adulterous relationship with his staffer Junie Morosi shortly before his death. But years earlier when the media reported their relationship she won defamation claims worth:
(a) $1000
(b) $10,000
(c) $27,000
7. Which MP offered to resign as a minister when his wife appeared in advertisements selling printed sheets for Sheridan?
(a) Nick Greiner
(b) Andrew Peacock
(c) Don Dunstan
Police officers rush to seize Captain Francis De Groot.
8. Francis de Groot's cutting the ribbon at the Sydney Harbour Bridge opening in 1932 ensured the New Guard's place in popular history. But nine years earlier which visiting British writer perfectly captured the right-wing lurking in all Australians?
(a) D.H. Lawrence (Kangaroo)
(b) Somerset Maugham (The Moon and Sixpence)
(c) Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies)
9. David Coombe, once a tyro ALP national secretary turned Canberra lobbyist, was wined and dined by a Russian diplomat with links to the KGB, causing wholesale panic in the new Hawke government and intelligence community. The Russian was expelled. Who was he?
(a) Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(b) Vladimir Petrov
(c) Valery Ivanov
10. Among many careers before becoming Business Ombudsman, Kate Carnell was ACT Chief Minister when she resigned in 2000 before a vote of no confidence. What was the problem?
(a) She was criticised for turning the Royal Canberra Hospital's destruction into a public circus after a young girl was killed by flying debris.
(b) The $27.3 million budget for the Bruce Stadium blew out to $82 million.
(c) A pharmacist, Carnell's support for drug-law reform, heroin trial and safe injecting rooms were unpopular in Canberra.
11. Who did Kevin Rudd name Ambassador to Ireland and the Holy See?
(a) Amanda Vanstone
(b) Tim Fischer
(c) George Pell
12. What was Godwin Grech's claim to fame?
(a) English bass guitarist who formed 1960s supergroup Blind Faith with Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker before being elected to British Parliament
(b) Public servant who made a fool of gullible Malcolm Turnbull by giving him a bum steer on Kevin Rudd's 2007 campaign transport
(c) Ipswich used car dealer who joined One Nation
Answers: 1. (a), 2. (b), 3. (b), 4. (a), 5. (a), (b) and (c), 6. (c), 7. (b), 8. (a), 9. (c), 10. (b), 11 (b), 12 (b).