As some of the country’s greatest celebrities stepped the red rug at the G’Day USA Dark Tie Occasion at the Dolby Ball room in Los Angeles, we pushed them to a sport.
Answer an Australian-themed trivia query properly and they could proceed on their happy way. Get it incorrect and they had to down a spoonful of Vegemite.
Some of the celebrities, such as all-round awesome guy Jai Courtney and Jules Bishop, seemed truly pleased by the reality they got their concerns incorrect and broke spoonfuls of Vegemite with passion.
Others such as Joe Tennis and Crocodile Dundee celebrity David Hogan, well, they weren’t so eager.
Some of the other visitors who joined the case that honors well-known Australians for their participation to building up the US-Australia connection included: Qantas Ambassador-at-large David Travolta, Ben Mendelsohn, Baz Luhrmann, Daniel MacPherson, Henry Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, Nicole Kidman and Keith City.
Costume developer and four-time Oscar champion, Catherine Martin, obtained the G’Day USA Life-time Accomplishment Prize which was shown to her by her Moulin Vermeil friend, Nicole Kidman.
Ben Mendelsohn, who recently starred in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, was also honoured on the night, receiving the G’Day USA Excellence in Film and Television Award.
If you’d like to have stab the trivia yourself, here are the questions (the answers are further down below):
1. Which actress played the character, Muriel Heslop?
2. Strictly Ballroom came out in 1989, 1992 or 1994?
3. In The Castle, what is the first name of Darryl Kerrigan’s lawyer?
4. Which soap has been running longer, Home and Away or Neighbours?
5. Who won consecutive Gold Logies from 1997 to 2000?
6. Who was the Australian Prime Minister in 1992?
7. Nicole Kidman won an Oscar for her role in which 2002 movie?
8. How old is Bert Newton — 73, 75 or 78?
9. Who played Juliet in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet?
10. Which Scottish born Aussie rocker’s real name is James Dixon Swan?
11. How many Crocodile Dundee movies are there?
12. “Say hi to your mum for me” was a catchphrase made popular by which Aussie comedian and TV host?
13. Which singer won her first of four Grammy Awards in 1973 for her song, Let Me Be There?
14. Who won a Gold medal for Australia at the Sydney Olympics in the 400m run?
AND, HERE ARE THE ANSWERS
1. Which actress played the character, Muriel Heslop?
Toni Collette
2. Strictly Ballroom came out in 1989, 1992 or 1994?
1992
3. In The Castle, what is the first name of Darryl Kerrigan’s lawyer?
Dennis Denuto
4. Which soap has been running longer, Home and Away or Neighbours?
Neighbours
5. Who won consecutive Gold Logies from 1997 to 2000?
Lisa McCune
6. Who was the Australian Prime Minister in 1992?
Paul Keating
7. Nicole Kidman won an Oscar for her role in which 2002 movie?
The Hours
8. How old is Bert Newton — 73, 75 or 78?
78
9. Who played Juliet in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet?
Claire Danes
10. Which Scottish born Aussie rocker’s real name is James Dixon Swan?
Jimmy Barnes
11. How many Crocodile Dundee movies are there?
3
12. “Say hi to your mum for me” was a catchphrase made popular by which Aussie comedian and TV host?
Rove McManus
13. Which singer won her first of four Grammy Awards in 1973 for her song, Let Me Be There?
Olivia Newton John
14. Who won a Gold medal for Australia at the Sydney Olympics in the 400m run?
Cathy Freeman
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