Quiz: Dark

Bulletin of 30 October 2025

Australia’s first IDA International Dark Sky Park was officially designated in 2016. Where is it?
Answer
Warrumbungle National Park, NSW.
Complete the first stanza of this poem by CJ Dennis: “Hist, hark, the night is very dark…”
Answer
“And we've to go a mile or so across the Possum Park.”
What band wrote and recorded the single “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” in 2005?
Answer
Death Cab for Cutie (Ben Gibbard also accepted).
What are the larvae of darkling beetles commonly known as?
Answer
Mealworms.
In what year was Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu first published?
Answer
2014.

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