17-Feb-2022 Theme: 'Summer'

(1) What species is sometimes known in Tasmania as “The Summer Bird”?

Answer: Black-faced cuckoo shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae).

(2) How many days long are summers in Australia?

Answer: 90 (91 in a leap year).

(3) Fill in the missing word from this Jethro Tull lyric: “And the first … of summer / suicidal came”.

Answer: Moths.

(4) When is Midsummer’s Day on the Christian calendar?

Answer: 24 June.

(5) What was the title of the 1975 book which launched the public career of feminist writer Anne Summers? (bonus: Where was Summers born?).

Answer: ‘Damned Whores and God’s Police' (bonus: Deniliquin, NSW).

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