13-Oct-2022 Theme: 'Pong'

(1) What Australian capital city suffered for several months in 1997 from “the big pong”, which followed privatisation of wastewater treatment, and became a major political issue?

Answer: Adelaide.

(2) What game was supposedly invented by US university students in the 1950s, who were drinking whilst playing table tennis?

Answer: Beer pong.

(3) Pongo is the male protagonist of what Disney movie?

Answer: 101 Dalmatians.

(4) Pongo is the genus name of what animal?

Answer: Orangutan.

(5) Pong was arguably the world’s first commercially successful video game. It was first released by Atari (as an arcade version) in what year? (a) 1952 (b) 1962 (c) 1972 (d) 1982 (e) 1992?

Answer: (c) 1972.

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