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Where is the original Raffles hotel located? Click to reveal the answers.

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 594
I got 8/10!
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Name the seven-month-old macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo, outside Tokyo, who has found internet fame for his relationship with a stuffed orangutan toy from Ikea. Click the questions to reveal the answers.

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 590
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1979 IBM Training manual

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The Oil Factory

The Oil Factory

The Oil Factory: https://www.desparoz.com/the-oil-factory/

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Along with a population on Bald Island, quokkas are mostly found on which other Western Australian island? Click the questions to reveal the answers.

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 584
I got 8/10!
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Blue Angels Four

Blue Angels Four

Blue Angels Four: https://www.desparoz.com/blue-angels-four/

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Ballstadβ€”the adventure begins

Ballstadβ€”the adventure begins

Ballstadβ€”the adventure begins: https://www.desparoz.com/ballstad-the-adventure-begins/

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Loved @jmberger.com previous fiction book Optimal. Looking forward to the Pope’s Hitman.

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Failing to Imagine War and Tragedy in the Pacific Failure in war, how fiction can help build a better understanding of military failure and strategic tragedy, and a preview of the sequel to my 2023 novel, White Sun War.

My new article is now available. It explores failure in war, and how military fiction can help build a better understanding of military failure and strategic tragedy. It also includes a preview of the sequel to my 2023 novel, White Sun War.

mickryan.substack.com/p/failing-to...

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Rose Byrne stars in the Mary Bronstein film If I Had Legs I’d [what]? Click the questions to reveal the answers.

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 579
I got 7/10!
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

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Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search | Kagi Blog

I've been usingβ€”and lovingβ€”@kagi.com as my main search engine. This new feature should boost authentic content even more.

> Every piece of harmful AI-generated content you identify helps create a better, more trustworthy search experience for everyone.

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Which country lies geographically closest to Australia? Click to reveal the answers.

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 576
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In the film Finding Nemo, Dory is mainly what colour? Click the questions to reveal the answers.

Probably my best result yet

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 575
I got 9/10!
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A major change from Australians pretending to have even the slightest interest in baseball

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Happy Halloween πŸŽƒ

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A very informative course for laypeeps and practitioners

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Submission no. 500 at the Journal of Scandinavian Military Studies (SJMS) landed this morning!

We publish in the field of military studies: multidisciplinary, practice‑relevant, with Scandinavian roots and a global scope

All open access

Learn more about @sjms.bsky.social: sjms.nu/articles/10....

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Darwin Waterfront Panorama (aerial) default

A spectacular view of Darwin by Top End photographer Louise Denton. I spent a great (almost) two years living in Darwin, and it holds a special place for me!

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We just hit 1M+ daily queries on Kagi!

It might be a drop in the bucket by comparison, but with Kagi, each search is intentional, user-funded, free from ads and surveillance, and designed to serve you.

Thank you to our community. Here’s to many more milestones together.

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a woman is laughing with her eyes closed ALT: a woman is laughing with her eyes closed

Do I write a lot about military stuff? Yes.

Do I copyedit specialist military pieces for a living? Absolutely.

Can I spell manoeuvrability (much less maneuverability) without help? Absolutely not.

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What is both the name of the supermoon that falls closest to the September equinox and a 1992 studio album by Neil Young? Click the questions to reveal the answers.

Tough one today

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 571
I got 6/10!
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2025 Blood Moon For the week leading up to the 2025 blood moon on 8 September, we were teased with a combination of weather forecasts predicting alternately clear skies and an overcast, wet night. As it turned out we experienced an overcast evening, followed by a mostly clear night as the moon rose,

2025 Blood Moon

Composite image of the progression of the lunar eclipse on 8 Sept 2025, shot north of Canberra, Australia. Starting with the full mineral moon at top left, then progressing clockwise as the eclipse progressed, followed by the blood moon (centre).

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2025 Blood Moon

2025 Blood Moon

2025 Blood Moon: https://www.desparoz.com/2025-blood-moon/

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Australia issued its first polymer banknote in January 1988. What was the currency? Click the questions to reveal the answers.

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 570
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Screen shot from Creative Cloud describing LrC as Adobe’s β€˜legacy, desktop only’ app?

Screen shot from Creative Cloud describing LrC as Adobe’s β€˜legacy, desktop only’ app?

Is it just me, or is the word 'legacy' a recent change to the description of Lr Classic?

6 months ago 1 0 0 0
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Timothy Dalton stars as 007 in two James Bond films. Name either. Click to reveal the answers.

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 568
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True or false: red pandas are closely related to giant pandas. Click the questions to reveal the answers.

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 567
I got 7/10!

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The Great Victoria Desert spans parts of which two Australian states? Click the questions to reveal the answers.

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 566
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When straddling a valley, what is the difference between a viaduct and an aqueduct? Click to reveal the answers.

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 565
I got 7/10!

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