Chris Taylor and Andrew Hansen have a long history of creating comedy and satire for the ABC. Happily, that association is set to continue with their upcoming series ‘Australian Epic’. The 6-part extravaganza that takes some of the country’s most colourful true stories, and turns them into musicals. From Steve Bradbury’s unlikely gold medal on ice, to Johnny Depp’s illegal importation of his dogs, Pistol and Boo. 

But do they know which country had the world's first female prime minister?

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Two former wizards on the podcast today.

Gillian Cosgriff and David Simes.

Gillian the queen of quizzes and former guest.

David Simes. Hater of all things quiz related and podcasts.

Listen to see how this goes down.

Go See 'Actually, Good' - Gillian's 'Best Show' Award winning show.

Find dates at her instagram @gilliancosgriff

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Melbourne Theatre Company's most recent play 'My Sister Jill' stars this weeks guests.

Lucy Goleby and James O'Connell have worked together on many projects. Can they work together to answer Cindy's 10 questions. Listen and find out!

'My Sister Jill' is playing at the Sumner Theatre for one more week.

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Two of the most intelligent humans you'll ever stumble across.

Hannah currently out with her first book "I'll Let Myself In"

Kartanya currently starring in ABC's The Messenger and Gold Diggers and Prime Video's Deadloch.

Both know many random facts, do they know the answers to this weeks quiz?

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Thank God They're Here. When Kat Stewart and Heidi Arena are not working in critically acclaimed screen and stage they're here on The Saturday Quiz.

They've have worked together many times. Can they team up to answer all this week's questions?

Watch Kat in 'One Night' streaming on Paramount+.

Find Heidi in 'Thank God You're Here' on Tenplay.

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It's the 150th anniversary special. Today we are spinning the podcast on its head. I am the guest and actor William McKenna is the host.

How good is my general knowledge? Well, we're about to find out.

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Anthony Gooley and Adele Querol appear as William Shakespeare and Emilia Lanyer in the world premiere of the play “Venus and Adonis”. Presented by Sport For Jove theatre company and written and directed by Damien Ryan, the play tells the story of Shakespeare and his possible love affair with - and potential artistic theft from - the first English female poet ever published Emilia Lanyer.

But how is their general knowledge?

https://www.seymourcentre.com/event/venus-and-adonis/

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Julia Zemiro and Kitty Flanagan are two of the funniest women you could ever hope to meet. They both star in the world’s funniest tv show about probate law: Fisk, which you can watch on either ABC iView in Australia or on Netflix around the world. Julia is also the host of Great Australian Walks with Julia Zemiro on SBS and Kitty is the Author of 488 Rules for Life, which you can listen to on the ABC Listen App.

Watch Julia walk around the country here:

https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/great-australian-walks-with-julia-zemiro/season-1

Watch Fisk here:

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/fisk

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Last time they were on this podcast together, Justin Smith and Matthew Whittet were supposed to be promoting the world premiere of The Dismissal - a musical about the constitutional crisis of 1975 that led to the controversial removal of prime minister Gough Whitlam. But unfortunately because of the pandemic, that season was canceled. This time however, the show has opened, it’s on and getting rave reviews and you can get your tickets to see it at the York Theatre in the Seymour Centre here:

https://www.thedismissal.com

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Alex Lee and Cameron James are no strangers to tricky questions. They are both ensemble members of a brand new tv show WTFAQ - The Wednesday night ABC comedy attempts to answer the questions sent in by audience members that range from “Do you need to keep tomato sauce in the fridge?” to “What came first, the chicken or the egg?”

But how do they go with the questions from this week's quiz?

Watch WTFAQ on iView now:

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/wtfaq

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