The Melbourne International Film Festival has just opened, so on this episode, John is joined by two people who have a show in the festival. Stef Smith is the director and Ana Maria Belo is the lead in the Australian series "It's Fine, I'm Fine" which is having its Australian premiere at MIFF.

They start the quiz with a bang and slightly go off the rails at the end. But that's ok. Plenty of hints are given.

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It's not an official podcast crossover, but Kate Jinx and Brodie Lancaster are the co-hosts of See Also - a podcast where they connect the dots of pop culture in wide-ranging chat that takes in movies, music, television and much, much more. Unfortunately for them, there aren't a great many pop culture related questions in this week's quiz. That doesn't really stop them though.

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Mark and Geri are two of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. You'd know them from being on the telly. But what you might not know is that they've just made a movie together. Mark wrote and directed and Geri produced.

They're also really quite competent at the quiz. This is their second go at it and just like last time, they do really well.

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Last time she was on this podcast, Vidya shared the piece of trivia about Mark Twain being born and dying in the years that Halley's Comet passed by Earth. This time, she shares a very interesting detail about another famous writer.

She is joined in this episode by Stephen Nicolazzo, who just directed Vidya's stage adaptation of the classic Australian novel "Looking For Alibrandi".

It's on at the Malthouse in Melbourne and you should get your tickets right now!

https://www.malthousetheatre.com.au/tickets/malthouse-theatre/looking-for-alibrandi/

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Stephen Hall is a former Grand Champion from the television quiz show "Temptation" (which was the name they chose when they re-booted "Sale of the Century"), so the expectations were quite high that he would do well at this quiz.

He had plenty of help from his "Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell" fellow cast member, Tosh Greenslade who is a self-confessed fact spouter and has many personal connections to a few of the questions.

They barely put a foot wrong across politics, geography and linguistics... sport isn't their strong suit. But they get there in the end.

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Chris is one of the original member of the satirical news group The Chaser and Damon is an actor who you can see in the upcoming film Nude Tuesday which is in an entirely made-up language.

They're old friends, so expect a lot of backhanded compliments as they take on this week's quiz.

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Neither of the guests this week have been nominated for a Logie - but at least one of them should have been.

Fayssal Bazzi and Gareth Davies are two of the hardest working actors in the country.

You can catch Gary in Baz Lurhmann's Elvis right now. And you'll be able to see Fayssal in AppleTV+'s "Shantaram" as soon as it gets released.

They start very strong at the quiz with some personal connection to the opening question... but how well do they keep it up?

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Reclink Australia is a body that provides evidence-based sport and art programs to disadvantaged Australians to create socially inclusive, life-changing opportunities. Their biggest fundraising event is the Community Cup football match between a team made up of musicians and performing artists - the Rockdogs, and a team made up of radio station staff, print media and television personalities - the Megahertz.

Today's guests are representatives of each of those teams. Moozy is a musician who plays for the Rockdogs and Chris Gill is a radio host for the Megahertz.

How well do they do at the quiz?

About as well as they play footy.

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Brydon Coverdale is literally a quiz show professional, appearing as one of the chasers on The Chase Australia, after being a contestant on just about every other quiz show on offer - and he has also just published a book, The Quiz Masters: Inside the World of Trivia, Obsession and Million Dollar Prizes. So it's no surprise that he does very well at this quiz.

Justin Hamilton is an award winning comedian and also has some bona fide quiz credentials - as a writer and producer of tv shows Question Everything, The Chase and Dancing with the Stars.

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Catherine McClements and Shiv Palekar can currently both be seen in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of The Sound Inside. It’s a play about a literature academic and her student. Both characters come across as particularly intelligent and some of that intelligence has perhaps rubbed off onto the actors because Shiv and Cath barely put a foot wrong in this episode of the quiz. The answers come quickly, regardless if the questions are about sport, linguistics or politics.

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