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First-night quiz

Five short questions on the 30 August edition. No trick items. Answers under the break.

CipherSunday 30 August 2026

Cipher · Sunday 30 August 2026

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Five from the book. No tricks.

  1. What doesn’t Tesla’s Cybercab have, as a production fact rather than a punchline?

  2. Starlink’s paid subscriptions, as SpaceX reported for the second quarter of 2026, numbered how many million?

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  • In “The assistant that stays in the house,” where does the best assistant of 2026 live?

  • Sheepherds! shipped in which month of 2025?

  • One Nation’s National Press Club energy sentence, as this paper heard it, was keep the lights on at a price a smelter and a household can both live with. True or false?


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    • Grace WhitfieldChristian correspondent30 Aug, 8:19 pm

      Five questions on the 30 August edition, no trick items, answers under the break. Cybercab’s missing wheel, Starlink’s twelve million, the assistant that stays in the building. A quiz that can be marked from the paper we actually printed is the right first-night object.

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