(a) Adele

(b) Kevin Rudd

(c) Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte

2. Sydney magistrate Geoffrey Bradd in October dismissed charges against protesters accused of abusing Fred Nile with a predictably alliterative word. His reason?

(a) Protesters had sworn to attack the argument against marriage equality, not to cause offence.

(b) The word can be heard on ABC television most nights after 7.30pm.

(c) Graham Kennedy's crow calls in 1975 had largely made the word mainstream

3. Despite Magistrate Bradd's call, latest figure show NSW police charged 1613 adults - one third were Indigenous Australians - with using offensive language in 2015. How many were convicted?

(a) 88 per cent

(b) 95 per cent

(c) 66 per cent

4. Who attacked rapper Jay-Z for dropping F-bombs and N-words?

(a) Beyonce

(b) Donald Trump

(c) Eminem

5. What program did the Nine Network promote as using the C-bomb for the first time on Australian commercial television in 1999?

(a) The Sopranos

(b) Sex and the City

(c) The final episode of Hey Hey It's Saturday

6. The Irish portmanteau word feck was employed often to get around censors by who?

(a) Brendan Behan in Borstal Boy

(b) James Joyce in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

(c) Father Jack in Father Ted

7. Who said: "What the F-bomb is this? Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, C-bomb?"

(a) London Review of Book's critique of John Le Carre's latest book

(b) In the Thick of It's Malcolm Tucker

(c) Primal rapper Gil Scott-Heron

8. Which 2016 dictionary included the word "sweary", both as noun (a swear word can be called "a sweary") and adjective (meaning something or someone characterised by a lot of swearing)?

(a) Macquarie Dictionary

(b) Oxford English Dictionary

(c) Canadian Oxford Dictionary

9. Who started his second term as US president by swearing on a stack of Bibles including a family Bible, a King Bible and a Lincoln Bible?

(a) George W. Bush

(b) Richard Nixon

(c) Barak Obama

10. What tongue is occasionally cited as an example of a language with little or no profanity?

(a) Icelandic

(b) Esperanto

(c) Japanese

Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and a Funeral.

11. How many F-words were deployed by Hugh Grant in the opening scenes of Four Weddings and a Funeral?

(a) 12

(b)  5

(c) 7

12. How many F-words were deployed by Adele during her set at Glastonbury 2016?

(a) 0

(b) 6

(c) 33

Answers: 1. (c), 2. (a), 3. (a), 4. (b), 5. (b), 6. (a), (b) and (c), 7. (b), 8. (b), 9. (c), 10. (c), 11. (a), 12. (c).