The Australian Quiz
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:50 amWill be off line most of today so be patient !
EASY
1. Which pop star played the title role in the 2006 film Hating Alison Ashley? Delta Goodrem
2. What is the floral emblem of Australia? Wattle
3. What is Australia’s largest inland city? Canberra
4. What Aboriginal term for a waterhole is also the name of an Australian clothing company? Billabong
5. What do the letters of the television network SBS stand for? Special Broadcasting Service
6. What is the name of the original yellow Wiggle? Greg Page
7. Which bushranger did Sidney Nolan portray in a series of paintings he created in 1946-47? Ned Kelly
8. What was the name of the cyclone that devastated Darwin on Christmas Day 1974? - TRACY
9. What finished second to ‘Advance Australia Fair’ in the 1977 referendum to choose a national song? Waltzing Matilda
10. What natural disaster killed 13 people in Newcastle on December 28, 1989? Earthquake
MEDIUM
11. Which eminent heart surgeon was murdered in Sydney on July 4, 1991? Dr Victor Chang
12. Which former prime minister once managed a rock band called The Ramrods? Paul Keating
13. What does ASIC stand for? Australian Securities and Investments Commission
14. In which city did Australia’s first legal casino open for business in 1973? Hobart
15. Which American evangelist visited Australia in 1959, attracting over 3 million people to his ‘crusades’? Billy Graham
16. What worldwide pandemic killed more than 12,000 Australians in 1919? Spanish Flu
17. In which South Australian opal-mining town do many residents live underground to escape the heat? Coober Pedy
18. Who was Dannii Minogue’s first husband? Julian McMahaon
19. What was the name of the overweight father in the ‘Life. Be in It’ campaign launched in 1975? Norm
20. Who won silver in the men’s 200-metre freestyle at the Sydney Olympics? Ian Thorpe
HARD
21. What is the common name of Ornithorhynchus anatinus? Platypus
22. Who won the British Open women’s squash title a record 16 times? Heather McKay
23. Which Eureka Stockade leader went on to serve as Speaker of the Victorian Parliament? Peter Lalor
24. What was the name of the character played by Mel Gibson in Gallipoli? Frank Dunne
25. Which former pearling port is the most westerly town in Western Australia? - Denham
26. Who became the first Australian of the Year, in 1960? Sir Macfarlane Burnet
27. Which opera singer also won the New South Wales golf championship three times? - Joan Hammond
28. Which Queensland city was known as Elston until 1933? Surfers Paradise
29. What was the first album to sell more than one million copies in Australia? Whispering Jack - John Farnham
30. Who was the first Australian-born governor-general? Isaac Isaachs
Hopefully MAGS hasn't done this one
EASY
1. Which pop star played the title role in the 2006 film Hating Alison Ashley? Delta Goodrem
2. What is the floral emblem of Australia? Wattle
3. What is Australia’s largest inland city? Canberra
4. What Aboriginal term for a waterhole is also the name of an Australian clothing company? Billabong
5. What do the letters of the television network SBS stand for? Special Broadcasting Service
6. What is the name of the original yellow Wiggle? Greg Page
7. Which bushranger did Sidney Nolan portray in a series of paintings he created in 1946-47? Ned Kelly
8. What was the name of the cyclone that devastated Darwin on Christmas Day 1974? - TRACY
9. What finished second to ‘Advance Australia Fair’ in the 1977 referendum to choose a national song? Waltzing Matilda
10. What natural disaster killed 13 people in Newcastle on December 28, 1989? Earthquake
MEDIUM
11. Which eminent heart surgeon was murdered in Sydney on July 4, 1991? Dr Victor Chang
12. Which former prime minister once managed a rock band called The Ramrods? Paul Keating
13. What does ASIC stand for? Australian Securities and Investments Commission
14. In which city did Australia’s first legal casino open for business in 1973? Hobart
15. Which American evangelist visited Australia in 1959, attracting over 3 million people to his ‘crusades’? Billy Graham
16. What worldwide pandemic killed more than 12,000 Australians in 1919? Spanish Flu
17. In which South Australian opal-mining town do many residents live underground to escape the heat? Coober Pedy
18. Who was Dannii Minogue’s first husband? Julian McMahaon
19. What was the name of the overweight father in the ‘Life. Be in It’ campaign launched in 1975? Norm
20. Who won silver in the men’s 200-metre freestyle at the Sydney Olympics? Ian Thorpe
HARD
21. What is the common name of Ornithorhynchus anatinus? Platypus
22. Who won the British Open women’s squash title a record 16 times? Heather McKay
23. Which Eureka Stockade leader went on to serve as Speaker of the Victorian Parliament? Peter Lalor
24. What was the name of the character played by Mel Gibson in Gallipoli? Frank Dunne
25. Which former pearling port is the most westerly town in Western Australia? - Denham
26. Who became the first Australian of the Year, in 1960? Sir Macfarlane Burnet
27. Which opera singer also won the New South Wales golf championship three times? - Joan Hammond
28. Which Queensland city was known as Elston until 1933? Surfers Paradise
29. What was the first album to sell more than one million copies in Australia? Whispering Jack - John Farnham
30. Who was the first Australian-born governor-general? Isaac Isaachs
Hopefully MAGS hasn't done this one
