HOW CAN WE NOT HAVE AN AUSTRALIA DAY QUIZ PART 1
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:14 amSOMEWHAT EASIER QUESTIONS THAN PART 2
1. In what year did the First Fleet arrive in Sydney?
1788
2. In what year did Australia become a Federation?
1901
3. In what field is or was Dame Nellie Melba famous?
SINGER
4. In what field is or was Sir William Dobell famous?
PAINTER
5. In what state are the Jenolan Caves?
NEW SOUTH WALES
6. Layne Beachley starred or stars or in what sport?
SURFING
7. What Australian film first made Paul Hogan very famous overseas?
CROCODILE DUNDEE
8. What Australian film was about a radiotelescope in Parkes?
THE DISH
9. What is the highest mountain in Australia?
MT. KOSCIUSZKO
10. What is the more common name for wild horses in Australia?
BRUMBIES
11. Which Australian film features the recovery of a lost horse?
THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER
12. Which inland missionary appears on the Australian $20 note?
JOHN FLYNN
13. What is the more common name for Acacia?
WATTLE
14. What aerodynamic invention was made by an Australian Aborigine?
THE BOOMERANG
15. Slim Dusty sang a song about an unusual hotel. What was it?
THE PUB WITH NO BEER
16. In what year was the colony of South Australia established?
1836
17. What is the first line of Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country'?
THE LOVE OF FIELD AND COPPICE
18. Which Australian Aboriginal painter became famous for his water colours of central Australia?
ALBERT NAMATIJARA
19. What nickname was given to bushranger Daniel Morgan?
MAD DOG
20. Who had "such is life" as his dying words?
NED KELLY
21. Which Australian pioneer of aviation invented the box kite?
LAWRENCE HARGRAVE
22. Who designed the Sydney Opera House?
JOHN UTZON
23. Who wrote 'Storm Boy'?
COLIN THIELE
24. It is a relative of the wombat and lives in trees. What is it?
KOALA
25. What is the more common name for Macropus?
KANGAROO
26. Convicted of forgery and transported, who was the architect who designed many fine Sydney buildings for Macquarie?
FRANCIS GREENWAY
27. This American architect designed an incinerator in suburban Sydney, and the city of Canberra. Who was he?
WALTER BURLEY GRIFFIN
28. Who was the convict who spent more than 30 years living among the Aborigines near Port Phillip Bay?
WILLIAM BUCKLEY
29. Who was the only Australian to win three Olympic gold medals in the same event at three successive Games?
DAWN FRASER
30. When something is completely obvious, who could see it?
BLIND FREDDIE
31. This Dutch captain visited Shark Bay in 1616 and left a pewter plate there. Who was he?
DIRK HARTOG
32. What device to keep food cool by the evaporation of water was invented on the gold fields of WA?
COOLGARDIE SAFE
33. Which sea captain had his ship taken from him in a mutiny, and was later a governor of New South Wales?
WILLIAM BLIGH
34. Who wrote 'Possum Magic'?
MEM FOX
35. On what river would you find Bourke?
DARLING
36. In what state are the Naracoorte Caves?
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
37. In what state are the Wombeyan Caves?
NEW SOUTH WALES
38. In what state are the Yallingup Caves?
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
39. What did Maria Ann Smith of Eastwood give her name to? (It all started with Tasmanian French Crabs.)
SHE GREW THE 1ST GRANNY SMITH APPLE
40. What Australian invention helps the hearing impaired who cannot get any benefit from ordinary hearing aids?
THE COCHLEAR IMPLANT
41. Complete this phrase: a few kangaroos loose in
THE TOP PADDOCK
42. The name means 'treeless' - what is the place?
NULLABOUR PLAIN
43. What is the more common name for the monitors?
GOANNAS
44. Who was born in Yorkshire in 1728, and explored much of Australia's east coast?
JAMES COOK
45. What famous Australian company was established at Winton in Queensland in 1920?
QANTAS
46. In what year was the first white settlement at the Swan River established?
1829
47. Who was the Torres Strait islander who lodged a legal claim that overthrew the doctrine of terra nullius?
EDDIE MABO
48. Complete this phrase in Australian with two words: as fit as a
MALLEE BULL
49. What did Thomas Austin do in 1859 to harm Australia?
HE RELEASED RABBITS INTOTHE WILD
50. Which English explorer visited Australia twice, first in 1688, and again in 1699?
WILLIAM DAMPIER
51. Who wrote 'The Magic Pudding'?
NORMAN LINDSEY
52. What linked Australia to the world in 1872?
THE OVERLAND TELEGRAPH
53. What disease epidemic threatened Sydney in 1900?
BUBONIC PLAGUE
54. What is the more common name for the Casuarinas?
SHE-OAKS
55. What is a more common name used for the phalangers?
POSSUMS
56. What is the more common name for that well-known pest, Oryctolagus cuniculus?
RABBIT
57. Caroline Jones is remembered today by her married name, for the help she gave to immigrant women after 1838. What was it?
CARLOINE CHISOLM
58. Where did Crooked Mick come from?
THE SPEEWAH
59. Who was convicted of horse stealing while disguised as a boy, later transported, and appears on an Australian banknote?
MARY REIBEY
60. Who was born in Guangdong, came to Australia, was raised at Braidwood, where he learned to speak English with a Scots accent, and opened a tea-rooms in King Street Sydney?
QUONG TART
1. In what year did the First Fleet arrive in Sydney?
1788
2. In what year did Australia become a Federation?
1901
3. In what field is or was Dame Nellie Melba famous?
SINGER
4. In what field is or was Sir William Dobell famous?
PAINTER
5. In what state are the Jenolan Caves?
NEW SOUTH WALES
6. Layne Beachley starred or stars or in what sport?
SURFING
7. What Australian film first made Paul Hogan very famous overseas?
CROCODILE DUNDEE
8. What Australian film was about a radiotelescope in Parkes?
THE DISH
9. What is the highest mountain in Australia?
MT. KOSCIUSZKO
10. What is the more common name for wild horses in Australia?
BRUMBIES
11. Which Australian film features the recovery of a lost horse?
THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER
12. Which inland missionary appears on the Australian $20 note?
JOHN FLYNN
13. What is the more common name for Acacia?
WATTLE
14. What aerodynamic invention was made by an Australian Aborigine?
THE BOOMERANG
15. Slim Dusty sang a song about an unusual hotel. What was it?
THE PUB WITH NO BEER
16. In what year was the colony of South Australia established?
1836
17. What is the first line of Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country'?
THE LOVE OF FIELD AND COPPICE
18. Which Australian Aboriginal painter became famous for his water colours of central Australia?
ALBERT NAMATIJARA
19. What nickname was given to bushranger Daniel Morgan?
MAD DOG
20. Who had "such is life" as his dying words?
NED KELLY
21. Which Australian pioneer of aviation invented the box kite?
LAWRENCE HARGRAVE
22. Who designed the Sydney Opera House?
JOHN UTZON
23. Who wrote 'Storm Boy'?
COLIN THIELE
24. It is a relative of the wombat and lives in trees. What is it?
KOALA
25. What is the more common name for Macropus?
KANGAROO
26. Convicted of forgery and transported, who was the architect who designed many fine Sydney buildings for Macquarie?
FRANCIS GREENWAY
27. This American architect designed an incinerator in suburban Sydney, and the city of Canberra. Who was he?
WALTER BURLEY GRIFFIN
28. Who was the convict who spent more than 30 years living among the Aborigines near Port Phillip Bay?
WILLIAM BUCKLEY
29. Who was the only Australian to win three Olympic gold medals in the same event at three successive Games?
DAWN FRASER
30. When something is completely obvious, who could see it?
BLIND FREDDIE
31. This Dutch captain visited Shark Bay in 1616 and left a pewter plate there. Who was he?
DIRK HARTOG
32. What device to keep food cool by the evaporation of water was invented on the gold fields of WA?
COOLGARDIE SAFE
33. Which sea captain had his ship taken from him in a mutiny, and was later a governor of New South Wales?
WILLIAM BLIGH
34. Who wrote 'Possum Magic'?
MEM FOX
35. On what river would you find Bourke?
DARLING
36. In what state are the Naracoorte Caves?
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
37. In what state are the Wombeyan Caves?
NEW SOUTH WALES
38. In what state are the Yallingup Caves?
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
39. What did Maria Ann Smith of Eastwood give her name to? (It all started with Tasmanian French Crabs.)
SHE GREW THE 1ST GRANNY SMITH APPLE
40. What Australian invention helps the hearing impaired who cannot get any benefit from ordinary hearing aids?
THE COCHLEAR IMPLANT
41. Complete this phrase: a few kangaroos loose in
THE TOP PADDOCK
42. The name means 'treeless' - what is the place?
NULLABOUR PLAIN
43. What is the more common name for the monitors?
GOANNAS
44. Who was born in Yorkshire in 1728, and explored much of Australia's east coast?
JAMES COOK
45. What famous Australian company was established at Winton in Queensland in 1920?
QANTAS
46. In what year was the first white settlement at the Swan River established?
1829
47. Who was the Torres Strait islander who lodged a legal claim that overthrew the doctrine of terra nullius?
EDDIE MABO
48. Complete this phrase in Australian with two words: as fit as a
MALLEE BULL
49. What did Thomas Austin do in 1859 to harm Australia?
HE RELEASED RABBITS INTOTHE WILD
50. Which English explorer visited Australia twice, first in 1688, and again in 1699?
WILLIAM DAMPIER
51. Who wrote 'The Magic Pudding'?
NORMAN LINDSEY
52. What linked Australia to the world in 1872?
THE OVERLAND TELEGRAPH
53. What disease epidemic threatened Sydney in 1900?
BUBONIC PLAGUE
54. What is the more common name for the Casuarinas?
SHE-OAKS
55. What is a more common name used for the phalangers?
POSSUMS
56. What is the more common name for that well-known pest, Oryctolagus cuniculus?
RABBIT
57. Caroline Jones is remembered today by her married name, for the help she gave to immigrant women after 1838. What was it?
CARLOINE CHISOLM
58. Where did Crooked Mick come from?
THE SPEEWAH
59. Who was convicted of horse stealing while disguised as a boy, later transported, and appears on an Australian banknote?
MARY REIBEY
60. Who was born in Guangdong, came to Australia, was raised at Braidwood, where he learned to speak English with a Scots accent, and opened a tea-rooms in King Street Sydney?
QUONG TART
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