Dissident's Adelaide Quiz

[BenchedEagle]

1. How was the name Glynburn road derived? Argument over whether to road should be name Glynde or Burnside Rd.
2. Name the only two suburbs of Adelaide with four letters in their names? Hove, Skye
3. To what name was the Hahndorf changed during World War I? Ambleside
4. How many sets of traffic lights are there on West Terrace? Eight
5. Name the six squares of the city and North Adelaide? Victoria, Light, Whitmore, Hindmarsh, Hurtle, Wellington
6. The Tea Tree Gully council area was originally called what? Stevenson
7. Does Colonel William Light point with his left hand, or right hand? Right
8. A famous icon in SA, "Villis" - what country did Villi himself migrate from? Hungary
9. Name two metropolitan suburbs that start with V? Valley View, Vista, Verdun, Vale Park, Virginia? (With the current rate of urban sprawl this soon will be a suburb of Adelaide.}
10. All main East/West streets in the city centre begin at King William Street. Why is this? As said. No roads can ever cross a road named in honour of a king.
11. What is the South Australian state gemstone? Opal
12. There are at least 7 "arcades" close to Rundle Mall, between Grenfell St and North Terrace. Name 5 of them. Adelaide, Regent, City Cross, Southern Cross, Gays, Renaissance, Station, Millers
13. Frewville, Heathpool, Tonsley Park, Direk & Greenfields. Which one is not a suburb of Adelaide? Tonsley Park - confusing because Mitsibishi is well known to be at Tonsley park???
14. CHASTENED LOGROLLING, ENTANGLED SCHOOLGIRL, DANGLING CHOLESTEROL - What suburb is an anagram of all these? (note, there's ONE answer, not THREE Colonel Light Gardens

[BenchedEagle]

And i didnt go googling. Street diectory and history of SA text book.

[Dissident]

So you DID cheat then

You actually got one wrong. It's Steventon, not Stevenson

And Station Arcade isn't off of Rundle Mall between Grenfell and North Tce, it's off of Hindley/North Tce.
There's also Da Costa Arcade and Twin & Plaza Arcade

[Dissident]

Oh, and Millers arcade is off Hindley as well from memory - near the Cop Shop.

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new quizz Diss

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[Dissident]

14. CHASTENED LOGROLLING, ENTANGLED SCHOOLGIRL, DANGLING CHOLESTEROL - What suburb is an anagram of all these? (note, there's ONE answer, not THREE)

Well if that's the case then it's not an anagram - the anagram of that reveals CLESGC.

No, that would be an acronym wouldn't it ? Not an anagram. Maybe you're confusing acronym with anagram ?

If you rearrange the letters of COLONEL LIGHT GARDENS you get :

CHASTENED LOGROLLING AND
ENTANGLED SCHOOLGIRL AND
DANGLING CHOLESTEROL

[Dissident]

1. How was the name Glynburn road derived?

Answer: It's a combination of Glynde and Burnside where the road starts (Glynde, in the Campbelltown council area) and finishes (Burnside Council) who couldn't agree on a name for the road.

2. Name the only two suburbs of Adelaide with four letters in their names?

Answer: Hove, Skye

3. To what name was the Hahndorf changed during World War I?

Answer: Ambleside

4. How many sets of traffic lights are there on West Terrace?

Answer: Eight

5. Name the six squares of the city and North Adelaide?

Answer: Victoria, Light, Whitmore, Hindmarsh, Hurtle, Wellington

6. The Tea Tree Gully council area was originally called what?

Answer: Steventon

7. Does Colonel William Light point with his left hand, or right hand?

Answer: Right

8. A famous icon in SA, "Vilis" - what country did Vili himself migrate from?

Answer: Hungary

9. Name two metropolitan suburbs that start with V?

Answer: Valley View, Vista & Vale Park. I would accept Verdun and Virginia although they struggle to be classes as "metropolitan"

10. All main East/West streets in the city centre begin at King William Street. Why is this?

Answer: Requested by King William, so that no "commoner" would cross the path of a king.

11. What is the South Australian state gemstone?

Answer: Opal

12. There are at least 7 "arcades" close to Rundle Mall, between Grenfell St and North Terrace. Name 5 of them.

Answer: Adelaide, Regent, City Cross, Citi Centre, Southern Cross, Gays, Renaissance & Da Costa

13. Frewville, Heathpool, Tonsley Park, Direk & Greenfields. Which one is not a suburb of Adelaide?

Answer: Tonsley Park

14. CHASTENED LOGROLLING, ENTANGLED SCHOOLGIRL, DANGLING CHOLESTEROL - What suburb is an anagram of all these? (note, there's ONE answer, not THREE

Answer: Colonel Light Gardens

[BenchedEagle]

Oh and Lizbeff;

10. All main East/West streets in the city centre begin at King William Street. Why is this? As said. No roads can ever cross a road named in honour of a king.

Strictly speaking - we've got two streets in Melbourne named after monarchs (William and Elizabeth) and commoners cross them (Collins, Bourke, Lonsdale, Latrobe). The difference with Adelaide is that King William specifically requested it.

Just call me Barry Jones Junior!

Did not know that. Just another bit of useless information to pack into my brain. Good quiz anyway

[Dissident]

Oh and Lizbeff;

10. All main East/West streets in the city centre begin at King William Street. Why is this? As said. No roads can ever cross a road named in honour of a king.

Strictly speaking - we've got two streets in Melbourne named after monarchs (William and Elizabeth) and commoners cross them (Collins, Bourke, Lonsdale, Latrobe). The difference with Adelaide is that King William specifically requested it.

Just call me Barry Jones Junior!

Don't you have Adelaide Street as well ?
Another named after a monarch
(If it's true)

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[Leaping Lindner]

Here's an Adelaide question.....Why are Adelaidians/South Australians called croweaters???

[Dissident]

Here's an Adelaide question.....Why are Adelaidians/South Australians called croweaters???

Croweaters

An origin of the term "crow eater" is explored in the Register, 6 February 1925, page 13e:

[It] was first applied to some of the original settlers at Mount Barker who - whether from necessity or a desire to sample strange native fauna - killed, cooked and ate some crows disguised under the term "Mount Barker pheasants"... Later the term... was applied generally to all.

Also see Register, 18 and 22 December 1926, pages 15g and 12e:

The original croweaters were Western Australian not South Australians... Why [we] are called croweaters or by whom the name was originated I am at a loss to know... G.F. Moore [in his book on Western Australia] wrote (29/4/1832)"dined on four crows and a quail" and (1/5/1832) "shot a crow for dinner".

The following appears in the Register, 15 March 1927, page 12f:

In 1851 my father and uncle travelled overland to the Bendigo diggings. On their arrival they were accosted with the words "crow-eaters"... A short time before they arrived a party of South Australians had arrived in a very hard-up state... While crossing the 90-mile desert they run out of tucker and were forced to shoot crows for food... On relating their experience they were dubbed crow-eaters. The term was afterwards applied to every new arrival from the central State.

Another explanation of its origin is to be found in the Advertiser,
12 April 1934, page 16h.

"Crows for the Cafe" is in the Advertiser,
24 December 1935, page 17b.

[Leaping Lindner]

Excellent work there Diss. The version I heard was that in the early days of the colony things were going so badly that it was said the settlers would have no sheep left and end up eating crows.
Of course we all know the only crows in South Australia have two legs and two arms and play football at West Lakes. They are in fact Ravens in South Australia.

[Punk Rooster]

Excellent work there Diss. The version I heard was that in the early days of the colony things were going so badly that it was said the settlers would have no sheep left and end up eating crows.
Of course we all know the only crows in South Australia have two legs and two arms and play football at West Lakes. They are in fact Ravens in South Australia.

So you support the Adelaide Ravens?