AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER QUIZ

[magpie in the 80's]

1. Who was Australia's first Prime Minister?EDMUND BARTON

2. Sir Robert G Menzies was the ______ Prime Minister to serve non-consecutive terms? 3RD

1st
3rd
2nd
4th

3. What unusual middle name did Earle Page have? CHRISTMAS

4. Harold Holt was the _____ Prime Minister to die in office? 3RD

3rd
1st
2nd
4th

5. How did John Gorton's term in office end?RESIGNED AFTER BEING VOTED OUT BY HIS PARTY

6. Which Australian Prime Minister served the shortest term?FRANCIS FORDE

7. Who was the first Australian Prime Minister to serve for more than 10 years?ROBERT MENZIES

8. How many Prime Ministers did Australia have in the first 100 years of federation?25

9. Which Labor Prime Minister gave the famous "light on the hill" speech?BEN CHIFLEY

10. Which of the following laws were NOT passed by the first Whitlam ministry?

Abolition of tertiary fees (i.e. free education)
Universal, free health insurance
Abolition of conscription
Establishment of Legal Aid (i.e. free lawyers for poor people)

[Thiele]

1. Edmond Barton

[magpie in the 80's]

[quote="Thiele"]1. Edmond Barton....CORRECT

[PhilG]

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[magpie in the 80's]

[quote="PhilG"]4. Harold Holt was the _1st_ Prime Minister to die in office?..incorrect

5. How did John Gorton's term in office end? [color=red]His own party voted him out in favour of Billy McMahon..correct

7. Who was the first Australian Prime Minister to serve for more than 10 years? [color=red]Sir Robert Menzies..correct

10. Which of the following laws were NOT passed by the first Whitlam ministry?
[color=red]Abolition of tertiary fees (i.e. free education)..incorrect

[am Bays]

1. Who was Australia's first Prime Minister?EDMUND BARTON

2. Sir Robert G Menzies was the ______ Prime Minister to serve non-consecutive terms?

1st
3rd
2nd
4th

3rd (Deakin & Fisher)

3. What unusual middle name did Earle Page have?

4. Harold Holt was the _____ Prime Minister to die in office?

3rd
1st
2nd
4th

3rd (Lyons & Curtin the 1st)

5. How did John Gorton's term in office end?RESIGNED AFTER BEING VOTED OUT BY HIS PARTY

6. Which Australian Prime Minister served the shortest term?

Frank Forde (3 days I think after the death of Curtin)

7. Who was the first Australian Prime Minister to serve for more than 10 years?ROBERT MENZIES

8. How many Prime Ministers did Australia have in the first 100 years of federation? 25

9. Which Labor Prime Minister gave the famous "light on the hill" speech?

Ben Chifely

10. Which of the following laws were NOT passed by the first Whitlam ministry?

Abolition of tertiary fees (i.e. free education)
Universal, free health insurance
Abolition of conscription
Establishment of Legal Aid (i.e. free lawyers for poor people)

[magpie in the 80's]

1980 tassie

q2 correct
q4 correct
q6 correct
q8 correct
q9 correct

[am Bays]

MAgpies in the 80s

Q 2 Apart from Fisher, Deakin and Menzies who are the other PMs to serve multiple terms ( I originally thoght Hughes had too but went and checked it on australianpolitics.com.

Q4 apart from Lyons 1939 and Curtin 1945 who are the other PMs to have died in office???

[magpie in the 80's]

1980 TASSIE

MY MISTAKE BOTH QUESTIONS CORRECT
SHOULDN'T WORK IN THE DARK

[Leaping Lindner]

#3 - Is Christmas Grafton (Grafton after his home town and christmas because his parents were mad )

#5 - Gorton actually had the deciding vote and voted himself out.

#10 - I'm pretty sure that Menzies and not Whitlam was responsible for the abolition of tertiary fees but I'll take your word for it. Maybe free legal aid wasn't introduced until Whitlam's second ministry?

Here's a couple for you -

Which Australian PM was born in Chile?

Why was George Reid's ministry unique?

[magpie in the 80's]

[quote="Leaping Lindner"]#3 - Is Christmas Grafton (Grafton after his home town and christmas because his parents were mad )...CORRECT ON CHRISTMAS

#5 - Gorton actually had the deciding vote and voted himself out.THTA ALSO IS VERY TRUE

#10 - I'm pretty sure that Menzies and not Whitlam was responsible for the abolition of tertiary fees but I'll take your word for it. Maybe free legal aid wasn't introduced until Whitlam's second ministry?...CORRECT AGAIN ON MENZIES. I HAVN'T GIVEN AN ANSWER FOR Q10 ONLY PHILG HAS AND IT WAS INCORRECT

Here's a couple for you -

Which Australian PM was born in Chile?..WATSON

Why was George Reid's ministry unique?...SOMETHING TO DO WITH BEING THE 1ST FREE TRADERS?

[Leaping Lindner]

#3 - Is Christmas Grafton (Grafton after his home town and christmas because his parents were mad )...CORRECT ON CHRISTMAS

#5 - Gorton actually had the deciding vote and voted himself out.THTA ALSO IS VERY TRUE

#10 - I'm pretty sure that Menzies and not Whitlam was responsible for the abolition of tertiary fees but I'll take your word for it. Maybe free legal aid wasn't introduced until Whitlam's second ministry?...CORRECT AGAIN ON MENZIES. I HAVN'T GIVEN AN ANSWER FOR Q10 ONLY PHILG HAS AND IT WAS INCORRECT

Here's a couple for you -

Which Australian PM was born in Chile?..WATSON

Why was George Reid's ministry unique?...SOMETHING TO DO WITH BEING THE 1ST FREE TRADERS?

Indeed Watson was born in Chile and IIRC his father was German and never naturalised and as such Watson himself was never techinically a "Citizen of the Empire" and thus should never have been PM. I think that's the story.

Reid's ministry was the first Labor ministry in the world and he was the first Labor PM. Didn't last long though!

[magpie in the 80's]

#3 - Is Christmas Grafton (Grafton after his home town and christmas because his parents were mad )...CORRECT ON CHRISTMAS

#5 - Gorton actually had the deciding vote and voted himself out.THTA ALSO IS VERY TRUE

#10 - I'm pretty sure that Menzies and not Whitlam was responsible for the abolition of tertiary fees but I'll take your word for it. Maybe free legal aid wasn't introduced until Whitlam's second ministry?...CORRECT AGAIN ON MENZIES. I HAVN'T GIVEN AN ANSWER FOR Q10 ONLY PHILG HAS AND IT WAS INCORRECT

Here's a couple for you -

Which Australian PM was born in Chile?..WATSON

Why was George Reid's ministry unique?...SOMETHING TO DO WITH BEING THE 1ST FREE TRADERS?

Indeed Watson was born in Chile and IIRC his father was German and never naturalised and as such Watson himself was never techinically a "Citizen of the Empire" and thus should never have been PM. I think that's the story.

Reid's ministry was the first Labor ministry in the world and he was the first Labor PM. Didn't last long though!
ABOUT 11 MONTHS I THINK?

[mick]

I actually think there has never been a law to ABOLISH conscription passed by Whitlam. I think conscription was suspended. I had friends whose number came up and they received letters saying their intake into the army had been deferred or something like that, it seemed to suggest if conscription was activated again they would be called up. Well they are all over 50 now, so I suppose that won't happen

PS. LL is right John Gorton effectively voted himself out with his casting vote