1. What is Australia's Highest Mountain? | Mt. Kosciusko |
2. What do the initials ACT stand for? | Australian Capital Territory |
3. What is the name of the mountains running along the East Coast of Australia? | Great Dividing Range |
4. When we celebrate Australia Day , what are we exactly celebrating? | The landing of the first fleet |
5. Who came to Australia as an army officer in 1790 and succeeded in breeding sheep for wool? | John Macarthur |
6. Who bred varieties of wheat that could resist diseases? His most famous wheat was 'Federation' | William Farrer |
7. What am I? I am an event where gold miners fought the police because of the high costs for mining licences | The Eureka Stockade |
8.Who was the first person to fly across the Pacific Ocean in 1928 in a plane called the 'Southern Cross' | Sir Charles Kingsford Smith |
9.Which female aboriginal tennis player won two Wimbledon tennis titles? | Evonne Cawley (Goolagong) |
10.Which Australian poet and short story writer is on our $10 note? | Henry Lawson |
11. Name the largest plain in South and Western Australia. It's name means "no trees" | The Nullarbor Plain |
12. What is the body of water separating Australia and Papua New Guinea? | Torres Strait |
13. Name four major rivers in northern New South Wales? | Tweed, Richmond, Clarence and Macleay |
14. Which cricketer was a champion batsman in the 1930's and 1940's? | Sir Donald Bradman |
15. What date is Australia Day? | 26th January |
16. Who first crossed the Blue Mountains in 1813? | Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth |
17.In what year did we become the Commonwealth of Australia? | 1901 |
18. Who was the first Prime Minister? | Sir Edmund Barton |
19. Who first circumnavigated and mapped the Australian coastline? | Matthew Flinders |
20. Who was the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature? | Patrick White |
21. Where is the second largest radio telescope in the world? | Parkes (N.S.W.) |
22.Who wrote 'Snuggle Pot and Cuddle Pie'? | May Gibbs |
23. Who invented the harvester, making farming much easier? | Hugh McKay |
24.In 1862, who crossed Australia from Adelaide to the north Coast | John McDowell Stuart |
25. When was gold discovered in NSW? | 1851 |
26. By whom/ | Hargraves |
27. Name Australia's longest river | The Murray River |
28. Which bushranger was hanged in Old Melbourne Gaol in 1880? | Ned Kelly |
29. What does QANTAS stand for? | Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service |
30. Who played an important part in the development of penicillin? | Lord Florey |
31. In what year was the first Holden made? | 1948 |
32.In 1923, a food product was first produced and has become very famous. What is it? | Vegemite |
33. Who was the Sydney Aborigine to act as an ambassador when taken to England? | Bennelong |
34. in 1823, who explored Moreton Bay and the Brisbane River? | Oxley |
35. Who in 1829 followed the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers to the sea? | Sturt |
36. Who first crossed Australia from north to south? | Burke and Wills |
37. Which coach company, started in 1853, provided a coach service between Melbourne and the gold fields? | Cobb and Co |
38. Whose idea was the royal flying Doctors service? | John Flynn |
39. Name the Australian artist famous for his paintings of the gumtrees of Central Australia? | Albert Namatjira |
40. Who was our first farmer? | James Ruse |
41.Who made the first recorded sighting of the Australian continent? | Jantz |
42. When did Captain Cook discover the east coast of Australia ? | 1770 |
43.On the banks of what river does Melbourne stand | The Yarra river |
44.Who was the 'man with the donkey' at Gallipoli? | Simpson |
45.Which pioneer woman worked hard to help the newly arrived women and children? | Caroline Chisholm |
46.What famous Sydney construction was opened in 1932? | The Harbour Bridge |
47. In what year did Australia change to decimal currency? | 1966 |
48. What do we call the Northern most part of Australia ? | Cape York |
49.Which is the largest natural lake - when it has water in it? | Lake Eyre |
50.What was Australia originally called? | New Holland |
51.Who was the Dutch explorer who claimed Tasmania in 1842? | Abel Tasman |
52. What was Tasmania originally called? | Van Dieman's Land |
In which year did Melbourne host the Olympic Games? | 1956 |
53. What river is Perth located on? | The Swan river |
54. Who was the first Governor? | Governor Phillip |
55. Which large desert spreads over parts of Northern Territory, SA and Queensland? | The Simpson Desert |
56. Name two Victorian country cities that were founded on gold? | Bendigo and Ballarat |
57. What is the name of the tool used by aborigines to throw spears? | woomera |
58. How many times would Tasmania fit inside Queensland? | 25 times |
59. What is a Jumbuk? | A sheep |
60. What precious stones are found at Coober Pedy? | opals |
61. What do you call a group of Kangaroos? | A troop |
62. What did Lance Hill invent in 1945? | Rotary Clothes hoist |
63. What is the main product of the Barossa Valley in South Australia ? | wine |
64. If you won the Archibald Prize, the Wynne Prize or the Sulman prize, what would you be? | An Artist |
65.Which Australian bird is on our 10cent coin? | Lyrebird |
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