Statistics for Australia - Multiple Choice #2

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Who was the Simpson Desert named for?	A.A. Simpson (mayor of Adelaide 1913-1915)	100%
Robert O'Hara Burke perished on an expedition in the 1860s. Why?	All of the above	100%
Trips to Jenolan Caves in NSW in the early 1990s became unpopular for what reason?	All of the above	100%
Irish-Australian journalist, welfare worker and anthropologist amongst indigenous tribes in western and southern Australia. Was married to the 'Breaker' for about six minutes.	Daisy Bates	100%
Rhyming slang - Oxford Scholar.	Dollar	100%
Very popular but highly over-rated premier of NSW. Smart enough to resign before the walls came crashing down around her Armenian-Australian ears in earnest. Oh, why cannot these people in high office behave themselves and just do their bloody job?	Gladys Berejiklian	100%
This Australian Lieutenant-General did a Dougie MacArthur and even before Dougie MacArthur did HIS Dougie MacArthur. Deserted his troops at the last minute and left them to fend for themselves at the hands of the Japanese in WWII.	Gordon Bennett	100%
Two Australian soldiers executed by firing squad for 'murder' on the insistence of Kitchener, the British commander-in-chief, as a political expedience during the Second Boer War. Executed 1902.	Harry Morant and Peter Handcock	100%
Writer of prose and verse. State funeral in 1962. She is on the ten dollar note.	Mary Gilmore	100%
Although a monocline and NOT a monolith, Western Australian tourism promoters claim it is the world's biggest of the latter.	Mount Augustus	100%
Australia's highest point.	Mount Kosciuszko	100%
Two 'Australian' actors, generations apart, received Oscars. One of them for 'Best Actor', the other for 'Best Supporting Actor' respectively. What is remarkable about this achievement of them both?	Neither of them knew they had won	100%
The closest country to Australia proper?	Papua New Guinea	100%
Rhyming slang - Schindler's List.	Pissed (intoxicated)	100%
Which bay, a World Heritage Site, is in the vicinity of the cities/towns of Carnarvon and Denham on the Western Australia coast?	Shark Bay	100%
Rhyming slang - Joe Blake	Snake	100%
Which Australian showman ('conservationist') famously antagonised reptiles and other wildlife to bite or take a snap at him for the cameras until a stingray antagonised HIM permanently off the Queensland coast in 2006?	Steve Irwin	100%
Nickname for the Sydney Harbour Bridge.	The Coat Hanger	100%
When you think of Sydney... what springs to mind?	The Sydney Opera House AND the Sydney Harbour Bridge and not much else. Elle Macpherson's legs maybe?	100%
Slang for Australian currency - Red Back.	Twenty Dollars	100%
The first terrorist attack on Australian soil by foreign elements occured on New Year's Day in 1915. Where did it happen?	Broken Hill, New South Wales	0%
Australian aviator who disappeared with two others on a test flight from California to Hawaii in 1934.	Charles Ulm	0%
Adelaide's most prominent founder.	Colonel William Light	0%
First female member of parliament.	Edith Cowan	0%
This little turd flap of a former prime minister is quick to point out he is the second longest-serving prime minister of Australia. What is another of little Johnny Coward's political seconds?	He is the second incumbent Australian prime minister to lose an election AND his seat. Stanley Bruce was the first.	0%
Soldier. Born Evandale, Tasmania. Described as the British Empire's most decorated infantryman. VC, DSO & bar, DCM, Croix de guerre etc.	Henry (Harry) Murray	0%
In a mutually destructive encounter, an Australian light cruiser engaged a German auxillary cruiser off Carnarvon, Western Australia in 1941. What were the ships named?	HMAS Sydney and Kormoran	0%
An Australian light cruiser engaged a German light cruiser off the coast of the Cocos Islands in 1914, forcing it to run aground. What were the ships named?	HMAS Sydney and SMS Emden	0%
Slang for Australian currency - Monash.	Hundred Dollars	0%
Ninth prime minister. First Catholic and Irish-Australian to hold the office. Labor Party. No bullets came his way but Wall Street crashed on his head two days after he was sworn in. To be sure.	James Scullin	0%
Gulf shared by Western Australia and Northern Territory.	Joseph Bonaparte Gulf	0%
She circumnavigated the world in a boat.	Kay Cottee	0%
Where are the 'Walls of China'?	Lake Mungo, New South Wales	0%
Some womens now. Australia's first saint.	Mary MacKillop	0%
This 'Australian' golfer earned the nickname 'The Great White Shark' after he boasted he was a big-time Carcharodon carcharias hunter. He later admitted he had never even seen a Great White outside a Steven Spielberg movie. Where was this legend in his own lunch pail born?	Mount Isa, Queensland	0%
Site in the Northern Territory once mined for its uranium. Rio Tinto, the mining company, vehemently deny that their mining operations have contaminated the area and refuse to pay a cent for its rehabilitation.	Rum Jungle	0%
Pioneer in an effective treatment for polio.	Sister Kenny (Elizabeth Kenny)	0%
Which desert is largest?	Tanami Desert	0%
What is the best thing to ever come out of Melbourne?	The Hume Highway	0%
Nickname for the Sydney Opera House.	The Snail Orgy	0%
Which city/town is furthest south on the New South Wales coast?	Wollongong	0%

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