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Embarrassing Moments in Australian History (Multiple Choice)

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Last updated: February 27, 2024
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1. This aircraft carrier had an unpleasant propensity for sinking USN warships and killing lots of USN sailors.
HMAS Sydney ✓
HMAS Perth ✓
HMAS Melbourne ✓
HMAS Nicole Kidman ✓
This wonderful boat never saw action. Loved the idea of 'Friendly Fire.'
2. This animal in soft toy form is presented to every celebrity visiting Australia so ubiquitously by every prime minister and Australian 'dignitary'... it is enough to make a Tasmanian devil scream.
Numbat ✓
Wombat ✓
Drop Bear ✓
Koala ✓
Give us a break! You are more likely to step on a western brown than see one of these eucalyptus junkies. They are quite ugly. Quite repulsive.
3. This snake was given a really, cool-sounding name even though it is too lazy to bite a frog half the time let alone a person.
Inland taipan ✓
Western brown snake ✓
Death adder ✓
Red-bellied black snake ✓
The indigenous people of the north in Kangaroo Land have them around their houses like chickens in a backyard.
4. This female impersonator is only funny to elderly ladies and men uncertain about their sexual orientation.
Robert Mnzies ✓
Barry Jones ✓
Barry Humphreys ✓
The Kaidaicha Man ✓
About as funny as David Letterman. Jack Black. Ben Stiller.
5. This man's family on a small selection in Victoria in the 19th century was persecuted by a rich landowner who was aided and abetted by the police. After the slaying of three, corrupt police officers in self defence, he and his 'gang' were declared outlaws. Hanged in Melbourne in 1880.
Ben Hall ✓
Frank Gardiner ✓
Dame Edna Everidge ✓
Ned Kelly ✓
6. The rivalry between the police forces of the New South Wales and Victoria colonies allowed this mentally ill individual to terrorise a huge swathe of border country for nearly a decade.
Molly Meldrum ✓
Daniel Morgan ✓
John Laws ✓
Malcolm Fraser ✓
7. This actress started out as a freckled-faced, red-headed teen character in a low-budget, Australian movie about teenage bicycle thieves. She now thinks she is is the Antipodean answer to Meryl Streep.
Cate Blanchett ✓
Judy Davis ✓
Nicole Kidman ✓
Merle Oberon ✓
BMX Bandits. The flash of her lily-white tush in 'Dead Calm' had me considering being a yachtsman.
8. When Australia emphatically voted 'NO!' to the conscription of Australian males during two world wars, this Australian prime minister managed to get a bill passed in parliament for conscription for a donnybrook in French Indo-China. He used to sleep with a picture of QEII under his pillow.
Robert the Bruce ✓
Robert Hughes ✓
Robert Menzies ✓
Stanley Bruce ✓
9. This Australian Navy captain cost Australia a cruiser and its full complement when he failed to fire upon an unidentified vessel in Australian waters... even after it being signalled four times to identify itself.
Captain Bennett ✓
Tony Bennett ✓
Gordon Bennett ✓
Captain Ahab ✓
After four requests for a strange vessel to identify itself. And moving into its gun range. Well done, Captain Bennett!
10. This city-born-bred galah used to work with a crew that painted a famous bridge. Found instant fame portraying yet another slayer of saurians. Deserted his wife for a Hollywood gold-digger. "That's not a wife... this is a wife."
Clive James ✓
Olivia Newton-John ✓
Paul Hogan ✓
Gillian Gillard ✓
Yeah, yeah... once on a charter boat with the Great White Shark. And the Crocodile Hunter. And Tiger Woods. Buffalo Bill's great-great--great-grandaughter. Skipper yells "Get off my boat! This is a fishing trip! Not a trip to the zoo!" He sees a girl crying and goes to comfort her "It's alright, Sweetie. I was being a little silly and foolish and angry. It's alright sweetie...what's your name, baby?" "MARLIN!"
11. This singer from Adelaide needs serious therapy. Is always photographed wearing a massive bow in her hair.... the amount of the material used would clothe half the children in Zimbabwe.
Kylie Minogue ✓
Portia de Rossi ✓
Sinead O'Connor ✓
Sia ✓
12. This highly talented artist for decades in the eyes of Australians and Brits achieved his lifelong dream of a knighthood. Alas... it all ended for him when a big branch of a Yewtree crashed down on his didgeridoo.
Roger Waters ✓
Roger Rogerson ✓
Rolf Harris ✓
Roger Moore ✓
13. A high profile NSW police detective whose picture was constantly on the front page of Sydney newspapers, swaggering along with a confiscated shotgun (in flare trousers 😮). Implicated in several murders and attempted murders. Met the NSW premiers of his time with wonderful photo shoots. Died in prison this year serving a life sentence for murder (I did warn him the flares would not look good on the front page).
Rolf Boldrewood ✓
Roger Daltrey ✓
Roger Rogerson ✓
Roger Whitaker ✓
14. This khaki-clad clown thought that being dressed in khaki would get crocodiles to consider compassionately about co-existence with crustaceans and codfish.
Joe Cocker ✓
Jim Croce ✓
Crocodile Dundee ✓
Steve Irwin ✓
15. When the above answer was brutally murdered by an aquatic denizen... what was he looking for?
Lasseter's Reef ✓
Butterfly Fish ✓
The Great Barrier Reef ✓
Who knows? ✓
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