Statistics for Australia - Multiple Choice #1

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Who was Ned Kelly?	A bushranger	100%
Which bird is something you don't want to meet unexpectedly in a dense forest?	A cassowary	100%
Who or what was Bass Strait named for?	An explorer	100%
What is a yowie?	A species of bunyip	100%
Which city/town on the Western Australia coast is closest to Perth?	Bunbury	100%
To 'shout' in a hotel means?	Buy the drinks for your group of friends/associates	100%
Northernmost point of mainland Australia	Cape York Peninsula	100%
Leading World War II fighter ace.	Clive Caldwell	100%
What cute animal inhabits the Great Australian Bight?	Great White Shark	100%
Why was the site where Canberra is situated chosen for the capital?	It is roughly (remarkably roughly) midway between Sydney and Melbourne, the two biggest contenders for the throne	100%
Which 'Australian' celebrity is despised by most Australians?	It's even money on all three	100%
Founder of The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS)	John Flynn	100%
Born in Melbourne to German Jewish parents from the Prussian province of Posen. He spoke, read and wrote German fluently. Met Ned Kelly in Jerilderie, NSW in1879. Considered one of the best allied generals of WWI. Australia's most competent and famous military commander.	John Monash	100%
Where would you most likely find gold?	Kalgoorlie	100%
Soldier, gold prospector. Tall tale teller? This colourful character claimed to have found a massively rich, gold reef in central Australia. He perished on an expedition to relocate it, in 1931. His name has gone down in Australian legend along with bunyips, drop bears, kadaitcha and yowies.	Lewis (Harold) Lasseter	100%
White Cliffs NSW, Lightning Ridge NSW, Coober Pedy SA and Andamooka SA are towns famous for what?	Opals	100%
Which state is largest in area?	Queensland	100%
Rottnest Island, 11 miles west of Fremantle, Western Australia has a population of macropods that Dutch sea captain Willem de Vlamingh thought were rats. What are these cuter than a koala thingies called?	Quokka	100%
Southernmost point of mainland Australia	South Point (Wilson's Promontory)	100%
Besides his brother Dan, who else was with Ned Kelly at the Glenrowan Inn, Victoria in a gun battle with the police in 1880?	Steve Hart and Joe Byrne	100%
The 'Battle of the Coral Sea' was a naval donnybrook between	The Japanese Navy and the USN	100%
What is a 'warrigal'?	A dingo	0%
The town of Stuart in the Northern Territory was named for explorer John McDouall Stuart. The name was changed in 1933. What is the town called now?	Alice Springs	0%
If a man walked into an Australian's camp wearing a crocodile skin vest with a hat band adorned with crocodile teeth... AND a f..king BOWIE knife on his belt... what would an Australian do?	Any one of the above. They would all probably get him out of your area	0%
Bushranger. Considered one of the more decent in his chosen life because he never took a life personally although some of his associates did. Shot to pieces after fleeing a police ambush in 1865.	Ben Hall	0%
Born in Bundaberg, this aviator was the first to fly solo from England to Australia.	Bert Hinkler	0%
Mount Gambier in South Australia has four volcanic craters nearby that all once contained lakes. Two are now dry. What are the two remaining lakes?	Blue Lake and Valley Lake	0%
In this town in NSW, in the 1970s, the suicide rate was so alarming that even the state capital sent their best news reporters out to investigate. Name the town.	Broken Hill	0%
Easternmost point of mainland Australia	Cape Byron	0%
Which city/town on the Queensland coast is furthest north?	Cooktown	0%
This bushranger was the most villainous and infamous of the lot. Highly likely he was insane. Dennis Hopper portrayed him in a1976 feature film. Very fitting. It is said in certain circles that Dennis Hopper was not exactly the epitome of mental stability, to be sure.	Daniel Morgan	0%
Are 'drop bears' real?	Depends on how much you have been drinking or smoking	0%
Which suburb of Sydney has the most rich people?	Double Bay	0%
Witch town in Western Australia brings to mind tidying up your house?	Emu Scrubs	0%
Prolific writer. Wrote about anything and everything Australian.	Frank Clune	0%
Which Budapest-born Australian, in the mathematical field of graph theory, invented a snark with 50 vertices and 75 edges?	George Szekeres	0%
The light aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne never fired a shot in anger but had a disturbing propensity for cutting friendly destroyers in half. In peacetime too! Name the RAN victim (1964, 82 Australian sailors killed) and the USN victim (1969, 74 American sailors killed).	HMAS Voyager and USS Frank E. Evans	0%
If you are bitten by a Taipan... what are the most likely things that you will do?	If you are bitten on a finger or a thumb, remove that digit ASAP with your Bowie knife or your straight razor.Throw up and evacuate your bowels as quickly as possible out of ear-shot of the pretty, little, red-headed girl from Vermont in the camp next to yours.	0%
Where did Paul Hogan say he was born to make him look like a tough, bronzed Aussie from the bush?	Lightning Ridge	0%
German explorer who disappeared mysteriously in Queensland in 1848. The river that runs through Mount Isa, Queensland and a Sydney suburb are named for him.	Ludwig Leichhardt	0%
The Tiwi Islands, north of the Northern Territory and part of that happy place consist of two big islands and nine smaller, uninhabited ones. What are the names of the big brothers?	Melville Island and Bathurst Island	0%
Who wrote 'The Tree of Man'?	Pat White	0%
Former detective sergeant in the NSW Police Force. He was implicated in two murders, bribery, assault and drug trafficking. No convictions. He is now serving a life sentence for murder, drug trafficking and perverting the course of justice.	Roger Rogerson	0%
Bundaberg, Queensland is famous for	Rum	0%
Which state is Iron Knob in?	South Australia	0%
Westernmost point of mainland Australia	Steep Point (Shark Bay)	0%
What is the capital of the Torres Strait Islands?	Thursday Island	0%
What are kadaitcha?	Tribal executioners	0%
This NSW town has a sister city in Kansas. Name the NSW town and its American sibling counterpart	Wagga Wagga and Leavenworth	0%
What town on the Gulf of Carpentaria is known for bauxite mining?	Weipa, Queensland	0%
In which state is Denmark?	Western Australia	0%
There is a town in New South Wales with the indigenous name Wagga Wagga (pronounced Wogga Wogga). How does it translate in English?	'Where's that five o'clock wave then, cuz?'	0%