Statistics for Australia Multiple Choice

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What is the capital of Australia?	Canberra	94%
Located on the coast of Queensland, world's largest coral reef goes under which name?	Great Barrier Reef	93%
What is the largest and capital city of the Northern Territory?	Darwin	81%
What is the biggest immigrant language of Australia?	Mandarin	67%
On the first day of which year was Australia announced its independence from the British?	1901	62%
Which one of these does NOT appear on the Australian coat of arms?	Koala	62%
What is the approximate population of Australia as of 2018?	25 million	60%
What is the historical European name for the mainland Australia?	New Holland	60%
Who is NOT Australian from these celebs?	Peter Jackson	56%
Which one of these states does Australia's longest river, the Murray River, NOT run through?	Queensland	47%
True or False? - There are less kangaroos than people in Australia	False	43%
The longest national highway in the world goes all around the Australian coast. What is its name?	Highway 1	41%
What is the name of the peninsula in the northeast?	Cape York	39%
Between the years of 1788 and 1868, around 162,000 people were sent to Australia from Britain. What kind of people were they?	Convicts	38%
Australia was inhabited by indigenous people for about how many years before the Europeans arrived?	50,000 years	37%
What does "Crossing the Ditch" mean in Australia?	Travelling from Australia to New Zealand or vice verse	33%
Who was the first known European to have explored Australia?	Willem Janszoon	10%