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Tasmania Trivia

Can you guess these facts about the Australian state of Tasmania?
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Last updated: March 24, 2021
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First submittedMay 21, 2020
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State capital
Hobart
Dutch explorer after whom Tasmania is named
Abel Tasman
Most common nickname of Tasmania
The Apple Isle
Strait that separates Tasmania and mainland Australia
Bass Strait
Second most populous city
Launceston
Colloquial name of Tasmania
Tassie
Carnivorous marsupial
Tasmanian Devil
Striped carnivore that went extinct in 1936
Tasmanian Tiger
Town in which a lone gunman named Martin Bryant, shot and killed 35 people
Port Arthur
Former name of Tasmania
Van Diemen's Land
The "United Tasmania Group" was world's first political party with this ideology
Green Politics
Name one of the four largest islands of Tasmania after Tasmania itself.
Flinders | King |
Cape Barren | Bruny
Mary Donaldson from Tasmania is now the Crown Princess of this European country
Denmark
Period of unrest that nearly annihilated Tasmania's indigenous
population between mid-1820s–1832
Black War
If Tasmania was a separate country, this would place it as the 21st _____ country in
the world, on a GDP per capita basis
Richest
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Level 72
May 26, 2020
Holiday Day?
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Level 72
May 26, 2020
Ooops. Fixed it now.
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Level 60
Mar 24, 2021
Shouldn't it be "Name one of THE four largest islands?" You have 'these'.

Great quiz though, nominated.

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Level 72
Mar 24, 2021
Fixed.
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Level 53
Jun 7, 2021
Port arthur isn't really a town, it's a historical site. It once was a convict settlement with a small town for mostly guards and other prison-related peoples.