Australian True or False

The rabbit fence was in a completely different state to the dingo fence

Emus might be 1 - 0 vs Australians, but koalas are 0 - 1 against human-caused climate change. We're making a comeback.

Uninformed comment is uninformed.

It actually is partially due to climate change, massive chunks of Koala habitats were burnt down during the 2020 bushfires, which were escalated by climate change.

Fun quiz - and it would've been hilarious if you had made up that wombat fact!

BTW, why more than 9 minutes to complete it? 3 - 4 would be enough I'd imagine.

Feeling really stupid for getting the swimming one wrong. It's just like swimming the English Channel! . . . more than 100 times.

The company I work for has a small office in Berkeley, CA, but the main offices are elsewhere. On April 1st one year, the CA office sent an all staff email congratulating one of its employees for swimming from Berkeley to Sacramento on a regular basis for meetings. They claimed he did it weekly to help us meet our sustainability goals. Many, many others outside of CA fell for it, and sent their kudos. The distance between the two cities is about 90 miles. I thought their April Fool's joke was brilliant.

Your comment has actually made me think that I didn't know the actual distance between Australia and New Zealand, so I made the measurement on Gologle Earth. Turns out the Tasman Sea is 1.488 km wide! That, and the fact that the waters are very deep, are probably the reasons why Australia was colonized by Homo Sapiens before Europe, while New Zealand remained uninhabited until the late Middle Ages. I LOVE these quiz.

Why would you swim when you can walk across the bridge ;)

I thought it may have been possible with a support team, that would perhaps allow someone to swim for a few hours a day and rest and sleep on a boat. Of course, come to think of it, that wouldn't really be a verifiable record, as the supporting boat would inevitably drift somewhat while the swimmer is on it, but someone has apparently crossed the Atlantic Ocean that way.

I'm a big fan of this quiz, great mix of questions here.

Why? The quiz is about Australia, not Australia and New Zealand.

100% as a Brit :)

Great quiz, isn't the timer too generous though?

OMG! 50% of people think it's possible to swim from Australia to New Zealand.

Why? It's only like swimming from New York to Orlando - except generally rougher

Well, no. It's like it, but in dogwater.

Who all are here after watching the beautiful Border-Gavaskar series?

Please don't mention that!

Sore subject Down Under

Um, has Quizmaster actually had kangaroo meat in Australia? Or did he just make the "delicious" thing up?

Kangaroo meat is delicious though

Source: I'm Australian.

It's pretty similar to beef.

Source: Also Australian

ive had croc and its amazing

Yeah, imo croc is better than kangaroo (just)

Finished with 8:56 left although I'm Australian. Maybe half the time?

Aced it!

It's a bit pedantic, I'll admit, but I think the snakebite question is too vague. It should refer to "documented" snake bite deaths. There are undoubtedly people in remote regions that die of snakebite, whose deaths are unrecorded on official rolls.

They may not add up to the hundreds, but they are unquestionably there.

No there aren't, because then you'd have hundreds of recorded missing people in remote regions every year.

The statement was false anyway. So it didn't really matter if it said brand or company, because it's neither chocolate, nor a company.

It would have been more interesting if the statement was: "Shapes is a popular biscuit company" and the answer was false because it's technically not a company...

6/15 I’m not Australian so I just guessed all of them!