Statistics for Australian cities multiple choice: Ballarat

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What is the most visited tourist attraction in Ballarat?	Sovereign Hill	77%
What's the biggest lake in Ballarat?	Wendouree	77%
Which events of the 1956 Olympic Games were held in Ballarat?	Canoeing and rowing	69%
Why was Ballarat founded?	Gold	69%
What's the name of the castle in Leigh Creek?	Kryal	69%
And which poet managed the stables at Craig's Royal Hotel in the 1860s?	Adam Lindsay Gordon	62%
Where is Prime Minister's Avenue, a rather alarming collection of busts of past Australian Prime Ministers?	Ballarat Botanical Gardens	46%
What was the site of the Eureka Stockade?	Unknown	46%
Which Ballarat feature is the oldest in Australia, and possibly the world?	Avenue of Honour	38%
Ballarat is the site of Australia's biggest trade in...	cattle	38%
Which educational institution has four campuses in Ballarat?	Federation University	38%
Which highway runs north-south through the centre of the city?	Midland	31%
The name Ballarat (originally Ballaarat) comes from the Aboriginal term balla arat, meaning...	resting place	31%
What is Monte Christo?	A bushland reserve	23%
The proprietor of Craig's Royal Hotel also owned which Melbourne Cup winner?	Nimblefoot (1870)	8%