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Australian cities multiple choice: Ballina

Do you know the NSW city of Ballina?
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Last updated: July 15, 2023
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First submittedJuly 14, 2023
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1. In what way is the city centre of Ballina unique among Australian cities and towns?
It covers a whole island ✓
It is inside a national park ✓
It was first settled by Germans ✓
All the streets are one-way roads ✓
2. What's the name of the community radio station?
Paradise ✓
Fresh Air ✓
Heartland ✓
Voice of Ballina ✓
3. Why did the first settlers move to Ballina?
Whaling ✓
To build a road ✓
To cut and mill cedar ✓
To make a wayfaring stop between Sydney and Brisbane ✓
4. What is at Burns Point?
The zoo ✓
A lighthouse ✓
Eagle eyries ✓
A cable ferry ✓
5. There is a plaque, and there used to be a festival, to commemorate which pilot's reaching Australia at Ballina in 1928?
Bert Hinkler ✓
Amelia Earhart ✓
Nancy Bird Walton ✓
Charles Kingsford Smith ✓
6. A Ballina landmark is the world's largest...
prawn ✓
bicycle ✓
merino ✓
banana ✓
7. Why was the railway line closed?
Flood damage ✓
Lack of patronage ✓
It disrupted stock routes ✓
The opening of the Pacific Highway ✓
8. What was the first ship to arrive at the place where Ballina now stands?
HMS Bounty ✓
HMS Supply ✓
HMS Rainbow ✓
HMS Endeavour ✓
9. Ballina is in what region of New South Wales?
Central Coast ✓
Blue Mountains ✓
Northern Rivers ✓
Central Tablelands ✓
10. What is Ballina Byron Gateway?
A hotel ✓
An airport ✓
A freeway ✓
A shopping centre ✓
11. Which of these waterways does not flow through Ballina?
Chickiba Creek ✓
Emigrant Creek ✓
Deadman's Creek ✓
Cabbage Tree Creek ✓
12. Ballina has Australia's smallest what?
Pub ✓
Mosque ✓
Marsupial species ✓
Licensed post office ✓
13. Which river runs through Ballina?
Tweed ✓
Gwydir ✓
Clarence ✓
Richmond ✓
14. The Naval and Maritime Museum features a raft that was sailed to Ballina from which country?
USA ✓
Tonga ✓
France ✓
Ecuador ✓
15. What are Sharpes, Angels and Boulder?
Beaches ✓
Football teams ✓
Shopping centres ✓
Nineteenth century pubs ✓
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