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Australian cities multiple choice: Bunbury

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Last updated: April 22, 2023
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1. In which state or territory is Bunbury?
Queensland ✓
South Australia ✓
Northern Territory ✓
Western Australia ✓
2. What was the purpose of the first settlement of Europeans at Bunbury?
Forestry ✓
A military post ✓
A whaling station ✓
A convict settlement ✓
3. What's in the pink convent at the corner of Wittenoom and Princep streets?
The Sisters of Mercy ✓
Bunbury Catholic College ✓
Bunbury Regional Art Gallery ✓
The Old Convent Hotel and Conference Centre ✓
4. What faces the pink convent across Princep street?
Bunbury City Council ✓
Bunbury Trotting Club ✓
St John of God Bunbury Hospital ✓
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ✓
5. What is between Turkey Point and Pelican Point?
Vittoria Bay ✓
Alexander Island ✓
HMAS Stirling naval base ✓
Bunbury Quarantine Station ✓
6. When was the Bunbury Lighthouse built?
1839 ✓
1852 ✓
1942 ✓
1970 ✓
There were earlier lighthouses, but the current one was built in 1970
7. What is the main cargo exported from the Port of Bunbury?
Grain ✓
Minerals ✓
Livestock ✓
Wood products ✓
8. Koombana Bay is famous for an abundance of...
sharks ✓
abalone ✓
pelicans ✓
dolphins ✓
9. What is Bunbury's nickname?
Bundy ✓
The Burry ✓
Crystal City ✓
City of Three Waters ✓
10. Which ocean rolls by Bunbury?
Arctic ✓
Indian ✓
Pacific ✓
Southern ✓
11. What is the claim to fame of St Nicholas Church in Australind?
It is inside a natural cavern ✓
It is made primarily of seashells ✓
It is the oldest church in Australia ✓
It is the smallest church in Australia ✓
12. What is the name of the nature reserve in South Bunbury?
Dreary Hill ✓
Big Swamp ✓
Woop Woop ✓
Nut Reserve ✓
After the land was used for many years as pasture for livestock, and then market gardens, the original wetlands vegetation was restored.
13. How did the suburb of Australind get its name?
A portmanteau of Australia and India ✓
The name of a clipper ship that was wrecked there in 1842 ✓
It was the name of the first business in the area, a meatworks ✓
From Dutch explorers who thought they had found a separate continent (it is Latin for Another South) ✓
It does happen to mean 'another south' in Latin, but the name was chosen by the first business in the area, a farm that bred horses for the British Army in India
14. What was blown up by 1,000 sticks of gelignite in 1976?
Gelorup Quarry ✓
The woodchip export terminal at the Port of Bunbury ✓
The land bridge between Koombana Bay and Inner Harbour ✓
The former headquarters of the Commercial Banking Company ✓
The bombing was an attempt to halt the destruction of old growth forests
15. Where's the parkour park?
College Grove ✓
Angelsea Island ✓
Maidens Reserve ✓
Koolambidi Woola ✓
The name means ‘celebrating young people’
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