Statistics for Australian cities multiple choice: Cairns

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Question	Answer	% Correct
When did Tropical Cyclone Jasper hit Cairns?	December 2023	100%
Cairns is in which state or territory?	Queensland	100%
Cairns is in the the country of which Indigenous people?	Yirrganydji	83%
Which river flows through Cairns?	Barron	67%
The world's longest single-day mail run (about 1,450 km) begins in Cairns and ends in...	Cape York	67%
The city was named after...	Colonial administrator William Cairns	67%
After Australia, what are the most common countries of birth of Cairns residents?	England, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines	67%
At the urging of the Commonwealth Government, what did 15,000 Cairns residents do during the Second World War?	Moved away from the region in case of Japanese invasion	67%
The Manunda Hawks, the Port Douglas Crocs and the South Cairns Cutters are teams in the local league of which sport?	AFL	50%
What is Freshwater Station?	A railway station	50%
In the 1940s, which artist lived in the shanty town known as Malaytown?	Donald Friend	50%
Why are there nails in a verandah post outside the Cairns Museum?	They were used to display funeral notices early in the 20th century	50%
The floral emblem of Cairns is the...	Golden Penda	33%
Which is not a suburb of Cairns?	Lamington	17%
Why did Europeans first settle in Cairns?	To fish for bêche-de-mer	17%