Featured Quizzes
User Quizzes
Create Quiz
Data and Charts
Badges and Games
About JetPunk
JetPunk Shop
Dark Mode
Australian cities multiple choice: Geelong
Do you know the quiet achiever, Geelong?
Rate:
Last updated: October 14, 2023
You have not attempted this quiz yet.
More quiz info >>
| First submitted | September 24, 2022 |
| Times taken | 33 |
| Average score | 40.0% | Report this quiz | Report |
3:00
The quiz is paused. You have remaining.
Scoring
You scored / = %
This beats or equals
% of test takers
also scored 100%
The average score is
Your high score is
Your fastest time is
Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
1.
Geelong is the second largest city in which state?
Victoria
✓
Tasmania
✓
South Australia
✓
Western Australia
✓
2.
Which of these was not invented in Geelong?
The ute
✓
Barbed wire
✓
The refrigerator
✓
The rotary clothes line
✓
3.
In the 1990s there was a financial crisis in Geelong when what institution collapsed?
HIH Insurance
✓
The Corio Port Authority
✓
The Geelong City Council
✓
The Pyramid Building Society
✓
4.
The Geelong Football Club, founded 1859, are known as the...
Cats
✓
Sharks
✓
Cougars
✓
Dolphins
✓
5.
Which of these celebrities did not grow up in Geelong?
Nick Cave
✓
Guy Pearce
✓
Portia de Rossi
✓
Chrissy Amphlett
✓
6.
The Barwon river gets its name from
A Wathawurrung word meaning magpie
✓
The first family of squatters to take up land by the river
✓
The name of the cartographer who laid out the design of the city
✓
The river in Donnington, Lincolnshire, the home town of Matthew Flinders
✓
7.
Which of the following was not a student at Geelong Grammar School?
King Charles
✓
Rupert Murdoch
✓
General Sir John Monash
✓
Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin
✓
8.
The university based in Geelong is...
Deakin
✓
Gordon
✓
Federation
✓
Charles Sturt
✓
9.
In the 19th century, Geelong's nickname was
Surf City
✓
The Pivot
✓
Tallowtown
✓
The Woolshed
✓
10.
Which international company has not been a major employer in Geelong
IBM
✓
Ford
✓
Shell
✓
Alcoa
✓
11.
What does Geelong have in common with Cape Town, Buenos Aires and Montreal?
They were all founded in 1838
✓
They are UNESCO Cities of Design
✓
They all made a bid to host the 1976 Olympic Games
✓
Each became the home of an emigrant son or daughter of Charles Dickens
✓
12.
What's in the old woolstore in Moorabool Street?
The National Wool Museum
✓
The Barwon Textiles Workshop
✓
The Geelong Tourist Information Bureau
✓
The Gordon Institute of Technical and Further Education
✓
13.
Moorabool is a Wathawurrung word meaning what?
Wind
✓
Monster
✓
Seawater
✓
Sea breeze
✓
14.
What was the function of the large ball erected above the tower of Geelong Telegraph Station in 1862?
It was a beacon to guide ships to the port
✓
It would rise and fall with barometric pressure
✓
It protected the telegraph wires from lightning
✓
It was dropped every day at 1pm as a time signal
✓
15.
The barcode fountain at the Waterfront Art Trail reproduces the barcode of which iconic Geelong company?
Cotton On clothing
✓
Noddy's soft drinks
✓
Godfrey Hirst carpets
✓
Phosphate Co-operative Company of Australia
✓
New and Popular
Save Your Progress
Australian cities
Quiz series by Zupity
...
Copyright H Brothers Inc, 2008–2024
Contact Us | Go To Top | View Mobile Site
One correction: I'm pretty sure Malcolm Fraser went to Melbourne Grammar School, not Geelong Grammar School.