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Australian cities multiple choice: Maitland

Are you familiar with the New South Welsh city of Maitland?
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Last updated: April 22, 2023
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1. According to a sign at the Walka Water Works, Walka is an Aboriginal word meaning...
River ✓
Flat land ✓
Home of the eels ✓
Resting place by the water ✓
2. Who or what are the Berro Boots?
A pair of giant ugg boots outside a sheepskin factory ✓
The local men's soccer team in the NSW League Two ✓
A group of tap dancers who came second on 'Australia's Got Talent' ✓
A type of boot, made in Maitland, that became the prototype for classic Australian work boots ✓
3. Morpeth Museum focuses on...
local history ✓
bushrangers ✓
paddle steamers ✓
Indigenous flora and fauna of NSW ✓
4. Whom are the Paterson River, Paterson's Plains and Paterson Road named after?
Poet Banjo Paterson ✓
Politician Fred Paterson ✓
Colonel William Paterson ✓
Squatter Stephen Paterson ✓
5. The first Europeans to camp in the area arrived in 1816. Why were they there?
Logging cedar ✓
Propsecting for gold ✓
Looking for an inland sea ✓
On the run from a convict settlement ✓
6. Where can you board a train bound for Newcastle?
Tarro ✓
Gillieston ✓
Maitland Park ✓
East Maitland Station ✓
7. Built in 1844, Maitland Gaol is a museum that features ghost tours, a boutique beer festival, and a seniors festival. When was it last used as a prison?
1945 ✓
1967 ✓
1998 ✓
2015 ✓
8. What were the Maitland Pumpkin Pickers?
A trade union ✓
A rugby league club ✓
A 1960s/70s folk band ✓
A children's theatre group ✓
9. Who's the most famous person buried in the East Maitland cemetery?
Ben Hall ✓
Les Darcy ✓
Ruth Cracknell ✓
Caroline Chisholm ✓
10. What's in Brough House?
A maternity hospital ✓
The central branch of the Maitland City Library ✓
The Australian Museum of Clothing and Textiles ✓
Regional studios of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ✓
11. It is not really known, but Maitland is most likely named after...
A road in Sydney ✓
A village in Northumberland, England ✓
Scottish naval officer Frederick Maitland ✓
The ship that brough many of the town's early settlers to Australia ✓
12. Which of these is not a suburb of Maitland?
Lorn ✓
Aberglasslyn ✓
West Maitland ✓
Horseshoe Bend ✓
13. A distinctive shed in Tenambit is covered in advertising for....
Heads Cordial ✓
Country Road clothing ✓
Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills ✓
Maitland & District Cricket Association ✓
14. Which river flows through Maitland?
Tweed ✓
Hunter ✓
Murray ✓
Lachlan ✓
15. Built in 1879, the heritage listed building at 47 Church Street has been used as a private school, a Masonic lodge, a dance hall and a mechanics' workshop. What was its original function?
Bank ✓
Synagogue ✓
Temperance hall ✓
Doss house for swagmen ✓
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