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Australian cities multiple choice: Townsville

How much do you know about the magnetic city of Townsville?
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Last updated: April 25, 2023
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1. Queensland is big, eh? Nearly seven times bigger than Texas. Townsville is in:
North Queensland ✓
Central Queensland ✓
Far North Queensland ✓
Southeast Queensland ✓
2. How did Townsville get its name?
After a town in Wales ✓
Three neighbouring towns were gazetted together to form a new city ✓
After American architect Ithiel Town, who designed the central streetscape ✓
After Robert Towns, who financed the first white settlement but never lived there himself ✓
3. Townsville is home to Australia's largest...
clock ✓
army base ✓
botanic garden ✓
desalination plant ✓
4. Which disease was first identified from samples taken in Townsville?
Hendra virus ✓
Dengue Fever ✓
Ross River Fever ✓
Australian Bat Lyssavirus ✓
5. How far short of being a mountain is Castle Hill?
5.8 metres ✓
18.9 metres ✓
27.1 metres ✓
0.12 metres ✓
6. Townsville cannot be said to border which body of water?
Coral Sea ✓
Torres Strait ✓
Cleveland Bay ✓
South Pacific Ocean ✓
7. How did Magnetic Island get its name?
It is shaped like a horseshoe magnet ✓
Its freshwater streams contain a species of electric eel ✓
There are significant iron concentrations in the island's soil ✓
James Cook's compass mysteriously went haywire as he sailed past in 1770 ✓
8. What was established in Townsville in 1896?
James Cook University ✓
Australia's first Ferris wheel ✓
The first Japanese consulate in Australia ✓
The first Woolworths family grocery store ✓
9. Townsville is the only place in the world that is a base for what three activities?
Copper, zinc and nickel refining ✓
Scuba diving, bungee jumping and rock climbing ✓
The licensed sale of gold, cattle, and tropical fish ✓
The manufacture of helicopters, motorcycles and satellites ✓
10. Which of the following is held annually in Townsville?
The Festival of Horsepower ✓
Race Week Festival of Sailing ✓
The Northern Craft Beer Festival ✓
The Australian Festival of Chamber Music ✓
11. The suburb of Belgian Gardens used to have a different name. Why was it changed?
The original name, German Gardens, went out of favour during WWI ✓
To honour King Leopold II, who paid a brief visit to the region in 1870 ✓
To improve the reputation of the area previously known as Crocodile Bay ✓
When the area known as Sandy Point was gazetted in 1910, it was named after the first people to settle there, several Belgian farming families ✓
12. What was the Townsville mutiny?
A series of protests by unemployed returned soldiers in 1919 ✓
A riot because beer supplies ran out when floods isolated the city in 1892 ✓
A rebellion of hundreds of African American troops stationed there during WWII ✓
A 1938 dockworkers' strike protesting the export of pig iron from Australia to Japan ✓
13. Which is closest to Townsville?
Brisbane ✓
The equator ✓
Honiara, Solomon Islands ✓
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea ✓
14. The library at the Townsville campus of James Cook University is named after which former university employee?
Linguist Robert Dixon ✓
Gardener Eddie Mabo ✓
Chemist Leonard Lindoy ✓
Zoologist Rhondda Jones ✓
15. Australia's first medical research institute was established in Townsville in 1913 under the name:
Caritas Health and Hospice Care ✓
Herbert Institute for Medical Research ✓
Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine ✓
Royal Queensland Institute of Disease Control ✓
comjag
+1
Level 90
Sep 24, 2022
Bloody hell, these questions are definitely on point! Fun quiz.
Zupity
+2
Level 66
Sep 24, 2022
Thank you, that's kind. Today is the day of Geelong. Release the quiz.
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