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Australian cities multiple choice: Warrnambool

Are you up on Warrnambool?
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1. Warrnambool is the largest city in the region known as...
the Mallee
the Kimberley
Sunset Country
the Shipwreck Coast
Warrnambool is on the 130km Shipwreck Coast, where about 700 ships have ended their days.
2. Which humorous family film is based on the city's method of protecting the fairy penguins on Middle Island?
BMX Bandits (1983)
Happy Feet (2006)
Red Dog (2011)
Oddball (2015)
The penguins are guarded by maremma dogs, which keep foxes at bay.
3. What is at Flagstaff Hill?
A cemetery
A war memorial
A lookout tower
An open-air history museum
4. What do some enthusiasts believe is buried beneath the sand in Armstrong Bay?
A 16th century mahogany ship
Evidence from a 1920s crime spree
A Japanese mini-sub from the Second World War
The State Parliamentary mace that went missing in 1891
5. What's the Warrnibald Prize?
An athletics carnival
A portrait exhibition and art prize
A beauty pageant for bald people
Best bull at the Warrnambool Agricultural Show
The name is a play on words. The Archibald Prize is a famous Australian prize for portraiture. Both competitions have a people's choice award too; in Warrnambool it's called the Archibool.
6. Warrnambool is in which state?
Victoria
Queensland
Western Australia
New South Wales
7. Why is there a long viewing platform at Logan Beach?
Whale watching
Penguin colonies
Surf life-saving carnivals
The Southern Surfing Classic
They come quite close to shore. June to September is calving season.
8. Which iconic Australian clothing brand was based in Warrnambool from its founding in 1941 until its sale in 1998?
Speedo
Lucas & Co.
Onkaparinga
Fletcher Jones
The staff gardens are still there.
9. What is the nickname of the statue at the war memorial?
Doris
The tin hat
The dirty angel
The desert rats
Her pose looks indecent from some angles.
10. Where is the mendicant's hut?
Miura Friendship Garden
Warrnambool Heritage Works
South Warrnambool Wetlands
Warrnambool & District Base Hospital
11. What is the gap challenge?
A cross-country running track
Parachuting into the Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve
A leap across the junction of Russells Creek and the Merri River
Entering the gap between the brick walls of the bowling alley on Timor Street and the shop next door
The gap is 30cm at its narrowest. There have been rescues. Don't even think about it.
12. Where is Granny's Grave?
St James Park
Evelyn's Common
Our Lady Help of Christians
Warrnambool Foreshore Reserve
It is the grave of Agnes Ruttleton, who died in 1848, and was the first white woman to live and die in the area. Her grave is surrounded by a deck, with seating and an information board.
13. Von Guerard's Lookout provides a panoramic view of Tower Hill, a dormant volcano. What was Eugene von Guerard doing there (in 1855)?
Sketching
Exploring
Propsecting for gold
Surveying for the first map of the area
For his well-known painting 'Tower Hill', now held in the Warrnambool Art Gallery.
14. What's going on at Brierly Basin?
Prawn farming
A floodplain reserve
Australia’s largest array of floating solar panels
Water catchment and irrigation for community gardens
15. Which Nobel Prize winner attended Warrnambool High School?
John Eccles (Medicine, 1963)
Patrick White (Literature, 1973)
Barry Marshall (Medicine, 2005)
Macfarlane Burnet (Medicine, 1960)
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