Question 01 – I can’t decide! ↑
Question
What is the capital of Australia?
A. Sydney
B. Melbourne
C. Canberra, or
D. Brisbaine?
Answer
C. Canberra
Canberra is a city that was designed from scratch.
It became the capital because they could not decide between Sydney and Melbourne.
Question 02 – Sailing away ↑
Question
What is this building in Sydney?
A. Art Gallery
B. Cinema
C. Hotel
D. Concert venue?
Answer
D. Concert Venue
It is the Sydney Opera House.
It is modelled after the sails of a boat.
A very famous building in Sydney, Australia.
Question 03 – Who was there first? ↑
Question
Who lived in Australia first?
A. Aborigines
B. Chinese
C. Indians
D. Japanese
Answer
A. Aborigines.
They were there for hundreds of years before Europeans.
Aborgine means "without origin" : early Europeans did not know where they came from.
Question 04 – Digereedon’t ↑
Question
What do you do with this?
A. Hit people with it?
B. Play it?
C. Shoot poison darts through it?
D. Blow air into a fire with it?
Answer
B. Play It!
It is a didgeridoo, which aborigines blow through to make music.
Question 05 – It will come back to me ↑
Question
What do Aborigines use boomerangs mainly for?
A. Playing games?
B. Holding food over a fire?
C. Hunting and fighting?
D. Decoration on a wall?
Answer
C. Hunting and fighting!
The originals had a short end. They could fly a long way silently over the ground and hit prey unawards.
Question 06 – The desert mountain ↑
Question
What do the Aborigine's call Ayres Rock?
A. Uhuru
B. Uluru
C. Umbongo
D. Urdu
Answer
B. Uluru
It is a sacred site, and tourists are no longer permitted to climb it.
No one knows what the name means.
It is sacred because it offers water and cave shelter.
It was created when lava exploded under the earth and caused a huge chunk of the ground to flip over!
Question 07 – Jump to it ↑
Question
How fast can a Kangaroo run?
A. 22 mph
B. 34 mph
C. 44 mph
D. 54 mph
Answer
B. 34 mph
They can cover a distance of 9 meters in one jump, and jump as high as three meters!
In ancient times (millions of years ago) a Kangaroo was three meters tall, and a duck was the size of a small horse!
Question 08 - Sport ↑
Question
What are the ashes, which the English and Australian cricket teams compete for?
A. The burned remains of a cricket bat.
B. The burned remains of a cricket bail.
C. The burned remains of a cricket ball.
D. The burned remains of an umpire!
Answer
B. The burned remains of cricket stumps.
They represent the the "ashes" of English cricket, when Australia first won in England!
Question 09 – Stone the crows ↑
Question
What is the famous gemstone mined in Coober Pedy?
A. Opal
B. Diamond
C. Emerald
D. Ruby
Answer
A. Opal
They build their homes in the caves left by mining!
Many people hunt for missed opals in the rubble left over from mining - this is called FOSSICKING.
Question 10 – Run Away! ↑
Question
What is the most dangerous Australian animal?
A. Great White Shark
B. Box Jelly Fish
C. Eastern Brown Snake
D. Crocodile
E. Funnel Web Spider
Answer
B. Box Jellyfish
A sting can immobilise and kill you in 5 minutes.
The spider can kill in 30 minutes. They are often found under toilet seats, so check!
The snake is responsible for most snake kills, and its venom can kill in an hour.
The crocodile has the most powerful bite, and loves to eat humans. Poke its eyes hard to escape.
Only 1 person dies a year from a shark attack - you are more likely to win the lottery - twice.
Question 11 – Don’t forget your bucket and spade ↑
Question
How many beaches does Australia have?
A. 1000
B. 2000
C. 5,000
D. 10,000
Answer
D. 10,000
It would take you 29 years to visit them all!
Question 12 – Sleeping on the job ↑
Question
What do the Aborigine's call the beginning of their people a long time ago?
A. Dreamtime?
B. Snoozetime?
C. Sleeptime?
D. Playtime?
Answer
A. Dreamtime?
They believe it is the time when the people and the land were made by spirits. The spirits then watch over them from the caves, trees, water holes and skies.
The art describes aspects of their life and environment.
Fire dreaming:
Water dreaming (very important in the deserts of Australia):
Question 13 – Fenced Off ↑
Question
How long is the Australian Dingo fence?
A. 100 miles
B. 3000 miles
C. 500 miles
D. 50 miles
Answer
B. 3,000
Dingos are wild dogs. It keeps them away from the sheep which Australian's farm.
Question 14 – Mountain out of a molehill ↑
Question
What creature made this?
A. Humans, with a bucket and spade?
B. Kangaroos, jumping up with mud.
C. Termites
D. Spiders
Answer
C. Termites
They are the largest non-human buildings in the world.
The termites are tiny!
Question 15 – Bugged Out ↑
Question
What would you do with a witchety grub?
A. Run away!
B. Put it on a wound?
C. Put it in someone's bed to scare them?
D. Eat it
Answer
D. Eat it!
They are very nutricious and live inside the bark of witchetty trees. You can eat them live (except the head).
You can put maggots in a wound to eat dead tissue away.
Question 16 – The streets are paved with? ↑
Question
This coast is known as the:
A. Stone Coast
B. Gold Coast
C. Silver Coast
D. Opal Coast
Answer
B. Gold Coast.
It is called this because people are willing to spend a lot of money for a house there.
Question 17 - Landscape ↑
Question
These rocks are known as:-
A. The Three Sisters
B. The Three Amigos
C. The Three Little Pigs
D. The Three Musketeers
Answer
A. The Three Sisters
Aborgine legend is that three sisters were turned to stone by a wizard to protect them from being killed in a battle.
Unfortunately the wizard was killed before he could turn them back.
They are in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney.
They are blue because of the colour caused by the eucalyptus trees.
Question 18 – Hard to bear ↑
Question
What is the star constellation on the Australian flag:
A. Hercules
B. The Southern Cross
C. Ursa Major (The Great Bear)
D. Orion
Answer
A. The Southern Cross
It is a constellation of the southern sky that is centred on four bright stars in a cross-shaped asterism commonly known as the Southern Cross. It lies on the southern end of the Milky Way's visible band. The name Crux is Latin for cross.
Question 19 – What time is it ↑
Question
Because the world is a globe different parts of the world have different times of day, going east and west, and very big places can have different times in one country!
How many time zones are in Australia:
A. 1
B. I don’t have time for this.
C. 6
D. 3
Answer
Question 20 – Where shall we settle ↑
Question
How much of Australia’s population lives next to the sea?
25%
45%
65%
85%
Answer
A. 85%
Most of Australia is uninhabitable desert.
Question 21 – Are we there yet? ↑
Question
How long is the longest road in Australia?
100 miles long
600 miles long
1000 miles long
9000 miles long?
Answer
9000 miles long (15 x longer than our country!)
It is called Highway 1.
It is the longest road in the world.
Question 22 – Don’t put your foot in it! ↑
Question
Which shoes were invented in Australia?
Crocs
UGGs
Shark Slides
Answer
UGG boots!
They were originally a sheep skin boot made by Australian sheep farmers, because they did not rot. They were called “ugg” because someone thought they looked “ugly”.
Question 23 – It hat to be! ↑
Question
Why do Australians wear corked hats in the countryside?
To keep their skin healthy in the dry air, the corks gently massage the face.
To keep them awake in the heat, the corks tickle their faces.
To keep off the flies.
As a fashion item?
Answer
To keep of the flies!
There are a lot of flies in the outback, and they like human sweat, which has salt in it.
Question 24 – Jump For Joy ↑
Question
What is special about Kangaroos?
They can jump over a bus?
They cannot walk backwards?
They sleep standing up?
Answer
They cannot walk backwards!
There are more Kangaroos than people in Australia!
Question 25 – Don’t Get The Hump ↑
Question
Are there more camels in Australia or Saudi Arabia?
Answer
Australia.
They were imported to work, and are now wild.
Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
Question 26 – Holy Koala! ↑
Question
What was the city of Melbourne originally called?
Penguin Village
Batmania.
Robin Town
Answer
Batmania!
It was named after its founder, John Batman (yes for real!).
It did not last long.
The aborigines call it Naarm.
Question 27 – The horns of a dilemma ↑
Question
What is this animal called?
A. The Darwin Devil
B. The Coober Pedy Devil
C. The Great Barrier Devil
D. The Tasmanian Devil
Answer
D. The Tasmanian Devil
They eat dead birds and animals.
