Easy Trivia:1.
Which pop star played the title role in the 2006film
Hating Alison Ashley
?
2.
What is the fauna emblem of Queensland?
3.
What is Australia’s largest inland city?
4.
What Aboriginal term for a waterhole is also thename of an Australian clothing company?
5.
What do the letters of the television network SBS stand for?
6.
What is the name of the original yellow Wiggle?
7.
Which bushranger did Sidney Nolan portray in aseries of paintings he created in 1946-47?
8.
What is the state bird emblem of Queensland?
9.
What finished second to ‘Advance AustraliaFair’ in the 1977 referendum to choose a nationalsong?
10.
What is the state bird emblem of NSW?
1 . D e l t a G o o d r e m
2 . K o a l a
3 . C a n b e r r a
4 . B i l l a b o n g
5 . S p e c i a l B r o a d c a s t i n g S e r v i c e
6 . G r e g P a g e
7 . N e d K e l l y
8 . B r o l g a
9 . ‘ W a l t z i n g M a t i l d a ’
1 0 . K o o k a b u r r a
Hard Trivia:1.
What is the common name of
Ornithorhynchus anatinus
?
2.
Who won the British Open women’s squashtitle a record 16 times?
3.
Which Eureka Stockade leader went on toserve as Speaker of the Victorian Parliament?
4.
What was the name of the character playedby Mel Gibson in
Gallipoli
?
5.
Which former pearling port is the mostwesterly town in Western Australia?
6.
Who became the first Australian of the Year,in 1960?
7.
Which opera singer also won the New SouthWales golf championship three times?
8.
Which Queensland city was known as Elstonuntil 1933?
9.
What was the first album to sell more thanone million copies in Australia?
10.
Who was the first Aus-tralian-born governor-general?
1 . P l a t y p u s
2 . H e a t h e r M c K a y
3 . P e t e r L a l o r
4 . F r a n k D u n n e
5 . D e n h a m
6 . S i r M a c f a r l a n e B u r n e t
7 . J o a n H a m m o n d
8 . S u r f e r s P a r a d i s e
9 . ‘ W h i s p e r i n g ’ J a c k b y J o h n F a r n h a m
1 0 . I s a a c I s a a c s
Hard AnswersEasy Answers
The so-called 'dingo fence' in Australia is the longest fence in the world, and is about twice as long as the Great Wall of China. It has agate every 19kms along it's length.Australia was the 3rd country, after the US and Russia, to launch a satellite into orbit. It was for the British, using a 'Blue Streak' rocket,on 28-10-71Every airliner in the world, and most planes in fact, uses a piece of navigation equipment called DME, or Distance Measuring Equipment.This was invented in Australia in the 1950's.
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