AusQuiz: Test your wits
How much do you really know about Australia? Test yourself!
Questions 1
In which state or territory are there mountain ranges called Gibraltar, Nandewar and Liverpool?
2
By what name is the spotted bonytongue also known?
3
More than 80 per cent of Australia’s native forest is dominated by which two tree types?
4
What is the North Face Griffin 75?
5
Near which major city is Brindabella NP?
6
What is the official floral emblem of Queensland?
7
Where in southern Australia is the world’s largest single exposure of limestone bedrock, occupying an area of about 200,000sq.km?
8
In Tasmania, what geographic feature has the names Dip, Guide, Philosopher and Horsetail?
9
Where do the Yamatji people live?
10
Measuring 2508km, what is Australia’s longest river?
11
What type of bird is the Christmas imperial?
12
Can you name an uninhabited Australian island beginning with the letter T?
13
What are stromatolites, which are renowned for their presence in Shark Bay?
14
In which state or territory does Australia’s Indigenous peoples represent 30 per cent of the population?
15
Which animal can be said to scream, bellow or wail?
16
Where was Ned Kelly’s last stand?
17
What is the offspring of a baboon or a gorilla called?
18 Who formed the first Australian women’s suffrage society in Melbourne in 1884?
19
Which song was written by Banjo Paterson in 1895?
20
Where is the lowest point in Australia?
21
What is the male of a hawk or falcon called?
22
Who wrote the bushranger novel
23
Robbery Under Arms?
By total area, how many countries are larger than Australia? 24 In population terms which is larger: Darwin or Hobart?
25
Which came first: the University of Sydney or University of Melbourne? 26 In which Australian language does nyangi mean “any annoying noise” and yuyurungul mean “the noise of a snake sliding through the grass”?
27
Along which Northern Territory geographic feature, within Finke Gorge NP, is the only place in Central Australia where red cabbage palms survive?
28
What is are the collective nouns shared by swallows and cormorants?
29
Which animal do you associate with the adjective aquiline?
30
Which Australian political party was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945?
31
In which state or territory are there rivers called Jerdacuttup, Dandalup and Waychinicup?
32
When is Australia Day?
33
After Tasmania, which is Australia’s second largest island?
34
Which animal can be said to pant-hoot, grunt, scream, chatter, screech or bark?
35
Where is Australia’s oldest surviving large stone arch bridge?
36
In surfing lingo what is a “shark biscuit”?
37
What is known as a bushman’s clock?
38
At 2228m what is the highest point in mainland Australia?
39
What is a marlock or moort?
40 In terms of population, which is the largest city in Australia?
41
At 5500km in length, what is the world’s longest fence?
42
With about 4000 speakers, which is the most spoken Indigenous language in Australia and is spoken in Arnhem Land?
43
What is the female of a wolverine called?
44
In the 1890s, Queensland imported indentured workers from New Caledonia to work in the sugar industry. By what term – now considered offensive – were they known?
45
What is the offspring of a hare called?
46
In Tasmania, what geographic feature has the names Cradle, Meander and Upper Florentine?
47
In which state or territory is the Toolonga Nature Reserve?
49
Who was the first person to lead pack camels 15,000km, including a west–east journey across Australia along the Tropic of Capricorn?
48
What was Australia’s capital city before Canberra?
50
What is Australia’s westernmost territory? (from reader Pauline Bunce of Claremont, WA)