The Australian Traveller Weekend Away Quiz

Put the Scrabble tiles back in the box, hide all smartphones and do not consult Google; it is time to exercise your grey matter the oldfashioned way by guessing, debating and shouting your way through Australian Traveller’s ultimate weekend away quiz.

within 1 What 50 percentage kilometres of of Australians the coast? live

2 What is the second highest mountain in the country?

3 How many Olympic-size swimming pools would it take to fill Sydney Harbour?

4 How many species of fish are there in the Great Barrier Reef – 1625, 5050 or 7500?

5 What other name is Eleanor Nancy Gow known by?

6 How long is the Murray River – 1068 kilometres, 2508 kilometres or 3070 kilometres?

7 What distinction does Prime Minister Frank Forde hold?

8 Which bank note is Banjo Paterson featured on?

9 What is the floral emblem of Australia?

when Scotland? 10 How he old moved was to Jimmy Australia Barnes from

continent 11 True or in false: the world Australia without is the an only active volcano? 12 What is Bluey’s sister’s name? 13 How many Indigenous languages are there: more than 73, 169 or 250? 14 What is the specific reason a kangaroo and an emu are featured on the Coat of Arms? 15 True or false: koalas sleep up to 22 hours per day? 16 What did Australian scientist Dr David Warren invent in 1954? 17 The first images of the 1969 moon landing were beamed to the world from where?

18 If you visited a new beach every day, how many years would it take you to get to them all – five, 13 or 27?

19 Which beach did Prime Minister Harold Holt disappear off in 1967?

20 What does the Aboriginal word bung mean?

21 True or false: Esperance local council fined NASA $400 for littering when debris from its Skylab space station fell back to Earth there in 1979?

22 Name the animal emblems of each state and territory.

23 In what year did the Australian national anthem officially change from God Save The Queen/King to Advance Australia Fair?

24 Who was the first European to land here?

25 What is artist Harold Thomas responsible for designing?