1. What is the longest river in Australia?
2. In what year did Australia win the America’s Cup?
3. In what year was Vegemite invented?
4. Which famous poem contains the line "I love a sunburnt country"?
5. Name the first album by Australian rock legends Powderfinger.
6. Who is the author of children’s favourite Possum Magic?
7. What is the most easterly point in Australia?
8. Who was the pavlova named after?
9. How many stars are there on the Australian flag?
10. Which Australian animals feature on the country’s coat of arms?
11. On what date did Prime Minister Kevin Rudd officially apologise to the Aboriginal people?
12. Who invented the Hill’s Hoist clothesline?
13. Which famous Australian rock tune was last year found to have infringed copyright of the nursery rhyme Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree?
14. What is Dame Edna Everage’s favourite flower?
15. What year do we associate with Gallipoli?
16. Which Wiggles band member comes from Casino?
17. Who did poet Banjo Paterson marry?
18. Who was Australia’s first female premier?
19. Australia Day celebrates what event?
20. Who wrote The Loaded Dog?
21. In what year did Sir Henry Parkes give his federation speech in Tenterfield?
22. Who is Australia’s top Olympic medal winner?
23. Who won the men’s singles in the 2011 Australian Open?
24. What is the name of the biggest star on the Australian flag?
25. Who was the last man hanged in Australia?
26. Who dictated the Jerilderie letter?
27. Who was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal?
28. Which popular Australian singer wrote the book How to Make Gravy?
29. Name Australia’s floral emblem.
30. In what year did Prime Minister Harold Holt disappear from Cheviot Beach in Victoria?
31. How many test cricket centuries did Sir Donald Bradman make?
32. In what year was the film Crocodile Dundee released?
33. What song are the lyrics “I'm goin' nowhere and I'm in a hurry, and the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone” from?
34. Who made pumpkin scones famous?
35. Who painted Blue Poles?
36. Who wrote Waltzing Matilda?
37. When did surf lifesaving begin?
38. What is the world’s largest natural structure?
39. What town was the film Red Dog set in?
40. What is the best-selling album of all time in Australia?
The answers
1. The Murray River is 2375km long. 2. 1983 3. 1922 4. “My Country, by Dorothea Mackellar
5. Internationalist 6. Mem Fox
7. Cape Byron, Byron Bay 8. Russian dancer Anna Pavlova 9. Six
10. The red kangaroo and the emu 11. February 13, 2008 12. Australian Lance Hill in 1945. 13. Men at Work’s Land Down Under
14. The gladioli. 15. 1915 16. Jeff Fatt 17. Alice Walker of Tenterfield 18. Dr Carmen Lawrence in WA in 1990. 19. The landing of the First Fleet in Sydney 20. Henry Lawson 21. October 24, 1889 22. Swimmer Ian Thorpe with nine medals – five gold, three silver and one bronze. 23. Novak Djokovic 24. Federation Star 25. Ronald Ryan 26. Ned Kelly 27. Nova Perris-Kneebone in hockey in 1996. 28. Paul Kelly 29. The golden wattle. 30. 1967 31. 29
32. 1986 33. Khe Sanh, by Cold Chisel 34. Lady Florence Bjelke-Petersen 35. Jackson Pollock
36. Banjo Paterson 37. In 1906 in Sydney. 38. The Great Barrier Reef 39. Dampier, in Western Australia 40. Whispering Jack by John Farnham. The 1986 album has sold about 1.7 million copies.
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