Marvellous Melbourne | 10 Question General Multiple Choice Quiz

Answer: Victoria

William Lamb was Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1834 and also from 1835 to 1841. Queen Victoria ruled from 1837 to 1901. None of the other named monarchs were on the throne at a time when Lamb served as prime minister. William Lamb was also married to Lady Caroline Lamb who was noted for her infatuation with Lord Byron.

Answer: Take a tour of Kapooka, Wagga Wagga

Kapooka is an army base in New South Wales. A little too far for a day trip and definitely not a tourist destination.
Phillip Island is famous for its fairy penguins which come out of the sea and up the sand dunes at dusk to nest.
Puffing Billy is a tourist steam train ride in the Dandenongs in the outer suburbs of Melbourne.
The Great Ocean Road is a wonderful scenic drive and was built during the Great Depression. The Twelve Apostles are very dramatic rock stacks that arise out of the sea along the Great Ocean Road.

Answer: Melbourne Cricket Ground

The Melbourne Cricket Ground or MCG was the main venue of the 1956 Summer Olympics. It is also famous for hosting the Australian Football League Grand Final and the Boxing Day Cricket Test. Princes Park is a football ground in Melbourne. Kooyong is a tennis complex that was the former venue for the Australian Tennis Open. Lords is one of the major cricket grounds in England where many Australian and English teams have battled for 'The Ashes'.

Answer: A department store

Buckleys and Nunn was one of two major department stores located in Bourke Street in Melbourne's city centre; the other being Myer(s). The building is still there but it now houses another department store, David Jones.

Answer: The Royal Exhibition Building

The Royal Exhibition Building was opened in 1880 as the venue for an international exhibition. It was also the site of the first Parliament of Australia from 1901 until 1927 then Canberra became the national capital. It is one of the few great exhibition halls that survives from the nineteenth century. Flinders Street Station, the Shrine of Remembrance and Young and Jacksons are all Melbourne landmarks.

Answer: Chloe

Chloe was painted by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and exhibited at the Paris Salon in the 1870s. The painting came to Australian via Dr Thomas Fitzgerald who loaned the picture to the National Gallery of Victoria. The full length nude portrait shocked visitors so much that the picture was removed from display after only three weeks.

The painting was later purchased by Mr Norman Young, of Young and Jacksons, in 1908, and has been a feature at the hotel ever since.

Answer: Australian Hurling Championship

There is no such competition as the Australian Hurling Championship. Hurling, however, is played in Australia and Melbourne is home to the Melbourne Shamrocks Hurling Club.

Answer: The rush to drink before the bars closed at 6.00 pm.

Six o'clock closing for pubs/bars was introduced in most Australian states during the 1910s. It came into effect in Victoria in 1916. Licensed drinking hours were not extended again in Victoria until 1967.

Answer: Kangaroos in Bourke Street

You are highly unlikely to meet any wild Australian marsupials in the city centre of Melbourne. Bourke Street is home to the Bourke Street Mall which is a congested pedestrian strip that also has trams running through it.

Answer: Swans and Lions

The South Melbourne Swans are now the Sydney Swans. The Fitzroy Lions are now the Brisbane Lions. All the other names are genuine nick names of Australian Football League teams: Geelong Cats, Western Bulldogs, St Kilda Saints, Melbourne Demons, Richmond Tigers and Hawthorn Hawks.