All About Australia! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Steve Bracks

Steve Bracks was the 44th Premier of Victoria and served for three terms.

Answer: Ted Ballieu

Ted Ballieu was the Opposition leader of Victoria in 2006, his political party is the Liberal Party.

Answer: 1901

Since federation, Australia has maintained a stable liberal democratic political system and remains a Commonwealth Realm. The capital city is Canberra, located in the Australian Capital Territory.

Answer: 65,000 years

After sporadic visits by fishermen from the north and by European explorers and merchants starting in the seventeenth century, the eastern half of the mainland was claimed by the British in 1770 and officially settled through penal transportation as the colony of New South Wales on 26th January 1788.

Answer: 20.6 million

The national population of Australia was around 20.6 million people; concentrated mainly in the large coastal cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.

Answer: Latin

The name "Australia" is derived from the Latin word "Australis", meaning of the South. Legends of an "unknown land of the south".

Answer: 1814

The name "Australia" was popularised by the 1814 work "A Voyage to Terra Australis" by the navigator Matthew Flinders, who was the first recorded person to circumnavigate Australia. Despite its title, which reflected the view of the British Admiralty, Flinders used the word "Australia" in the book, which was widely read and gave the term general currency.

Answer: 7,686,850

Australia's 7,686,850 square kilometres (2,967,909 sq. mi) landmass is on the Indo-Australian Plate. Surrounded by the Indian, Southern and Pacific oceans, Australia is separated from Asia by the Arafura and Timor seas. Australia has a total 25,760 kilometres (16,007 mi) of coastline.

Answer: True

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent and a number of islands in the Southern, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.

Answer: Murray River

The Murray River is 2,375 km (1,476 miles) long, the Murrumbidgee River is 1,485 km (923 miles) long, the Darling River is 1,472km (915 miles) long and the Lachlan River is 1,339km (832 miles) long. These are the four longest rivers in Australia.