Australian and New Zealand Sporting Team Nicknames Quiz

The Flames play basketball in the WNBL (Women's National Basketball League). They have had a few different names since forming as the Bankstown Bruins, in 1981. Karen Dalton and Trish Fallon were team members that represented Australia in Olympic Games.

The team was formed in 2008 and won the title in 2009 and 2010. They play in the Australian Ice Hockey League, and their uniform is blue, red, gold, black. They started life as the Adelaide A's, and added the rest of the letters in their first full season. In 2018, they retired their first number - 22- to honour the long-serving defenceman, Josh Harding.

Perth is the capital of Western Australia and is home to the Perth Glory soccer team. The Glory's predecessor, the Perth Kangaroos, actually participated in the Singapore Premier League, because of the vast distances to the eastern states; Perth is closer to several southeast Asian countries than to most Australian cities.

They then joined the NSL (National Soccer League), which ceased to exist upon the formation of the A-League in 2005. They won the title twice before joining the A-League: 2003 and 2004.

They won their first A-League title in 2019.

The Cairns Taipans replaced the defunct Newcastle Falcons in the National Basketball League (NBL) in the 1999/2000 season. They reached their first NBL Final in 2011, but lost 2-1 to the NZ Breakers in the best-of-three series.

A taipan is a deadly snake, that can grow to over two metres long, so their home court is obviously known as The Snakepit.

The Crusaders are a very successful Rugby Union team, based in Christchurch, on the South Island of New Zealand, a country that is renowned for its prowess in the game. They play in the Super Rugby competition, against teams from Pacific Islands, Australia, and other teams from New Zealand.

Their home ground of Lancaster Park was destroyed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake - they now play at Rugby League Park (rather confusingly!).

Australian Rules is one of four different types of football in Australia (the others being soccer, rugby league and rugby union). Aussie Rules was developed by Tom Wills in 1858, to keep cricketers fit during winter. The Melbourne Demons (1858) and the Geelong Cats (initially called the Pivotonians!), are two of the oldest oldest continually existing clubs in the world, of ANY sport.

Geelong is a large city, about an hour southwest of Melbourne, Victoria.

The Brisbane Firebirds play netball in the Suncorp Super Netball league and also played in the predecessor, the ANZ Championship. They hit a purple patch in the early 2010s, winning three titles and being runners-up twice in five years, and have produced a host of international players.

Netball is similar to basketball in several ways, but has major differences, also. Dribbling is not allowed, contact is not allowed, players are restricted to various parts of the court and there are seven players in action per side. It is mainly played by women, and generally only in Commonwealth countries - Australia, New Zealand, England, Jamaica, South Africa and Trinidad and Tobago being regulars at the World Cup and Commonwealth Games.

For many years, Rugby league was mainly confined to New South Wales and Queensland. Melbourne was the heartland of Australian Rules football but when the Storm was established there in 1998 they had an immediate impact, finishing third in their maiden season, and winning the title in 1999.

In 2010, the club was found guilty of breaching salary caps for the previous five years, and had all honours stripped from them, including the 2007 and 2009 premiership trophies.

The Australian Capital Territory Women cricket team played in the Twenty20 Cup, debuting in 2010. In 2015, that league was replaced by the Women's Big Bash League Prior to the formation of the WNCL (Women's National Cricket League), the team was part of the Australian Women's Cricket Championships. The Meteors have had limited success across all these competitions.

Their home ground, Manuka Oval, is located in the Canberra suburb of Griffith, only a short walk from the nation's Parliament House. They share it with the ACT Comets (men's cricket), and various football codes.

Men's cricket in Tasmania dates back to 1851, when they won the first ever interstate match in Australia, against Victoria. However, because of the difficulties presented by the island's remoteness, competition at the highest level was spasmodic. They were finally admitted into the Sheffield Shield ranks (the interstate competition), in 1977, and have been reasonably successful. They were rebranded at the Tasmanian Tigers in 1991, taking their name, and logo from the extinct Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine.

The Tasmanian cricket team call Bellerive Oval home, moving there in 1986. The oval is also used for Australian Rules football games, during the winter.