Australia for Experts Trivia

1. Scobie Breasley (Jockey), Wayne Carey (VFL/AFL), Geoff Lawson (Cricket) and John Langford (RU)were all born in which town?

From Quiz Interesting Facts About Australia

Answer: Wagga Wagga

Scobie Breasley is probably best known for his major racing wins in the UK and Europe. He rode many winners for Elizabeth II and is believed to have told her on one occasion that Wagga is so wonderful that they named it twice.

From Quiz Australia - The Land Of Big Things

Answer: Big Muffler

The Big Muffler is found in Southport, Queensland. It was made to advertise a shop on the Gold Coast called "Gold Coast Mufflers". It is so big it only narrowly misses the power lines.

From Quiz Australian General Knowledge

Answer: Pauline Hanson

In the late 90's, Pauline Hanson was the leader of the controversial One Nation Party. She became widely known for two particular catch phrases after a 1996 interview by Tracey Curro of the 60 Minutes program. Asked by interviewer "Are you xenophobic?" Hanson's response was "Please explain". She apparently did not understand the meaning of the word. Later in the same interview, Curro asked for Hanson's opinion on the pro-homosexual Mardi Gras: Hanson answered "I don't like it; because it's promoting something that's not natural." (A caricature of Hanson and an endlessly repeated recording of the hypernasal "I don't like it" became a float theme at the next Sydney Mardi Gras.)

From Quiz Trivially Australian

Answer: John Boston

John Boston was Australia's first brewer. He concocted a brew he called 'beer' from corn and gooseberry leaves (yuk)! The first legal pub in Australia was built in 1796, the 'Masons Arms', in Parramatta and in 1804, hops were successfully grown in Australia.

From Quiz Aussie Decimal Currency

Answer: St Valentine's Day- February 14

Prior to this date, Australia operated on the same system as the UK at that time - pounds, shillings and pence. A sixpence was revalued at five cents, a shilling (12 pence) became ten cents, and a pound changed from twenty shillings to two dollars.

From Quiz Unusual Australian Trivia

Answer: Carrot

The flannel flower is a short-lived perennial, living up to four years. It grows in full sun or semi-shade and flowers between late September and early December. It has daisy like cream flowers and silver grey leaves.

From Quiz Let's Celebrate Australia Day!

Answer: 1808

26 January 1808 marked twenty years since Captain Arthur Phillip had raised the British flag at Sydney Cove claiming Australia for the Poms - and the Aussies have been beating them at cricket ever since, well, almost!

From Quiz A Mixed Bag of Australiana

Answer: Miming Prawns

Apart from being one of Australia's favourite comedians, Shane Bourne is also a fine actor, presently playing Bill 'Happy' Henderson, a pessimistic lawyer, in the ABC drama "MDA".

From Quiz Aussie Trivial Allsorts

Answer: Fairley Arrow

Intended as a publicity stunt, she achieved approximately 15 minutes of fame and hasn't been heard of since.

From Quiz The Australian Aboriginal Boomerang

Answer: 7

There are 7 types of boomerangs. They are the 'returning', 'hunting', 'hook', 'club', 'U shape', 'Y shape' and the 'cross'.

From Quiz Australian Facts

Answer: 45 million

Scientists believe that Australia was part of a single land mass, moving over the Earth's surface. This theory is called continental drift.

From Quiz Melbourne World Firsts

Answer: Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet

He won the award for the discovery of 'acquired immunological tolerance', the basis for organ transplants. Florey won the award for the development of penicillin in 1941.

From Quiz Interesting Facts About Australia

Answer: Geraldton

They are a chain of 122 islands, mainly coral reefs in the Indian Ocean, with abundance of bird life and famous for the Dutch ship-wrecks of Batavia (1629) and Zeewijk (1727).

From Quiz Help! Australia is Being Invaded!

Answer: Bufo marinus

In 1935, cane toads were imported into Australia to control a beetle that was destroying sugar cane crops. The cane toad has proved to be toxic to native wildlife, and bred to plague proportions, spreading over Queensland, into New South Wales and the Northern Territory and in 2009, reaching northern Western Australia. Bufo margaritifer is known as the Leaf Toad, and Bufo speciosis as the Texas Toad, while Bufo bufo is the Common Toad.

From Quiz Australia - The Land Of Big Things

Answer: A giant carving of a man into the Earth

The Maree Man is found in the outback of South Australia. It is a carving in the ground of what is believed to be an Aboriginal hunter. It is only visible from a plane. No-one knows who the artist is or how it was really made. The figure is 4.2km tall and the circumference of 15-28km. Trec Smith a pilot discovered it from his plane on the 26th of June 1998.

From Quiz Australian General Knowledge

Answer: Mike Sierra Foxtrot

The plane, "Mike Sierra Foxtrot" was frequently heard calling the base "Victor Charlie Charlie" throughout the series.

From Quiz Trivially Australian

Answer: Sydney

The first official international world surfing championship was held at Manly Beach in Sydney on 17 May 1964 and was won by Australia's 'Midget' (Bernard) Farrelly.

From Quiz Aussie Decimal Currency

Answer: One and two cents

A half a cent never existed. The one and two cent coins were made of a cupro-nickel alloy, and the five cent piece became the smallest denomination coin. All prices were rounded to the nearest five cent value. The one cent coin depicted the feather-tailed glider (a tiny marsupial), while the two cent had a frill-necked lizard on the 'tails' side.

From Quiz Unusual Australian Trivia

Answer: Earlwood Primary School

John Howard was born in Sydney on 26 July 1939. He attended school at Earlwood Primary and Canterbury Boys' High. He went on to the University of Sydney, graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1961 and was elected the Member for Bennelong in 1974.

From Quiz Aussie Statistics

Answer: 25%

25% of Aussies were born overseas according to ABS figures from 1996; 13.2% were from Europe, 6.7% from the UK and 5.1% from Asia.

From Quiz Let's Celebrate Australia Day!

Answer: Lachlan Macquarie

26 January 1818 marked thirty years of European settlement in the 'colony' and Governor Lachlan Macquarie organised the first 'official' 'Australia Day' celebrations which included a thirty gun salute and a dinner at Government House followed by a ball.

From Quiz A Mixed Bag of Australiana

Answer: Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly co-produced (with Andy Baldwin) the 1999 release of the self-titled album, "Professor Ratbaggy". He is also a frontman/singer/songwriter. The band was rooted in New Orleans/Memphis funk, R&B and dub reggae. The album produced two singles, "White Trash" and "Coma".

From Quiz The Australian Aboriginal Boomerang

Answer: used for sport

There are many sporting competitions held world wide. The returning boomerang has only been around for about 200 years and only used for hunting to a minor extent. There are boomerang associations in Australia, France, Canada, England, Germany, Japan, Holland, United States and Switzerland.

From Quiz Australia Day

Answer: Invasion Day

It is rather silly (and sad) that Australia's national day celebrates white settlement, to the exclusion of Aborigines.

From Quiz Australian Facts

Answer: duckbill platypus & platypus & echidna

When scientists in England first inspected a skull bone from a Platypus they thought it was a hoax, in which someone had stuck a duck's bill onto the skull of a small mammal.

From Quiz Melbourne World Firsts

Answer: McCafe

Situated on a busy thoroughfare for commuters, the idea of 'coffee and cake' became so popular it spread all over the world.

From Quiz Interesting Facts About Australia

Answer: In Bass Strait

Named after the British navigator Tobias Furneaux who sighted them in 1773 on his way to New Zealand to rejoin Captain James Cook.

From Quiz Help! Australia is Being Invaded!

Answer: Jarrah

All trees mentioned are native to Western Australia, but Jarrah is most severely affected by what was originally known as "Jarrah Dieback". It is principally spread by humans and vehicle movement. Marri is otherwise known as Red Gum, Mungart as Jam Tree, and Wandoo as White Gum.

From Quiz Australia - The Land Of Big Things

Answer: A lawn bowl

The Big Bowl is found outside the Lake Cathie Bowling Club in the small town of Lake Cathie, New South Wales. It is the biggest lawn bowl found anywhere in the world.

From Quiz Australian General Knowledge

Answer: 7

The Star of Federation is a seven pointed star. They came to the number seven, by giving each state (six in all) a point on the star, and having one more point for Australia's territories (of which there are several).

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