M is for "Magic Pudding" Trivia Quiz

Answer: No

USA produced the most amount of milk in 2000, with 76,294,000 tonnes. The other countries were (in order) Russia, India, Germany, France, Brazil, UK, Ukraine, New Zealand and Poland.

Answer: Gibson

George Miller wrote and directed these movies. The first movie was titled "Mad Max" (1979), the second was "Mad Max 2" (1981) and the third movie's full title was "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" (1985) which also stars Tina Turner. "Mad Max 2" was released in America under the title "Road Warrior".

Originally, its US distributor rejected "Mad Max", even after it was dubbed with American voices, but due to the success of the second movie, it was released. "Mad Max 2" was renamed in America "The Road Warrior".

Answer: Shelter

Mia-Mia is an Aboriginal shelter that is made of branches or bark. Its general purpose is that of a windbreak.

Answer: Murray

Murray Bridge, Murray Cod, Murray Group, John Murray and Leslie Murray.

John Murray was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy and commanded the "Lady Nelson". He helped Matthew Flinders chart the southern coast of Australia.

Leslie Allan Murray is a poet who was born in New South Wales. He has won many prizes for his works such as the Grace Leven Prize in 1965, Captain Cook Bicentenary and the CJ Dennis Memorial Prizes in 1976.

Murray Bridge is a town in South Australia that is approximately 84 kms from Adelaide. This town was originally called Mobilong but in 1924 officially changed its name.

The Murray cod is the largest Australian freshwater fish and is native to the Murray and Darling River systems. It has since been introduced into other rivers across the country. It can grow to 180 cm and 45 kg.

The Murray Group is situated in Queensland at the extreme northern tip of the Great Barrier Reef. It is a group of volcanic islands.

Answer: 2

The "HMAS Melbourne" was an aircraft carrier and a former flagship of Australia's navy.

The first collision was with "HMAS Voyager" in 1964, approximately 30 km of Jervis Bay, New South Wales. This collision killed 82 people and in 2003 was still classified as Australia's worst peacetime naval disaster.

The second time was with the US destroyer "Frank E Evans", in the South China Sea in 1969. This collision caused 74 US seamen to lose their lives.

The captains involved in both of these incidents were cleared of blame but were given shore positions. The "HMAS Melbourne" was decommissioned in 1982 and sold for scrap.

Answer: Chiko Roll

Francis McEncroe came from Bendigo, Victoria, and was inspired by the Chinese spring roll. The first time chiko rolls were served was at the Wagga Wagga Show (New South Wales) in 1951. Despite this food's name, there is no chicken in it and the ingredients are a variety of vegetables (especially cabbage) and other meat.

It is estimated that Australians consume more that 15.5 million rolls per year.

Answer: Captain Melville

Captain Melville was know as 'The Gentleman Bushranger' as he treated the people he robbed gallantly and courteously. He 'worked' in the state of Victoria. Captain Melville was captured in a Geelong brothel after he told a prostitute his identity in 1853 and later he was sentenced to 32 years in jail.

Answer: New South Wales

The Murrumbidgee River rises in the Australian Alps near Kiandra and flows westerly to the Murray River approximately 50 kms from Euston, NSW. Murrumbidgee River is 1,578 kms long and was first sighted by Charles Throsby in 1821 and explored by Charles Sturt in 1829-30.

The Burrinjuck Dam is located on this river as well as the Tantangara Dam, which is part of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric scheme. Murrumbidgee is Aboriginal for 'big water' and 'ever flowing'.

Answer: True

Although Aborigines have been eating this nut for a considerable time, Allan Cunningham first discovered it in 1828. In the 1900s, a group of American horticulturists exported some seeds to Hawaii where now this nut is extensively grown, but Australia only started cultivating it in the 1960s for commercial purposes.

Answer: Captain Philip King

Captain Philip Gidley King, who in later years became a governor of New South Wales, was the first man to arrange for the introduction of merino sheep into Australia.

In 1796 whilst travelling to England, he docked in Cape Town where he heard that 26 Spanish merinos were being sold. King approached two ship captains and asked them to buy these sheep for him and take them to Australia. Unfortunately King did not return immediately and consequently the surviving sheep (13) were sold and were bought by various people, one being John MacArthur. MacArthur then acquired the other ten from the other buyers.

Answer: Yes

The first mint was in Sydney in Macquarie Street at the old Rum Hospital. The current mint is now located in Canberra.

Answer: Marble Bar

Marble Bar is regarded, on average, as the hottest town in Australia and was founded in 1897.

It is located about 1,495 kms from Perth. Port Hedland is the major town that is approximately 184 kms southeast and nearly 60 kms of the road to this centre is unsealed. There used to be a railway line from Port Hedland to Marble Bar but it was closed in 1951.

In 1927 a record temperature of 100 deg F. or 37.8 deg C for 160 consecutive days (other references cite slightly different figures) occurred. Marble Bar also has experienced cyclones and one in 1941 devastated the town.

Answer: Where "Welcome Stranger" gold nugget was found

Moliagul has an approximate population of 200 and it is located nearly 60 kms west of Bendigo, Victoria. It was a thriving mining town in the 1850s and 1860s and in its peak had a population of 16,000.

The nugget "Welcome Stranger" is one of the biggest pieces of gold that has ever been found in the world. John Deason discovered it on 5th February 1869 among some tree roots in Bulldog Gully. The nugget weighed 70.9 kgs of which 69.92 kgs was pure gold.

Answer: Most haunted house

Monte Cristo is a house in Junee, New South Wales. It is reported to be the most haunted house in Australia. The ghosts that 'reside' there are Christopher and Elizabeth Crawley (past owners), Monte Cristo and numerous unnamed others.

Answer: Third

The Australian trumpet is also known as the marine snail. The average length is 770 mm or 30 in. The biggest mollusk is the giant squid who grows to an estimated average of 16,764 mm or 660 in.

Answer: Mount Bartle Frere

Mount Bartle Frere is the highest peak in Queensland at 1,611m. It is in the Bellenden Ker Ranges, which are approximately 72 km south of Cairns.

Mount Zeil is the highest mountain in the MacDonnell Ranges, southern Northern Territory. Ernest Giles discovered it in 1872 and it is 1,510m high.

Mount Woodroffe is South Australia's highest peak at 1,440m. It is located in the Musgrave Ranges.

Mount Meharry is located in the Hamersley Ranges of Western Australia. It is this state's highest peak at 1,245 m.

Answer: No

Mornington Island is in the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland. It is approximately 50km long and has an average width of 20km. Mornington Peninsula is in Victoria and it is the promontory that separates Phillip Bay from Westernport and Bass Strait. Colonel David Collins established the first settlement in 1803. Mornington Peninsula was named after Mornington in Ireland.

Answer: Pig Iron Bob

This nickname came about when Menzies decided to sell scrap iron to Japan.

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was born in 1894 and died in 1978. He was prime minister from 1949 to 1966 and this makes him the longest serving prime minister in Australia's history to 2003.

He entered the political sphere in 1928 and by 1932 he had became Attorney General as well as the Deputy Premier. In 1934, he decided to stand for federal politics and won the seat of Kooyong, which he held for the next 32 years. He became prime minister after Joseph Lyons died in 1939. His actions of selling iron to the Japanese and the instigation of the 'Brisbane Line' led to him to be replaced by John Curtin (ALP). He then started the Liberal Party of Australia in 1944, which won the 1949 election and remained in the office of Prime Minister until he retired.

Answer: True

In 2003, this attendance figure still stands as the highest attendance at any VFL/AFL league grand final. The 1970 Grand Final was between Carlton and Collingwood and the winner was Carlton.

Answer: Men At Work

"Men At Work" was formed in 1979. The band members were Colin Hay, Ron Strykert, Jerry Speiser, Greg Ham and John Rees. Their first single was "Who Can It Be Now" and it instantly became a huge success. In 1983, they produced "Down Under" and this single and album stayed at number one for 15 weeks in the US.

The song "Down Under" unofficially became the 'anthem' for Australia at the 1983 America's Cup.