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I Still Call Australia Home Trivia Quiz

Hi this is a quiz on towns and cities within Australia. I provide you with interesting information and facts and you select the relevant place.

A multiple-choice quiz by wasm_boy. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
wasm_boy

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
241,847

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
964

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Question 1 of 10

1. I am walking down Hay Street passing the Red House with gold in my pocket. Where in Australia am I? Hint

Kalgoorlie

Charters Towers

Broken Hill

Bendigo

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Question 2 of 10

2. We leave the Golden Mile and head along the famous water pipeline to this city. Founded in 1829 by Captain James Stirling and nestled between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp, what city am I? Hint

Perth

Fremantle

Adelaide

Geraldton

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Question 3 of 10

3. I was a bustling small mining town in the early 1900's. Today mining continues, but the town's economy is supplemented by tourism. The barren surrounds of the town, the result of timber felling, noxious smelter fumes and the region's high rainfall, remind some tourists of a moonscape. Hint

Coolgardie

Ballarat

Queenstown

Cooper Pedy

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which Australian city was host to the first Olympic Games in the southern hemisphere? Hint

Melbourne

Sydney

Perth

Brisbane

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Question 5 of 10

5. An Australian Prime Minister, whose name is now the colloquial slang for salt, disappeared off the beach near this popular holiday spot. Hint

Swansea

Bondi

Glenelg

Portsea

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Question 6 of 10

6. I am a small town best known for the wine region named after it, identified by a strip of soil along the Riddoch Highway? Hint

Margaret River

Barossa Valley

Hunter Valley

Coonawarra

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Question 7 of 10

7. I am the birthplace of former Australian cricketeer, David Clarence Boon. He is an iconic Australian legend and a proud Tasmanian. Where was he born? Hint

Launceston

Devonport

Hobart

Swansea

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Question 8 of 10

8. The pearling capital of Australia and a favoured town for tourists, whose presence can more than double the town's population during the season. Where am I? Hint

Surfers Paradise

Townsville

Darwin

Broome

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Question 9 of 10

9. This city was once listed in the Guinness Book of Records for being the largest city in the world by area. Hint

Sydney

Mount Isa

Newcastle

Brisbane

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Question 10 of 10

10. This town is called the 'Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef' and lies on the Burnett River in Queensland. Hint

Airlie Beach

Bundaberg

Mackay

Coffs Harbour

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. I am walking down Hay Street passing the Red House with gold in my pocket. Where in Australia am I?

Answer: Kalgoorlie

An Irish born prospector, Paddy Hannan, filed the first claim near Kalgoorlie in 1893. A commemorative statue to Paddy Hannan is today located on the corner of Hannan and Wilson Street in Kalgoorlie and a bar at the Burswood Casino is named in honour of him.

The "gold capital of Australia", Kalgoorlie has a population in excess of 30,000, with 25 pubs and 3 brothels servicing the many needs of its inhabitants.

Answer: Perth

Perth is the largest city in Western Australia and fourth largest in Australia, after Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The Perth CBD is located on the Swan River, named after the local black swans. The metropolitan area of Perth spreads north and south along the pristine beaches of the coast over a total distance of more than 125 kilometres by road.

Answer: Queenstown

Queenstown is located on the often wild and wet west coast of Tasmania. Some common tourist attractions within the town and surrounding areas includes the 'moonscape' mountain sides, the rock surface AFL ground and the local museum which offers good insight into the colourful history of the town.

4. Which Australian city was host to the first Olympic Games in the southern hemisphere?

Answer: Melbourne

Locally thought of as the 'Sporting Capital of Australia', Melbourne has been home to the 1956 Olympic Games, the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the Presidents Cup golf tournament in 1999. Each year, Melbourne hosts the AFL Grand Final and the Boxing Day Test at the MCG, the Melbourne Cup is the race that stops a nation, and the Australian Formula One Grand Prix is staged at Albert Park.

5. An Australian Prime Minister, whose name is now the colloquial slang for salt, disappeared off the beach near this popular holiday spot.

Answer: Portsea

Harold Holt was the Australian Prime Minister who went for a swim one day and disappeared off this beach. Actually a suburb of Melbourne, Portsea's postcode, 3944, is the Australia's most affluent. Little wonder the Head of State should have swam there.

6. I am a small town best known for the wine region named after it, identified by a strip of soil along the Riddoch Highway?

Answer: Coonawarra

The Coonawarra wine region is a strip of terra rossa soil approximately 15 kilometres long and two kilometres wide along the Riddoch Highway in South Australia. Terra rossa is rich red topsoil over porous limestone.

7. I am the birthplace of former Australian cricketeer, David Clarence Boon. He is an iconic Australian legend and a proud Tasmanian. Where was he born?

Answer: Launceston

Boonie achieved cult status when he consumed 52 cans of beer on the flight from Sydney to London prior to the commencement of the Ashes series which saw Australia regain the Ashes after 5 years.

8. The pearling capital of Australia and a favoured town for tourists, whose presence can more than double the town's population during the season. Where am I?

Answer: Broome

At least 88 people were killed during a Japanese air attack on Broome on March 3, 1942.

9. This city was once listed in the Guinness Book of Records for being the largest city in the world by area.

Answer: Mount Isa

Mount Isa developed for the sole purpose of extracting the huge mineral deposits of lead, silver, copper and zinc that are beneath and around the town.

10. This town is called the 'Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef' and lies on the Burnett River in Queensland.

Answer: Bundaberg

A town largely dependant on the sugar cane grown throughout the surrounding districts for its downstream industries, including milling and refining, packing and distribution. An iconic Australian beverage, Bundaberg Rum, or Bundy, is also produced in Bundaberg from a by-product of the sugar industry - molasses.

Source: Author wasm_boy

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