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Quiz about The Gold Rush Down Under
Quiz about The Gold Rush Down Under

The Gold Rush Down Under Trivia Quiz


Just like North America, Australia was in the grip of gold fever from its earliest days.

A matching quiz by windrush. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
windrush
Time
4 mins
Type
Match Quiz
Quiz #
396,238
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
214
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QuestionsChoices
1. Convict James Daley's 1788 report of gold.   
  Murchison River and Northam
2. Discovered gold near Bathurst and Goulburn 1841-42  
  Daisy Hill, Victoria
3. Australia's first working gold mine, South Australia  
  The Welcome Nugget
4. Sites of first Western Australian gold finds   
  Bendigo, Victoria
5. Victoria's abortive 'gold rush that was stamped out' 1849  
  Castambul 1846
6. Golden Square, Golden Gully, 1851  
  Reverend William Clarke
7. Found at Moliagul near Bendigo, Victoria,1869   
  The Welcome Stranger
8. West Australian Outback Goldrush city  
  Kalgoorlie-Boulder
9. Found at Bakery Hill in Ballarat, 1858  
  The Eureka Stockade
10. Scene of rebellion by Victorian goldminers   
  First gold hoax





Select each answer

1. Convict James Daley's 1788 report of gold.
2. Discovered gold near Bathurst and Goulburn 1841-42
3. Australia's first working gold mine, South Australia
4. Sites of first Western Australian gold finds
5. Victoria's abortive 'gold rush that was stamped out' 1849
6. Golden Square, Golden Gully, 1851
7. Found at Moliagul near Bendigo, Victoria,1869
8. West Australian Outback Goldrush city
9. Found at Bakery Hill in Ballarat, 1858
10. Scene of rebellion by Victorian goldminers

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Convict James Daley's 1788 report of gold.

Answer: First gold hoax

It didn't take long for the first hoaxer to start the rumours. First-Fleet convict James Daley, newly arrived in Sydney Harbor, led an officer to a remote spot (lots of those in the first year of European settlement!) on pretense of showing where he had found a small nugget. He promptly absconded but was soon recaptured. Penalty: 50 lashes.

The next day Daley showed his nugget to Governor Phillip, and was ordered to show the site of his 'find'. Under the threat of summary execution, he confessed to having manufactured a nugget from a gold coin. Penalty: 100 lashes.

Sadly, this inventive man was executed later in 1788 for burglary.
2. Discovered gold near Bathurst and Goulburn 1841-42

Answer: Reverend William Clarke

By 1841, much of the Central and Southern Tablelands was being settled, and Bathurst and Goulburn were visited by ministers of religion. The Reverend William Clarke was apparently as interested in the gold in the ground as he was in the gold in men's souls.

He made numerous small finds near the Cox's and Wollondilly Rivers, took his finds to government, hoping for backing for a mining venture. This was not supported as New South Wales was still a penal colony and there was fear of the effect of a gold rush on the still fledgling colony. He was, however, rewarded for his services.
3. Australia's first working gold mine, South Australia

Answer: Castambul 1846

Gold was found in the Adelaide Hills by Captain Thomas Terrell, only 20 km from the heart of Adelaide, at a site named Castambul.

Australia's first productive gold mine, the Victoria, was set up on the spot in the same year. Unfortunately, the gold soon ran out.
4. Sites of first Western Australian gold finds

Answer: Murchison River and Northam

Between 1848 and 1884, small amounts of gold, including a few nuggets, were found in the Murchison and Bowes River regions.

Shepherds feature largely throughout Australia's gold history, possibly because they were always pushing out into the wilds seeking good grazing for their charges.
5. Victoria's abortive 'gold rush that was stamped out' 1849

Answer: Daisy Hill, Victoria

In 1848 a shepherd, Thomas Chapman, showed a Melbourne jeweller a stone containing 38 oz of almost pure gold. As a result of the publicity, a hundred or so men rushed to Daisy Hill, near Amherst in the Pyrenees Ranges.

Victoria's first Lieutenant Governor, Charles La Trobe quickly ordered 10 mounted police and 8 aboriginal troopers to take possession of the site and prevent any 'unauthorised trespass', ending the "gold rush of Daisy Hill". Some sections of the press (possibly after pressure from La Trobe?) then dismissed the whole thing as a hoax.

Ann and Charles Brentani, the jewellers who bought the original nugget, later claimed that people continued to bring their Daisy Hill finds to them.
6. Golden Square, Golden Gully, 1851

Answer: Bendigo, Victoria

The first gold finds at Bendigo were in 1851, at a site now called "Golden Square", commonly thought to be by by Mrs. Margaret Kennedy and Julia Farrell. Many others claimed to be the first gold-diggers and panners in this lucrative site.
7. Found at Moliagul near Bendigo, Victoria,1869

Answer: The Welcome Stranger

The biggest alluvial nugget ever found, the Welcome Stranger was discovered in 1869 by prospectors, John Deason and Richard Oates in 1869. It weighed in at 210 lbs (78 kg). As there were no scales large enough to accurately weigh a nugget of this size, it was broken into three pieces by a local blacksmith.

The prospectors were given an estimated 9,381 pounds sterling for the nugget, which was melted down into more than 70.5 kg of pure gold. At February 2018 this amount of gold would have been worth $3.8 million.
8. West Australian Outback Goldrush city

Answer: Kalgoorlie-Boulder

Kalgoorlie - Boulder (commonly just called Kalgoorlie) is the largest city in Outback Australia.

It was the site of the first major gold find in Western Australia, when a prospector named Paddy Hannan discovered the precious metal there in 1893.

The Kalgoorlie goldfield has been mined ever since, and is reportedly the richest mile on Earth.
9. Found at Bakery Hill in Ballarat, 1858

Answer: The Welcome Nugget

Apologies for the similarity with the Welcome Stranger Nugget. This beautiful nugget was found by a group of 22 Cornish miners not long after arriving in Australia. Not a bad introduction to the country!

The nugget was sold in Melbourne for 10,500 pounds sterling, and was displayed at London's Crystal Palace before the Royal Mint melted it down for gold sovereigns.
10. Scene of rebellion by Victorian goldminers

Answer: The Eureka Stockade

Riots were triggered by the imposition of a 30 shillings per month licence fee; exorbitant given the patchy nature of finds of gold. The miners also demanded the right to vote and to purchase land.

After a miner was murdered by a hotel keeper, who was acquitted, the riots became bigger and more vocal. More Government crackdowns and harsher treatment of miners ensued.

In November 1854 the blue and white Eureka Flag was raised and the battle of the Eureka Stockade took place on 3rd December. According to Peter Lalor, one of the rebellion's leaders (who lost his left arm after being shot) 22 miners were killed by the troopers, who fired indiscriminately into the crowd. Women and children apparently threw themselves on top of the wounded, to prevent further bloodshed.
Source: Author windrush

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