Oz Polly Bobs Trivia Quiz

Answer: Bob Brown

Before moving to Tasmania in 1972, "outing" his gay relationship and becoming a member of Australia's first "green" party (the United Tasmania Group) Robert James "Bob" Brown was a New South Welshman. He was born in Oberon in 1944 and trained as a medical doctor at Sydney University.

In 1976 he fasted for a week atop Mt Wellington protesting against the nuclear-powered warship USS Enterprise entering Hobart; and, in 1983, after spending nineteen days in jail for preventing the construction of the Franklin Dam, he was elected member for Denison in Tasmania's House of Assembly.

In the 1996 federal election he was elected to represent Tasmania in the Australian Senate as a member of the Australian Greens. He remained in office until 13 April 2012 when he resigned not only his Senate seat but also his leadership of the Party.

Answer: Bob Hawke

Born 1929 in Bordertown, South Australia, Robert James Lee Hawke (aka Bob Hawke) graduated in arts and law from the University of Western Australia, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford where he successfully presented a thesis on wage-fixing and then undertook doctoral studies at Canberra's Australian National University, specializing in arbitration law.

He quit his studies to accept a research position at the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and in 1969 he was elected its President. In 1983 he became the Leader of the Labor Party and the member for Wills in the House of Representatives.

He led Labor to victory in the elections of 1984, 1987 and 1990.

Answer: Bob Katter

Born in 1945 at Cloncurry in Queensland, Robert Carl Katter (aka Bob Katter) is from a socially conservative migrant Lebanese Maronite family with alleged links to the poet Khalil Gibran. He was a Country Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly representing Flinders from 1974 to 1992, and then successfully entered the Australian House of Representatives representing Kennedy, a seat he held as a National until 2001 then retained as an Independent in subsequent elections following his resignation from the National Party.

In 2011 he formed "Katter's Australian Party" to represent agricultural interests in keeping with his primary focus before he entered politics.

Answer: Bob Carr

Labor Premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005, Robert John "Bob" Carr was born in Sydney in 1947. At the age of fifteen he joined the Australian Labor Party and at the age of thirty-six he entered the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Before becoming the Australian Labor Party member for Maroubra he worked as an ABC Radio journalist; and after leaving office in 2005 he worked as a consultant for Macquarie Bank.

In 2012 he was parachuted into the Australian Senate when Mark Arbib "resigned" and was immediately appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs.

At the 2013 federal election, Bob secured a full six-year term in the Australian Senate but resigned from office shortly after Labor's defeat.

Answer: Bob Sneath

Labor MLC Bob Sneath was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 2000. He resigned in 2012 and was replaced by Kyam Maher. Born in 1949, Robert Kenneth "Bob" Sneath was a sheep-shearer who started his political career as an AWU organiser. For six years he was President of the ALP Naracoorte sub branch, and in 1999 became an ALP State Executive member and President of the party.

Answer: Bob Lowe

Bob Lowe's New South Wales running mate for Senate positions in the 2013 federal election was Tim Dean. The party they represent, the Australian Fishing and Lifestyle Party, opposes restrictions and impositions on traditional Australian outdoor pursuits.

Answer: Sir Bob Menzies

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (1894-1978), aka Bob Menzies, was born at Jeparit, Victoria, and was our 12th Prime Minister. He was Prime Minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966, making him our longest serving Prime Minister. Formerly a barrister and Attorney-General, Bob Menzies gained the nickname "pig-iron Bob" because he allowed scrap iron to be sold to Japan; and "Ming" comes from the way his name, Menzies, is pronounced in Scotland.

Answer: Bob Burgess

Bob Burgess represented the seat of Leichhard in Queensland as a National Party member. As a former National Party colleague, Bob Katter came out in defence of Burgess but in doing so he received as much, if not more, criticism than the original "dewogging" comment made by his colleague.

Answer: Bob Such

Born 1944 in Hawthorndene, South Australia, Robert Bruce "Bob" Such grew up in South Australia and lectured in politics, economics and the environment before entering politics. He was a member of the Liberal Party from the 1989 election to 2000, holding the seat of Fisher in the South Australian House of Assembly.

He was the Shadow Minister for Further Education, Employment and Youth Affairs before the Liberal government came to power in South Australia in 1993, and held the same portfolio in power.

However, his portfolio was removed from him with a change of Liberal leadership in 1996 and this coup precipitated his resignation from the Liberal party in 2000.

Answer: Bob McMullan

Born 1947 in Perth, Western Australia, Robert Francis (Bob) McMullan is an economics and arts graduate from the University of Western Australia. As an anti-Vietnam War protester his conscription for military service in 1968 was voided. McMullan joined the Labor Party in 1973, becoming the Western Australian State Secretary in 1975 and National Secretary (based in Canberra, ACT) in 1981.

In 1988, due to a casual vacancy, he entered the Australian Senate representing the ACT, and in 1996 he resigned his Senate seat to successfully contest the Canberra seat in the House of Representatives (moving to the neighbouring seat of Fraser in 1998).

When Labor finally gained power in 2007 under Kevin Rudd, McMullan was surprisingly given a junior post and he retired prior to the 2010 federal election.