Australia Quiz 3: multiple choice

7 of the 20 questions have four options to choose from; the others stay as normal questions, because no fair wrong answers could be found for them. Tap an option to see if you are right.

1. What is the capital of Australia?

2. What is Australia's largest city?

3. How many states does Australia have?

4. In which territory is Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock?

5. Off the coast of which state is the Great Barrier Reef?

6. On which day of the week is the Melbourne Cup, "the race that stops a nation", run?

7. Who commanded the First Fleet, which arrived at Sydney Cove in 1788?

8. Where did Captain Cook first land on Australia's east coast in 1770?

9. Which bird appears with the kangaroo on Australia's coat of arms?

10. What is Australia's national flower?

11. What is the title of Australia's national anthem?

12. Who wrote the words of "Waltzing Matilda"?

13. After which Dutch explorer is Tasmania named?

14. In 1988, Australia became the first country to issue banknotes made of what?

15. The platypus and the echidna are mammals that lay eggs. What is the name for this group of mammals?

16. On the leaves of which tree do koalas almost exclusively feed?

17. The last known thylacine died in a zoo in 1936. By what name is the thylacine better known?

18. Which bushranger, famous for his home-made armour, was hanged in Melbourne in 1880?

19. In 1854, gold miners rebelled against the authorities at the Eureka Stockade. Near which town?

20. On what date did the Australian colonies federate to form the Commonwealth of Australia?

ANSWERS

1. C Canberra

2. A Sydney

3. B Six

4. The Northern Territory

5. B Queensland

6. Tuesday (the first Tuesday in November)

7. C Captain Arthur Phillip

8. Botany Bay

9. The emu

10. The golden wattle

11. "Advance Australia Fair"

12. C Banjo Paterson

13. Abel Tasman

14. Plastic (polymer)

15. Monotremes

16. Eucalyptus

17. The Tasmanian tiger

18. Ned Kelly

19. D Ballarat

20. 1 January 1901