Australia Quiz 4: 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. Australia's highest mainland mountain is named after a Polish national hero. What is it called?
Mount Kosciuszko
2. What is Australia's longest river?
3. Which is Australia's largest state?
4. What is the capital of the Northern Territory, and after whom is it named?
Darwin; Charles Darwin
5. Which city was the seat of Australia's federal government from 1901 until 1927?
6. Canberra's central lake is named after the American architect who, with his wife, designed the city. Who was he?
Walter Burley Griffin
7. Which stretch of water separates Tasmania from the mainland?
Bass Strait
8. In which state are the Twelve Apostles rock stacks, on the Great Ocean Road?
9. In which city is Bondi Beach?
10. What is the Aboriginal name, officially adopted in 2023, of Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island?
K'gari
11. What does "Nullarbor", the name of the vast plain in southern Australia, mean?
"No trees" (from Latin "nullus arbor")
12. Which mostly dry salt lake is the lowest point in Australia?
13. Between which two cities does the Indian Pacific train run?
Sydney and Perth
14. The Ghan train runs from Adelaide to Darwin. Who is it named after?
The Afghan cameleers who helped open up the outback
15. What is the largest living marsupial?
The red kangaroo
16. To which family of birds does the kookaburra belong?
17. What is the largest living reptile, found in northern Australia?
The saltwater crocodile
18. Cane toads were introduced to Queensland in 1935 to control beetles in which crop?
Sugar cane
19. What was built across Western Australia in the early 1900s to keep out an animal pest?
The Rabbit-Proof Fence
20. To the nearest million, what is Australia's population?
27 million
ANSWERS
1. Mount Kosciuszko
2. B The Murray
3. D Western Australia
4. Darwin; Charles Darwin
5. C Melbourne
6. Walter Burley Griffin
7. Bass Strait
8. D Victoria
9. A Sydney
10. K'gari
11. "No trees" (from Latin "nullus arbor")
12. B Lake Eyre
13. Sydney and Perth
14. The Afghan cameleers who helped open up the outback
15. The red kangaroo
16. B The kingfisher family
17. The saltwater crocodile
18. Sugar cane
19. The Rabbit-Proof Fence
20. 27 million