Australia Quiz 6: multiple choice
9 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. The Torres Strait separates Australia from which country?
2. In which region of the Northern Territory did the didgeridoo originate?
Arnhem Land
3. In which year did Australians vote in a referendum for Aboriginal people to be counted in the national census?
4. In which year did Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologise to the Stolen Generations?
5. What does ANZAC stand for?
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
6. Who was Australia's first prime minister?
7. Which prime minister disappeared while swimming at a Victorian beach in 1967?
Harold Holt
8. Which prime minister was dismissed by the Governor-General in 1975?
Gough Whitlam
9. Who is Australia's longest-serving prime minister?
10. Julia Gillard, Australia's first woman prime minister, was born in which country?
11. Which future prime minister set a world record at Oxford University for drinking a yard of ale?
Bob Hawke
12. In which year did Australians vote in a referendum against becoming a republic?
13. What was the nationality of Dirk Hartog, who left an inscribed pewter plate on an island off Western Australia in 1616?
Dutch
14. Which navigator, the first to sail around the continent, popularised the name "Australia"?
Matthew Flinders
15. Which two explorers led an ill-fated expedition from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1860-61?
Burke and Wills (Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills)
16. Port Arthur, a former convict settlement, is in which state?
17. Which wartime prime minister died in office in July 1945?
John Curtin
18. Which huge engineering project in south-eastern Australia, built between 1949 and 1974, created dams and power stations in the mountains?
The Snowy Mountains Scheme
19. In 1895, women in which Australian colony became among the first in the world to win the right to stand for parliament?
South Australia
20. Which city was destroyed by Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Day 1974?
ANSWERS
1. C Papua New Guinea
2. Arnhem Land
3. B 1967
4. D 2008
5. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
6. C Sir Edmund Barton
7. Harold Holt
8. Gough Whitlam
9. D Sir Robert Menzies
10. C Wales
11. Bob Hawke
12. B 1999
13. Dutch
14. Matthew Flinders
15. Burke and Wills (Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills)
16. A Tasmania
17. John Curtin
18. The Snowy Mountains Scheme
19. South Australia
20. A Darwin