26th January, 2005

Test your knowledge of Australia with our quick trivia quiz. Answers are below...

PICTURE: Matthew Scherf (iStockphoto.com) What is the name of the star constellation featured on the Australian flag?

1 point
1. What is the name of Australia’s national anthem?

2. What is the name of the star constellation featured on the Australian flag?

3. This was also the name of a famous aircraft flown by whom?

4. Who is Australia’s Governor-General?

5. What building was originally designed by Dane Jorn Utzon?


2 points
6. Who was the first prime minister of Australia?

7. Which American was the architect behind the design of much of Australia’s national capital, Canberra?

8. What is the name for koala young?

9. What did cricketing great Sir Donald Bradman score in his final test match?

10. What is the lowest point on the Australian continent?


3 points
11. By what other name was vegemite known early in its history?

12. Where is “The Dish” actually located?

13. Who was the “wild white man” who lived among the Aborigines in south-west Victoria for 32 years after escaping from a penal settlement at Sorrento?

14. Australia’s famous “Charge of the Light Horsemen” took place where?

15. What year did Christopher Skase flee Australia for Spain?

ANSWERS BELOW

1. Advance Australia Fair.

2. The Southern Cross.

3. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm.

4. Major-General Michael Jeffery.

5. The Sydney Opera House.

6. Sir Edmund Barton.

7. Walter Burley Griffin.

8. Joeys.

9. Zero (a duck).

10. Lake Eyre.

11. Parwill.

12. Parkes, New South Wales.

13. William Buckley.

14. Beersheba.

15. 1991.

TOTAL POINTS POSSIBLE: 30