General Quiz Questions Round 1
1. In
which year was Australia Day first celebrated?
Was it 1789, 1818, 1874 or 1901?
Answer: 1818
2. What is
Answer: Commonwealth of
3. The awarding of the Australian of the Year
began in which year?
Answer: 1960
4. Why was Australia Day 1959 significant for
Answer:
5. In what year did Advance Australia Fair
become the national anthem?
Answer: 1984
6. Who is the only person to have been
awarded both the Australian of the Year and the Young Australian of the Year
titles?
Answer: Cathy Freeman
7. In 1977, 3 Million Australians voted for
Advance Australia Fair to be the National Anthem. What were the other 3
choices?
Answer: Waltzing Mathilda, God save
the Queen and Song of
8. 27 May to 3 June is National
Reconciliation Week. What is significant
about these dates?
27 May is the anniversary date of the 1967
Referendum which successfully removed from the Constitution clauses that discriminated
against indigenous Australians. 3 June
is the anniversary of the handing down of the High Court decision on the Eddie Mabo land rights case.
9. Which State is missing in the Preamble to
the Australian Constitution?
Answer:
10. What is the 23rd word of the National
Anthem?
Answer: By
Explorers and Geography
1. In what years did
Matthew Flinders circumnavigate
Answer: 1801-1803
2. Who is
Answer: The explorer Edward Eyre the first man to
reach
3. In what year did
Douglas Mawson reach the South Magnetic Pole?
Answer: 1908
4. What mountain in the
Answer:
5. Where was James Cook
killed in 1779?
Answer:
6. In which state would
you find the
Answer: NSW
7. While the Overland
Telegraph was a significant engineering achievement, it was also significant
for another reason in the Pine Creek area, what was that reason?
Answer: discovery of gold in the post holes
8.What significant tourist attraction can be found in
the
Answer: Katherine Gorge
9. Where is the oldest
aircraft hangar in the NT?
Answer: Daly Waters
10. The Devil plays with these off the
Answer: Devil’s Marbles
Arts and Sciences
1. In what year did
Banjo Patterson write Waltzing Mathilda?
Answer: 1895
2. The dessert the Peach
Melba is named after which famous Australian Opera singer?
Answer: Dame Nellie Melba
3. “the
Voice” is the nickname for which Australian of the Year?
Answer: John Farnham
4. In 1977 Pro Hart
painted “Chop Picnic in the Park”. What
is a Chop Picnic?
Answer: BBQ
5. Which is the only
Australian Group to be named Australians of the Year?
Answer: The Seekers
6. Respected Australian
Scientist Howard Florey built on Alexander Fleming’s initial work to extract
which drug?
Answer: Penicillin
7. An Australian
invented the Black Box Flight recorder, true or false?
Answer: True, Dr David Warren of the Aeronautical
Research Laboratories in
8. What did Australian
of the Year Professor Graham Clarke develop?
Answer: The bionic ear
9. In December 1983
Australia II won the
Answer: Winged Keel
10. What did Australian of the Year Professor Ian
Frazer develop?
Answer: A vaccine to prevent the development of
cervical cancer
Student’s Quiz Questions 2006
For ages 10 – 14
Round One
Sports and the Arts
1.
In what
sport would you find Eagles, Magpies and Swans playing?
2.
What is
the name of the Australian who holds the record for the most Olympic gold
medals won?
3.
In 1998
Cathy Freeman won the Australian of the Year Award, what sport did she
participate in?
4.
Finish
this cheer heard at many great Australian sporting victories Aussie, Aussie,
Aussie…?
5.
In what
city were the 2006 Commonwealth Games held?
6.
In the
song Waltzing Mathilda, what is the Jumbuck?
7.
What is the name of the Australian National
Anthem?
8.
The Didgereedoo and Lagerphone are both Australian what?
9.
Name a
famous Australian Band from Arhnem land whose lead
singer was Australian of the Year Manduwuy Yunupingu?
10.
The 1999
Senior Australian of the Year was Slim Dusty, what was he famous for?
Round 1 Answers
1) AFL or Aussie Rules
2) Ian Thorp
3) Athletics or running
4) Oi,
oi, oi
5)
6) Sheep
7) Advance
8) Musical instruments
9) Yothu
Yindi
10) Music, country
music, country and western songs.
Round Two
History and Science
1.
Australia
Day, 26 January commemorates the date that Captain Cook landed in
2.
In 2001 we
celebrated the Centenary of what in
3.
What is
the name of our first Prime Minister?
4.
5.
What does
6.
Does the
Tropic of Capricorn or the Tropic of Cancer run through
7.
Vegemite
is an Australian invention made from what main ingredient?
8.
The cane
toad was first introduced to what
9.
Where in
10.
Who is the
Round 2 Answers
1) false, it was
Captain Phillip in 1788
2) Federation
3) Edmund Barton
4) Self Government
5) Gold Mining
6) Capricorn
7) Yeast
8)
9) Central
10) Charles Mcdouall Stuart
who am i?
Play the national
anthem cd. Wiggles version
I am an Australian
group
I am popular with
young Australians
I often hang out with
a purple dinasour
One of the group’s name is Jeff
I am easily
identified by the colurs of our skivvies
The second word of my
name starts with W
I am The…
Round Three
General Knowledge
1.
How many
verses are there in the national anthem, Advance Australia Fair? Two
2.
What is
the NT’s Floral Emblem? Sturt’s Desert Rose
3.
What is Mr
Ted Egan’s official title? Administrator
of the
4.
What is
this part of the flag called ? (point to top left hand
corner)
5.
Qantas is
our national airline, what do the letters stand for?
6.
What are
7.
What would
NOT be considered bush food, mangrove worm, bush plum, quarter pounder with
cheese? QP
8.
If NT
stands for
9.
What
political party does the Chief Minister of the NT, The Hon Clare Martin belong
to? Australian Labor
Party or Labor Party.
10.
Round Three Answers
1) Two
2) Sturt’s Desert
Rose
3) Administrator of
the
4) Union Jack
5)
6) Green and Gold
7) Quarter pounder
with cheese
8)
9) Australian Labor Party or Labor Party
10) True
Tie Breakers
1.
The NT has
two Faunal or animal emblems what are they? Wedgetail Eagle and the Red Kangaroo
2.
What is
the star constellation that appears on the Australian Flag? the Southern Cross
3.
How many
colours are there in the NT flag? three
black, white and Ochre
4.
Who was
the second Prime Minister of Australia? Alfred
Deakin