The JB Quiz
All the answers to our quiz can be found in the stories in this issue.
1. What is the name of the only permanently moored pontoon on the Great Barrier Reef in the Whitsundays (Ngaro Country)?
2. Which gallery is Australia’s oldest and most-visited art gallery?
3. If you’re visiting Horizontal Falls (Garaangadim) in T _ _ _ _ _ B _ _, you’re in the ancestral country of the saltwater Dambimangari people.
4. The wedge-tailed shearwater is what species of animal?
5. Which Australian state is considered the most mountainous at more than 450 peaks?
6. How many tonnes of gold are produced annually by Kalgoorlie’s (Wongatha) Super Pit?
7. Macquarie Harbour (Toogee Country) – in the West Coast region of Tasmania – is a body of water how many times the size of Sydney Harbour? 8. Is a whale shark taxonomically a whale or a shark? 9. The Blue Mountains’ Scenic Skyway cable car descends how many metres to the valley floor? 10. There’s a reef in Rottnest Island which shares it’s name with a particular farm bird. What’s it called? 11. What does the famous Tasmanian gallery MONA stand for?
12. Which two varieties of wine (both beginning with the letter S) is the Hunter Valley most renowned for?
13. Who is the Executive Chef at Melbourne’s Eueka 89? 14. Alice Springs (Mparntwe) is a city of approximatley how many people? 15 . Jouney Beyond’s Indian Pacific connection is a mammoth how many kilometres?
16. With around 140 bottlenose dolphins roaming its seas, which coastal region in NSW is coined the dolphin capital of Austalia? 17. Which famed Indigenous artist is the great-grandfather of Arrernte artist Vincent Namatjira? 18. The town of E_ _ _ _ _ _ in Western Australia was once a WWII naval base, and now remains a restricted Australian military site. 19. Which zesty fruit shares its name with a variety of shark? 20. Jilamara, a dotted, cross-hatched work by the late artist Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, is drawn from her home on which islands to the north of Darwin?