Quiz
All the answers to our quiz can be found in the stories in this issue.
1. Tasmania is situated within the Aurora Oval, the geographic region where the Aurora Australis can be seen. True or False?
2. Located in the Red Centre, what is the world’s largest monolith?
3. In 1946, an Australian geologist found unique imprints in the ancient seabeds of the Ediacaran Hills, in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. What is his name?
4. Which Australian indie rock band used the bus from the iconic Aussie film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert as their tour bus?
5. What year was Old Wilpena Station in South Australia’s Ikara-Flinders Ranges built?
6. How many metres tall is Punamii-unpuu (Mitchell Falls), the four-tiered waterfall in the Kimberley region of Western Australia?
7. The W _ _ _ _ _ _ _ people have been custodians of Western Australia’s Ngauwudu (the Mitchell Plateau) region for more than 70,000 years.
8. Who is the Executive Chef at Eureka 89, Melbourne Skydeck’s restaurant towering 300 metres above sea level?
9. When the Overland Telegraph Line was completed in 1872 in Alice Springs, it transmitted messages to which capital city in Australia and two continents beyond Australia?
10. Which museum in Birdwood, South Australia houses Bigfoot, aka the Andamooka Buggy, from the Aussie film Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome?
11. Where in Australia might you find the oldest static sand dunes (and longest parallel dunes) on Earth?
12. Turtles rely on m_ _ _ l _ _ _ _ to navigate themselves.
13. What year was the township of Stuart officially renamed Alice Springs?
14. Officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1973, the iconic Sydney Opera House was designed by a Danish architect. What is his name?
15. Which century does Northern Australian rock art suggests that Australian pearl shells were valued by others when they were collected by fishermen from Makassar in Indonesia?
16. What are the six indigenous seasons of the Noongar people of the south-west region of Western Australia?
17. The Australian cultured pearl industry began in K_ _ i B_ y, about 370 kilometres north of Broome, in 1956.