Quiz
All the answers to our quiz can be found in the stories in this issue.
1. Darwin’s harbour is one of the largest in the world – how many times the size of Sydney’s is it?
2. Cygnet Bay, on Western Australia’s Dampier Peninsula, is home to one of Australia’s oldest working p_ _ _ _ farms.
3. There’s a bay in Freycinet Peninsula in Tasmania named after a certain type of drinkware. What is it called?
4. Name three films shot in the Painted Desert located north of South Australia’s Coober Pedy.
5. Approximately how many marriage proposals happen at Melbourne’s Skydeck every year?
6. Ningaloo Reef is a UNESCO-listed heritage site. True or False?
7. Mother of pearl, cowrie, volute and olive snail shells make up the walls of which church on the Kimberley coast?
8. How many plant and animal species were added to the Australian threatened species list in 2023 and 2024?
9. What is the world’s fastest big cat?
10. What is the name of the cyclone that ripped through Darwin on Christmas Eve in 1984?
11. The Umoona Mines in Coober Pedy are famous for which opalescent mineraloid gemstone?
12. What’s the world’s largest inshore reef located off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia?
13. In what season do quokka joeys make their first appearance outside of their mother’s pouch?
14. First opened in 1988, C_ _ _ _ B _ _ _ _ C _ _ _ is considered Broome’s oldest luxury resort.
15. Coincidentally sharing a first name with the New Zealand/Australian actor who played Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 Gladiator movie, what is the name of one of Tasmania’s most celebrated falls found in Mount Field National Park?