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🇦🇺 Australia, Primary and Secondary

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10 questions. Get 8 right to earn 10 minutes. All 10 right = +5 bonus. They start easy and get harder as you go, so treat the first few as a warm-up. Every one you miss comes back with the answer and why.

1. What is the capital city of Victoria?

MelbourneBallaratSydneyGeelong

2. Which slow moving Australian animal spends much of its day sleeping in eucalyptus trees and eating their leaves?

DingoKoalaKangarooEmu

3. Unlike in many countries, voting in Australian federal elections is what for enrolled adult citizens?

Optional but rewardedOnly for landownersOnly for people over 30Compulsory

4. What is the capital city of South Australia?

AdelaideWhyallaDarwinAlice Springs

5. What is the word for the six colonies joining together in 1901 to form one country?

FederationIndependenceConfederationColonisation

6. Before Federation in 1901, Australia was made up of how many separate British colonies?

TenThreeSixTwo

7. Wombats are known for producing what unusually shaped droppings, thought to help stop them rolling away?

TriangularStar shapedRoundCube shaped

8. How many states make up Australia?

EightFourSixTen

9. Which flightless Australian bird, the second tallest bird in the world, has strong legs built for fast running across open country?

EmuKiwiCassowaryKookaburra

10. Australia's system of voting for the House of Representatives asks voters to do what with the candidates, rather than just choosing one?

Vote twice on two separate daysNumber every candidate in order of preferenceChoose exactly two candidatesVote only for a party, not a person

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