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Australian cities: fun facts - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 51 times
- The average score is 8 of 15
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| In 2016, a demolition company here bulldozed the wrong house. This eastern city has the world's biggest natural harbour. | Sydney | 86%
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| This Queensland town hosts an annual regatta called Humpybash. | Humpybong | 83%
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| The Australian city closest to Antarctica, the area is home to the Tasmanian devil. | Hobart | 76%
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| This scientific-sounding city holds a yearly regatta in which entrants build and sail in boats made from beer cans. | Darwin | 66%
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| In 1967, the country's prime minister went for a swim at a beach near the entrance to the bay here, and was never seen again. It is in the state of Victoria. | Melbourne | 62%
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| The world's most isolated big city, this is the only area inhabited by the rare quokka. | Perth | 62%
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| In 2012, two drunks kidnapped a penguin from the local Sea World and took it back to their apartment. This Queensland town was also the site of the 2018 Commonwealth Games. | Gold Coast | 59%
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| A suburb of Sydney with an indigenous name, it was mentioned in a Monty Python sketch. | Woolloomooloo | 55%
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| The only main Australian city not to have been founded as a penal colony, the city did not build a jail originally, because they thought they wouldn't need one. | Adelaide | 48%
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| This place is home to the cassowary, Australia's biggest land animal and the world's most dangerous bird; and to the world's largest moth, over 27cm wide. | Cairns | 45%
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| Australia's only big inland city. Perhaps notable as a place where nothing exciting ever happens. | Canberra | 45%
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| In the native language, this Northern Territory town is named Mparntwe and there is a nearby hill called Atnelkentyarliweke. | Alice Springs | 38%
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| Located in north-west Victoria, a wine-producing region, this town has an aboriginal name. | Tittybong | 34%
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| This place near Rockhampton in Queensland was named after a cow. | Banana | 31%
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| During World War II, this large city had the biggest US submarine base in the southern hemisphere. | Brisbane | 31%
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