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Famous Tasmanians - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 18 times
- The average score is 7 of 18
Answer Stats
| Clue | Tasmania | % Correct |
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| Convicted mass-shooter responsible for the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre. | Martin Bryant | 82%
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| Born on Bruny Island in 1812, she was incorrectly regarded as the last "full-blood" Aboriginal Tasmanian upon her death. | Truganini | 76%
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| Originally elected as a representative of the Australian Labor Party, he subsequently became the first Prime Minister from the conservative United Australia Party. | Joseph Lyons | 71%
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| Rising to prominence during the campaign against the Franklin Dam, he became the first leader of the Australian Greens. | Bob Brown | 65%
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| Swashbuckling Golden Age Hollywood star, notorious for hedonism and womanising. | Errol Flynn | 65%
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| Making his money as a professional gambler, he founded the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart. | David Walsh | 59%
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| Australian founding father and co-author of the Constitution, he was an advocate for the proportional voting system used in Tasmania to this day and bearing his name. | Andrew Inglis Clark | 53%
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| Stand-up comic notable for her LGBTQ-related material and Netflix special Nanette. | Hannah Gadsby | 35%
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| The son of a diplomat and sharing his name with Britain's most famous writer, this author settled in Tasmania after growing up in South America. | Nicholas Shakespeare | 35%
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| Winner of the 2014 Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. | Richard Flanagan | 35%
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| Actor and director, best known for his lead role in The Mentalist. | Simon Baker | 35%
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| Indian-born businessman and author, his unusual life was the subject of 2016 film Lion. | Saroo Brierley | 29%
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| Tasmanian Aboriginal seafarer, he was introduced to the Duke of Edinburgh as the "King of the Tasmanians" at the 1868 Hobart Regatta. An endangered native pine species is named after him. | William Lanne | 29%
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| A former member of the Communist Party, he became a popular Labor Premier of Tasmania from 1998 to 2004, dying from cancer shortly after leaving office. | Jim Bacon | 24%
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| A British colonial administrator in the Americas and India, he served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land, presiding over the 'Black War' against the Tasmanian Aboriginals. | George Arthur | 18%
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| The last surviving Australian veteran of the Gallipoli Campaign of WWI, he enlisted at 16 years old in 1915. | Alec Campbell | 12%
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| First Australian inductee into the International Photography Hall of Fame, his photographs were instrumental in the campaign against the Franklin Dam in the 1980s. | Peter Dombrovskis | 12%
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| A soldier, merchant, and judge in colonial New South Wales, he later settled in Van Diemen's Land after he played a key role in the Rum Rebellion to overthrow Governor William Bligh. | Anthony Fenn Kemp | 6%
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