| Clue | Answer | % Correct | |
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| E | Type of bird Australia fought a "war" against in 1932 | Emu | 100%
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| J | Country that made the attack on D | Japan | 97%
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| I | Zookeeper who died after being pierced in the chest by a stingray barb in 2006 | Steve Irwin | 97%
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| C | British explorer who charted maps of Eastern Australia | James Cook | 93%
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| P | Type of colony Australia used to be to the United Kingdom | Penal colony | 93%
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| Q | The third oldest airline in the world – after KLM and Avianca | Qantas | 93%
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| U | Climbing on this monolith was permanently banned in 2019 | Uluru | 93%
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| T | The Black War precipitated the near-extermination of the indigenous population of this island | Tasmania | 90%
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| B | Type of curved stick that was used by the Aboriginals to hunt small prey | Boomerang | 83%
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| D | Site of the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia | Darwin | 83%
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| R | World's longest fence was built to keep this invasive animal out of agricultural lands | Rabbit | 80%
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| N | The U.K. tested these in Maralinga, South Australia between 1956–1963 | Nuclear Weapons | 73%
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| O | Long before the famous one on Bennelong Point, Sydney had several entertainment venues described by this name | Opera House | 73%
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| L | Australia's name derives from this language, meaning the "unknown southern land" | Latin | 70%
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| A | National day that was first celebrated on 25 April, 1916 | Anzac Day | 63%
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| K | The world’s very first full-length feature film, actually made in Australia, was about this notable outlaw | Ned Kelly | 63%
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| Y | Cyril Callister invented Vegemite from mainly this ingredient in 1922 | Yeast extract | 63%
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| G | First and only female prime minister of Australia to this date | Julia Gillard | 53%
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| V | Name that was originally given to T by Abel Tasman | {Van} {Diemen}’{s} Land | 53%
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| F | Name of the first British ships that arrived in Australia | First Fleet | 47%
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| S | Children of the Aboriginals that were forcibly removed from their families | {Stolen} Generations | 47%
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| H | Australia's iconic domestic car brand, which ceased local manufacturing in 2017 | Holden | 43%
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| M | Taxonomic name for the platypus and echidna that was coined by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – Greek for "single-hole" | Monotreme | 40%
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| Z | Company that got merged to form Rio Tinto in 1962 – world's fourth largest mining company by revenue today: Consolidated ____ | Zinc | 33%
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| X | Queenslander beer brand that got its name through how brewers historically used "X" to mark the strength and quality of their ale | XXXX | 30%
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| W | Set of historical laws that aimed to forbid people of non-European ethnic origin from immigrating to Australia | White Australia | 27%
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