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Australian cities multiple choice: Townsville - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 79 times
- The average score is 7 of 15
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| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| Townsville is home to Australia's largest... | army base | 95%
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| Which disease was first identified from samples taken in Townsville? | Ross River Fever | 84%
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| How did Townsville get its name? | After Robert Towns, who financed the first white settlement but never lived there himself | 74%
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| Queensland is big, eh? Nearly seven times bigger than Texas. Townsville is in: | North Queensland | 74%
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| How did Magnetic Island get its name? | James Cook's compass mysteriously went haywire as he sailed past in 1770 | 63%
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| Townsville is the only place in the world that is a base for what three activities? | Copper, zinc and nickel refining | 53%
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| How far short of being a mountain is Castle Hill? | 18.9 metres | 42%
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| The suburb of Belgian Gardens used to have a different name. Why was it changed? | The original name, German Gardens, went out of favour during WWI | 42%
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| Which is closest to Townsville? | Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea | 37%
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| Which of the following is held annually in Townsville? | The Australian Festival of Chamber Music | 37%
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| Townsville cannot be said to border which body of water? | Torres Strait | 37%
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| Australia's first medical research institute was established in Townsville in 1913 under the name: | Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine | 32%
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| The library at the Townsville campus of James Cook University is named after which former university employee? | Gardener Eddie Mabo | 21%
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| What was established in Townsville in 1896? | The first Japanese consulate in Australia | 16%
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| What was the Townsville mutiny? | A rebellion of hundreds of African American troops stationed there during WWII | 11%
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