Australia A-Z

Really? Only 34% got Billabong? I got it straight away. I missed 6 (Ugg, Yellow, Rabbit, Neighbours because I hate it, Golden and Station) and I'm Australian! Patriotic shame

Really great quiz!!!!!!!!!!! i got them all perfect. I studied australia

In outback Australia areas such as Arnhem Land, Northern Territory etc. a billabong is a pond left behind when a river dries up. The monsoonal rains have these rivers running for a few months, then eventually when the rains stop, the rivers stop running and deeper locations along the course form ponds. These too will slowly evaporate unless quite deep. Generally when bathing in these billabongs the top 2 feet is quite warm, below that they are icy cold. Sometimes rivers flood their banks and form secondary channels and billabongs can occur along those, but not usually as deep as in the primary channel.

My son chose Waltzing Matilda as the subject of a school report about Australia, and we learned the lyrics which is the only reason this American got both Matilda and billabong. Too bad there wasn't anything in the lyrics about Neighbours or Golden Wattle. :)

You beauty 100%. Fantastic Quiz!!!

Nice quiz! Finally a quiz I get all correct first pop.

Good quiz, if you enjoyed this try my 'Australia Quiz' for another all round challenge.

Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't lakes formed from the changing course of a river called "Oxbow" lakes?

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One of these days I will remember the name of that danged soap opera. Also, I got this right by randomly guessing adjectives, but what is a long black? (Or a flat white, for that matter?)

Made a correct guess, but never realised the golden wattle was the national flower. I would've assumed it was the banksia. Which it should be, really, since it's far more distinctive and unlike the wattle is found in every state.

I'd put Queensland beer as the question for letter X

i tried irvin for irwin, might that be accepted?

"Aboriginies" is the collective noun while "aboriginal" is an adjective (eg Aboriginal land, Aboriginal artefact). Suggest accepting both but displaying "Aboriginies".

G'day mate! You beauty! I was flat out mate, like a lizard drinkin'. Crikey! I'm a fair dinkum' Aussie, but blimey! Thought I was a dag! But I'm stoked! I knew I was in for a ripper this arvo. Now I can go treat myself to some tucker. I had heaps of pressure coz I was bustin for the dunny the whole time, mate. Nah, mate. I got em all with ages left.

Couldn't work out why Echidna and Koala weren't working.

I always thought a billabong was some sort of pot/pan because of the first verse of waltzing Matilda (where he waited till his billy boiled) thinking billy was short for billabong, a word I'd heard later in the song. Having looked it up I now know it's short for billycan. And having looked at the full lyrics the meanings make a lot more sense to me :)

I was hoping Vegemite would be on here. Oh well :)

I'm Australian, but wouldn't have got the wine one without the letter Y. I could probably do without being reminded of the soap opera. Good quiz though.

For XXXX, there's this brand of beer...they spent more on advertising than on the product, I think, but it's pretty famous.

Aboriginals aren't exclusive to Australia though

In 1981 Mrs. Bragg's first grade class in the US did a unit on Australia and we learned the words to Waltzing Matilda and that gave me two answers right there because I've wanted to see a billabong ever since.

100%! Super easy for an Aussie, ha.