Melbourne True or False?

Can you guess whether these statements about Melbourne are true or false?

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1. Melbourne served as Australia's first capital

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The Australian parliament sat in Melbourne until moving to Canberra in 1927

2. Melbourne is home to the tallest building in Australia

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The tallest building in Australia is Q1 on the Gold Coast

3. Melbourne has the largest tram (streetcar) network in the world

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The second-largest is St Petersburg's

4. Melbourne is the world's southernmost city with a population of over one million

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5. Melbourne was established by British colonists from New South Wales

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Melbourne was established by British colonists from Tasmania

6. Melbourne has a higher population than the US state of Arizona

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Melbourne has a population of 5 million; Arizona has a population of 7 million

7. The MCG is larger than any stadium in Europe

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The MCG has a capacity of over 100,000; Europe's largest stadium, Camp Nou, seats 99,354

8. Melbourne is the setting of the soap opera Neighbours

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9. It occasionally snows in Melbourne

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Snowfall is not uncommon in the outer suburbs and has been known to fall on skyscrapers in the central city

10. Nearly all the teams in the Australian Football League are based in Melbourne

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Only half of AFL teams are based in Melbourne

11. Melbourne has the largest Greek-born population of any city outside Greece or Cyprus

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12. The Melbourne Cup has the highest prize money of any horse race in Australia

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The Everest in Sydney is higher

13. You can catch a ferry from Melbourne to Tasmania

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As of 2022, the Spirit of Tasmania's Victorian port is in Geelong

14. The Australian Open has always been held in Melbourne

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It has been held in several other cities in Australia and New Zealand

15. The first British shots of World War I were fired in Melbourne

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On 5 August 1914 a warning shot was fired across the bows of a German merchant vessel attempting to leave Port Philip after the British declaration of war

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