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Australia... or New Zealand?

Choose whether each statement applies to Australia, New Zealand, or both.
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First submittedNovember 11, 2019
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1. Has the larger land area
Australia
New Zealand
2. Has the Southern Cross (Crux) on its flag
Australia
New Zealand
Both
3. Received British convicts at colonial penal settlements
Australia
New Zealand
Both
4. Has more sheep than people
Australia
New Zealand
Both
5. Fought in World War I and World War II
Australia
New Zealand
Both
6. Has indigenous marsupial mammals
Possums were introduced to New Zealand by humans
Australia
New Zealand
Both
7. Has the highest mountain of the two countries
New Zealand's Mount Cook is 3724 m
Australia
New Zealand
8. Has indigenous flightless terrestrial birds
Australia
New Zealand
Both
9. Has the most glaciers of the two countries
Australia's Heard Island has 41 glaciers but New Zealand's South Island has over 3000 glaciers
Australia
New Zealand
10. Has an indigenous language as one of its official languages
Australia
New Zealand
11. Was the first modern-day country to adopt women's suffrage
Australia 1902; New Zealand 1893
Australia
New Zealand
12. Its capital is not one of its five largest cities
Canberra is Australia's 7th largest city. Wellington is the second largest city in New Zealand.
Australia
New Zealand
Both
13. Has won the Rugby World Cup
Australia
New Zealand
Both
14. Has been inhabited for longer
Australia has been inhabited for tens of thousands of years, but New Zealand has only been inhabited since around 1300 AD
Australia
New Zealand
15. Has the higher average temperature
Australia: 21.65 °C. New Zealand: 10.55 °C.
Australia
New Zealand
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38 Comments
Underneath
+2
Level 21
Jan 10, 2020
Done!
BerserkBlast
+3
Level 31
Sep 25, 2020
Really good quiz and I really like it!!
joeythelemur
+3
Level 82
Jun 23, 2022
Surprised that only 20% knew the sheep question.
YouLoveEagle
+1
Level 49
Jul 28, 2022
Me too, now it’s 25% or just 1/4 of the people who got it correct, I mean only like around 30 million people lives in Australia
quantummidget
+14
Level 34
Jul 28, 2022
Fun fact, Australia actually has a higher number of sheep per capita than New Zealand.

Wales has the highest number of half-man half-sheep hybrids due to historical breeding practices.

wassallthatabout
+3
Level 63
Jul 28, 2022
That made me laugh out loud - I went to uni in Aberystwyth, heard some dodgy stories!!!
OdamMaloof
+7
Level 55
Jul 31, 2022
quantummidget, 5.1 sheep per capita in NZ is higher than 3.3 in Australia, there are more in Australia but it is higher per capita in NZ
soobinxe
+3
Level 21
Jul 30, 2022
i only knew new zealand had more, just found out abt australia rn
blizzrd33
+6
Level 80
Jun 23, 2022
Wohoo, first feature!
phalocrocorax
+9
Level 84
Jun 24, 2022
Nice quiz. It might be worth offering "both" as an option for the official languages question, since it would be a plausible guess IMO.
Findlay
+10
Level 81
Jun 24, 2022
Agreed. I think any question where both is a possible answer it should be offered.
Jerry928
+3
Level 76
Jun 25, 2022
"Higher" when you choose between two options and "highest" when it's a choice between three or more options.
GreenFriday
+7
Level 85
Dec 10, 2023
There are more than two mountains, so "Highest" is more appropriate in this instance
Nerd0921
+4
Level 75
Jul 28, 2022
While New Zealand never received convicts as a penal colony to the extent the Australians did, New Zealand for a brief period did see incoming penal labour.

In 1839 after the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand was made a part of New South Wales - the Australian State - and remained so until 1841. In this brief period, New Zealand received prisoners just like Australia until 1841, when New Zealand became a separate colony and deported those convicts back to Australia.

blizzrd33
+8
Level 80
Jul 28, 2022
The question was specifically worded to include 'penal settlements' and there were no settlements founded in New Zealand which were penal settlements for the primary purpose of receiving convicts. The convicts that were deported back to Australia in 1841 had absconded from Australia in the first place and then claimed to be whalers and sealers on arrival in New Zealand.
kiwiquizzer
+3
Level 68
Jul 28, 2022
Thank goodness I got them all!
fredbrandt
+1
Level 76
Jul 28, 2022
I have read that New Zealand was one of the last land colonised by the polynésian !!
AiJiyao
+1
Level 67
Jul 28, 2022
Note to myself: INhabited = HAS people.
Eagle12
+1
Level 55
Jul 28, 2022
For #6 - an introduced population is not indigenous.
blizzrd33
+5
Level 80
Jul 29, 2022
The explanatory text in italics is there to explain just that.
Emrevere
+1
Level 21
Jul 29, 2022
sad. didn't pass.
MrBizzaros
+3
Level 59
Aug 3, 2022
Ok... how on Earth did 18% of people get the sheep one correct? 18%?!? They probably just skimmed over the question and clicked New Zealand because of all the memes, but only 18% of people got this right? What?!
reverendmeat
+3
Level 84
Oct 25, 2022
so what?
MPK93
+4
Level 49
May 15, 2023
I (and obviously many more people) didn't know that Australia had that many sheep...
blizzrd33
+1
Level 80
May 15, 2023
There are currently slightly more than three sheep in Australia for every person.
Iscannon
+2
Level 45
Apr 4, 2025
Yeah I really didn't think that one through. Nor the flightless birds one. Forgot about Emus.
Kolius
+1
Level 42
Jun 12, 2025
I feel so dumb for missing the birds
blizzrd33
+1
Level 80
Jun 12, 2025
In addition to emus, Australia also has the cassowary and the Lord Howe woodhen.
peardestroyer
+2
Level 63
Jan 15, 2023
Great quiz, and congrats on the feature!
RJG
+2
Level 63
Feb 22, 2023
13/15, very surprised Australia has that amount of sheep
grantdon
+2
Level 74
Apr 6, 2025
Australia has vastly more area suited to sheep grazing, and up until around the late 1980s, wool was one of its biggest exports.

Sadly the international wool market is not what it was, but sheepmeats continue to be strong so the industry persists

Sabado33
+1
Level 32
Jun 23, 2023
Your quiz maked me get a Blue Screen Of Death when i finished the quiz >:(
blizzrd33
+5
Level 80
Jun 25, 2023
Not the quiz's fault (there's nothing wrong at this end). Good luck with fixing your computer though.
Kearsarge
+4
Level 68
Dec 10, 2023
Fun fact, if Antarctic claims are included, Australia has the higher elevations. Dome Argus, the high point of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is over 4000 meters and is located in the Australian claim. Your mileage may vary on if it is an actual mountain though, that elevation is all ice, and the high point is just the top of a unnoticable rise in the surrounding terrain. The highest mountain in Australian claims, Mount McClintock, is shorter than Mount Cook in New Zealand.

The highest point in the New Zealand claim, (Ross Dependency) is Mount Erebus, which is slightly taller than Mount Cook, but shorter than the measured elevation of Dome Argus.

qwertyyyyyyyyyy
+1
Level 20
Nov 16, 2024
I'm both Kiwi and Aussie...

...

and yet I got 5 wrong

blizzrd33
+1
Level 80
Mar 6, 2025
I have family on either side of the Tasman but honestly have never before heard anyone announce that they are both Kiwi and Aussie. I have sometimes called myself a West Islander.
qwertyyyyyyyyyy
+1
Level 20
Nov 16, 2024
But I fail to believe Australia has ever won any rugby world cups :)
LoneStar
+1
Level 53
Apr 7, 2025
That difference in average temperature is wild.
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