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Tasmania Trivia

Can you guess these facts about the Australian state of Tasmania?
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Last updated: September 3, 2024
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State capital
Hobart
The above is located at the foothills of this mountain – named for Arthur Wellesley
Mount Wellington
The capital was historically a hub for hunting this type maritime animal
Whales
Dutch explorer after whom Tasmania is named
Abel Tasman
Nicknames of Tasmania
The Holiday Isle
The Apple Isle
Strait that separates Tasmania and mainland Australia
Bass Strait
Second most populous city
Launceston
Colloquial name of Tasmania
Tassie
Carnivorous marsupial
Tasmanian Devil
Tasmania's upcoming team that is going to starting playing this sport, bearing
the name of the above, is debuting in 2025
Australian
football club
Striped carnivore that went extinct in 1936
Tasmanian Tiger
Town in which a lone gunman named Martin Bryant, shot and killed 35 people
Port Arthur
Former name of Tasmania
Van Diemen's Land
The "United Tasmania Group" was world's first political party with this ideology
Green Politics
Name one of the four largest islands of Tasmania after Tasmania itself.
Flinders | King |
Cape Barren | Bruny
Man-made reservoir that is the largest lake in Tasmania – name of a Ramsay or Brown
Lake Gordon
Mary Donaldson from Tasmania is now the Queen consort of this European country
Denmark
Period of unrest that nearly annihilated Tasmania's indigenous
population between mid-1820s–1832
Black War
If Tasmania was a separate country, this would place it as the 21st _____ country in
the world, on a GDP per capita basis
Richest
6 Comments
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Level 76
May 26, 2020
Holiday Day?
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Level 75
May 26, 2020
Ooops. Fixed it now.
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Level 59
Mar 24, 2021
Shouldn't it be "Name one of THE four largest islands?" You have 'these'.

Great quiz though, nominated.

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Level 75
Mar 24, 2021
Fixed.
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Level 55
Jun 7, 2021
Port arthur isn't really a town, it's a historical site. It once was a convict settlement with a small town for mostly guards and other prison-related peoples.
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Level 80
Sep 2, 2024
Aussie quiz and misread clue as "Ramsay", so thought well it must be Madge or maybe or Charlene or Henry or ....