Australia Country Quiz

Can you guess these facts about the country of Australia?

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Last updated: May 19, 2020

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First submitted	September 16, 2012
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Question	Answer
Capital of Australia	Canberra
Most populous city	Sydney
Largest island	Tasmania
Landmark also known as Ayers Rock	Uluru
New South Wales was originally founded as a ...	Penal Colony
Name that Dutch explorer Abel Tasman gave to Australia	New Holland
Holiday celebrated the 26th January	Australia Day
National anthem	Advance Australia Fair
Echidnas are one type of "monotreme". What is the other?	Platypuses
Sometimes called the world's most venomous creature	Box Jellyfish

Question	Answer
Term for the vast, remote, interior regions of Australia	The Outback
Like the above, but not as remote	The Bush
The two animals that appear on Australia's coat of arms	Emu
The two animals that appear on Australia's coat of arms	Kangaroo
National gemstone	Opal
Brand of yeast extract spread	Vegemite
State which begins with Q	Queensland
The indigenous people of the Australian mainland	Aboriginal Australians
World's largest coral reef	Great Barrier Reef
What you won't find in South Australia's Nullarbor Plain	Trees

+66

Level 85

May 19, 2020

"Term for the vast, remote,

interior regions of Australia": The Outback

"Like the above, but not as remote": The . . . Inback?

Level 63

Jul 12, 2020

Haha, that is exactly what I thought!

Level 55

Aug 7, 2020

Tried setback

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Level 88

Aug 12, 2020

Maybe the outfront? ;)

Level 82

Aug 25, 2020

The Half-back?

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Level 37

Aug 25, 2020

quarterback?

Level 85

Aug 25, 2021

Hunchback

Level 33

Apr 20, 2022

I am from australia, 19/20 the monotreme one stumped me

Level 55

Jun 10, 2022

Did you know what it?(an egg-laying mammal essentially)

Level 72

May 20, 2020

Could you allow 'convict colony'? As in, "You all live in a ..."

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Level 75

May 21, 2020

I'm assuming "Ayers Rock" being accepted as a "landmark known as Ayers Rock" is a mistake

Level ∞

May 21, 2020

Fixed

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Level 74

Aug 25, 2020

Naughty of you for trying it!

+16

Level 67

May 21, 2020

National holiday of Australia - Australia Day. I can't believe I missed that one!

Level 65

May 27, 2020

It is almost the least guessed one!

I missed it too... but I guessed "fair" right! I was looking away when typing it (cat business) and when I looked back to the screen and saw it was accepted, I think I made a pretty weird face haha.

Level 65

May 27, 2020

Made me reach 67 btw, and now I see it's a daunting 1000 points to the next level ( not that I play for levels, if I get one point on a level I get one point, I am not then gonna replay it to get them all. I might come across it again months later though, usually forgotten that I have taken it haha)

12003 points, 13000 here we come ( in about 1,5 year haha)

Level 62

Aug 25, 2020

3 Months Later, Still at Level 67... I appreciate your honesty

Level 63

Mar 9, 2022

1 year, 10 month later, still at level 67

Level 61

Jan 5, 2022

I couldn't believe I got that one on a guess!

Level 66

Jan 11, 2022

Still level 67!

Level 50

Apr 21, 2023

Now level 66.

Level 65

May 21, 2020

Nice quiz. I enjoyed it.

Level 67

Jun 3, 2020

Very easy for an Aussie.

Didn't know the Nullarbor plain one though...

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Level 70

Jul 14, 2020

Null = zero; arbor = trees

Level 28

Oct 1, 2022

thats funny cos we don't pronounce it like that.

Level 45

May 15, 2023

I was typing 'water' for my answer. Its indigenous name was Oondiri, which means 'waterless'

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Level 69

Jul 4, 2020

It's debatable that NSW was established solely as a penal colony. What's not debatable is that it was established as a British colony.

Also, there's no real requirement for "the bush" to be remote, vast, or interior. Pretty much any National Park, forest (regardless of size or location) or grassland would count, although "the bush" is sometimes used as a generality for non-desert regional Australia.

I grew up playing in "the bush" which I reached from my house in Sydney by walking to the end of my street. It's really just a term for any reasonable chunk of undeveloped land, so as an Australian, that was actually the hardest question for me - I had to think "What misconceptions might an American have?" to get it.

Level 69

Jul 27, 2020

As an Australia here, also, I disagree on both counts. NSW was founded as a penal colony. It didn't take long before it grew to be more, but the intent was somewhere to send the convicts. As to the bush - no. There are national parks in the capitals, they're not The Bush. The Bush is regional outside of cities - go between Tamworth and Broken Hill, you're in The Bush.

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Level 72

Aug 26, 2020

Wow, you're an Australia? I thought there was only one!

Level 38

Mar 1, 2023

Don't worry i'm here too!

Level 74

Aug 25, 2020

Agree about the bush, I wasn't expecting something so colloquial

Level 52

Aug 9, 2020

The Nullarbor spans both SA and WA. Though having driven across it I'll concede that the truly treeless part is mostly on the SA side.

Level 55

Dec 26, 2020

There signs at both ends of the treeless plain. Both in SA

Level 73

Aug 12, 2020

I tried New Netherlands for the Tasman question,, knew it was something like that.

Level 89

Aug 25, 2020

Hmm. I didn't do as well as I hoped on this one.

Level 67

Aug 25, 2020

Nine-hundred dollareedoos?!?!?!

Level 83

Aug 25, 2020

Australia Day... :P ... I tried... National, Founders, Founding, Presidents, Independence, Landing, Queens, Kings, Commonwealth... I think National day ought to work. WIkipedia says it is also known as Foundation Day, and Invasion Day or National Day of Mourning (by those who see the presence of "white" people as cause for mourning, I guess).

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Level 52

Aug 25, 2020

Given that British colonisation decimated and destroyed Aboriginal society, that Australia is the only Commonwealth nation which has never signed a treaty with its native peoples, that Australia imprisons Aboriginal men at a higher rate than apartheid South Africa imprisoned black men, and that racism (particularly anti-Aboriginal racism) is rampant in every sphere of Australian life: yes, I think there are some Australians who justifiably see the arrival of the First Fleet as cause for mourning and consider centering our national holiday on that specific date to be inappropriate.

Level 75

Jul 8, 2023

Yes. Good point... although I think they should all count their blessings a little as well. It could have been the Mongols, the Huns or the Spanish who invaded... a little earlier when people were a lot less civilised.

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Level 88

Aug 25, 2020

I'd be pretty mournful if the country I lived in had a national holiday to celebrate the arrival of a group of people who massacred my ancestors. Just couldn't resist spouting your usual garbage could you kal.

Level 72

Aug 26, 2020

Wait, what? That was uncalled for...

Level 83

Aug 25, 2020

ha. yeah. truth. I can't resist "spouting" it. You people are simultaneously sad, depressing and hilarious. Your hateful and tribal way of looking at the world and interpreting history will hopefully some day be a relic of a darker past.

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Level 88

Aug 30, 2020

'You people' wow thats some great rhetoric skills you've got there. Yeh just ignore what I said and make a bunch of blanket statements that don't make any sense. It says a lot about you as a person that you get defensive when I simply recognise the fact that some of my fellow citizens have historically been treated very poorly and continue to be mistreated. Feel free to visit Australia and see the terrible living conditions that many aboriginals still endure. I've read enough comments from you on this site to know that you're incapable of self-reflection, so enjoy being narrow minded for the rest of your life. Or maybe you're always right and all your opinions are infallible, who knows?

Level 83

Sep 1, 2020

It makes sense. Try reading it again. Who knows maybe you'll figure out that you're not right about something. Or learn to seek clarification first when you don't understand something before resorting to insults. Fingers crossed.

Level 83

Aug 25, 2020

That being said, it seems like January 1st, the date of federation of the Australian Commonwealth and beginning of the path toward independence from Britain, would make a lot more sense as a day to celebrate Australian nationhood than the date of the arrival of the First Fleet. Maybe they should change it to that. Except that it's the same date as New Year's Day so that would kinda suck. They could change it to October 9th to commemorate passage of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act.

Level 52

Aug 27, 2020

Yes, I find it irritating that our founding fathers were so shortsighted as to put Federation Day on a day that was already a holiday. Ideally we could become a republic and/or sign a treaty with Indigenous Australians, or both at once (but not a chance of either under the current government), and if I had my druthers it would still be at some point in summer. Nobody wants to celebrate Australia in winter.

Level 72

Oct 23, 2020

Why should a wrong answer work? It isn't called National Day.

Level 79

Aug 8, 2021

So a topic that you didn't didn't know the name of, you are now apparently a self-declared expert in, so much so that you are happy to tell other countries how they should conduct themselves?

Level 70

Aug 25, 2020

Isn't Marmite a yeast extract spread?

Level 68

Aug 25, 2020

Yes, but I think vegemite is more popular in Australia. Personally I prefer marmite.

Level 59

Sep 12, 2020

Marmite is the British (and original) brand

Level 44

Oct 22, 2020

While Vegemite is the best known, there are a number of products of this sort in Australia - Promite, Mighty Mite, Aussiemite, Marmite (which used to be made in Australia, but is now made in NZ)... And while Marmite was originally a British product, the Australia/NZ product of the same name is not the same product.

Level 68

Aug 25, 2020

100%. Had to think a bit for the last one though. Sharks? Water? People? Plants?

Level 78

Aug 25, 2020

State that begins with Q - Quarantine?

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Level 60

Aug 25, 2020

That’s a current state of Australia, to be fair.

Level 67

Aug 26, 2020

Easy peasy for an Aussie, but the bush had me scratching my head for about five seconds.

Level 41

Aug 27, 2020

Probably won't find any ocelots, velociraptors or Chinese takeouts on the Nullarbor either.

Maybe reword the question: "Plain in South Australia named after its lack of trees" - "Nullarbor"

Level 83

Aug 29, 2020

well if you look at the name... "null arbor"... it becomes kind of obvious

Level 41

Aug 29, 2020

You don't need to explain it to me, bud.

Rewording the question so that 'Nullarbor' is the answer you have to give, stops it from being obvious. That's the point.

Level 83

Sep 1, 2020

So word your comments so that they don't require explanation, bud. The question is supposed to be possible to answer with a bit of thought. That's obviously the point.

Level 37

Apr 24, 2023

You can still rephrase it to something like "Nullarbor Plain is characteristic by its lack of what?".

As at the moment, velociraptors, chinese takeaway etc are indeed technically correct answers

Level 71

Oct 21, 2020

"ornithorhynchus" should be accepted.

Level 74

Jan 26, 2022

Why? Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever saw a platypus and said "oh look, an ornithorhynchus!".

Level 72

Oct 23, 2020

Not many Latin speakers among us.

Level 70

Jan 15, 2021

I should know by now that in these quizzes you should always try the country name, hoping it's a solution to something. Mount Cameroon and Australia Day.

Level 37

Apr 16, 2021

Why did I get The Bush but not The Outback

Level 88

Aug 10, 2021

January 26th is also National Peanut Brittle Day, just to be clear.

Level 28

Aug 13, 2021

i cant be sure but im pretty sure i wont find jamaica in the nullabor plains.

Level 43

Aug 23, 2021

Typing Australia for the island question knowing it won’t work and getting another answer :)

Level 54

May 9, 2022

It was a dutch colony

Level 32

Jun 17, 2022

You must accept survival day or invasion day on the Australia day question Australia day is a racist holiday

Level 40

Apr 21, 2023

Yeah, nah.

Level 65

Aug 5, 2022

pretty easy being a kiwi (not an Aussie!)

Level 57

Feb 19, 2023

20/20 and from UK. Just smashed my way into the top 11.9%

Level 40

Apr 21, 2023

Hello,

Good quiz, but as of this week it is slightly out of date:

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/melbourne-sydney-population-intl-scli/index.html#:~:text=Melbourne%20has%20overtaken%20Sydney%20to,Sydney%2C%20CNN%20affiliate%209News%20reports.

Thanks a lot

Level 74

Apr 21, 2023

Melbourne is now bigger than Sydney.. per the 2021 census results released this week.

Level ∞

Apr 21, 2023

Wikipedia seems to think otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia_by_population

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne

Level 77

Apr 21, 2023

But not according to changes made by the Australian Bureau of Statistics a few days ago as reported by multiple news sources:

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/melbourne-snatches-the-crown-from-sydney-as-australias-biggest-city/news-story/de86eaa15e861c13dd6e54d53336ece9

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65261720

https://www.smh.com.au/national/melbourne-tops-sydney-as-australia-s-biggest-city-on-a-technicality-20230413-p5d04g.html

Since the official governmental body counting these things says its Melbourne, we may have to accept Melbourne.

Level ∞

Apr 21, 2023

The news articles are wrong as usual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sydney

> I hear Melbourne has overtaken Sydney. Should we change that? VenomousConcept (talk) 11:03, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

> Don't believe everything you hear! The ABS uses a couple of different definitions of city populations. On one of these definitions Melbourne has overtaken Sydney simply because they've changed the boundaries. On the definition we consistently use in all articles on Australian cities, Sydney remains ahead.[7]https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/regional-population/latest-release The issue should be discussed, but it's not a good idea to change definitions and articles according to the media news cycle. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 11:09, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Level 36

Apr 22, 2023

No it's not. It's just that Melbourne wants to add Melton. The Wikipedia discussion is becoming a literal war though because for some reason people are suggesting that we change our measurement of the largest city. Sydney is still larger and undeniably it's larger by a decent margin in terms of greater urban area. Greater Sydney has almost five and a half million people. Greater Melbourne just makes the five million mark on the other hand.

Level 83

Apr 21, 2023

Apparently "kangaroo day" is not a holiday in Australia. It did get me a coat of arms answer, though.

Level 89

Apr 21, 2023

Hey Quizmaster, it's past time that Qld became a standard and acceptable type-in for the state of Queensland.

Level 36

Apr 22, 2023

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi, oi, oi!

Level 70

Apr 23, 2023

I would say that at least one person would get thrown off by the blurb showing on the front page: “196 countries, 196 quizzes. Day xx, Australia.” as the country quiz marathon happened nearly three years ago. Please revert the blurbs for the country quizzes to normal!

Level ∞

Apr 23, 2023

Fixed!

Level 28

Apr 26, 2023

A Platypus? Perry the Platypus!!!