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.
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)
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
> 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)
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.
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!
interior regions of Australia": The Outback
"Like the above, but not as remote": The . . . Inback?
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.
12003 points, 13000 here we come ( in about 1,5 year haha)
Didn't know the Nullarbor plain one though...
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.
Maybe reword the question: "Plain in South Australia named after its lack of trees" - "Nullarbor"
Rewording the question so that 'Nullarbor' is the answer you have to give, stops it from being obvious. That's the point.
As at the moment, velociraptors, chinese takeaway etc are indeed technically correct answers
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia_by_population
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne
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.
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)