Australian cities multiple choice: Ballina

Do you know the NSW city of Ballina?

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1. In what way is the city centre of Ballina unique among Australian cities and towns?

It covers a whole island ✓

It is inside a national park ✓

It was first settled by Germans ✓

All the streets are one-way roads ✓

2. What's the name of the community radio station?

Paradise ✓

Fresh Air ✓

Heartland ✓

Voice of Ballina ✓

3. Why did the first settlers move to Ballina?

Whaling ✓

To build a road ✓

To cut and mill cedar ✓

To make a wayfaring stop between Sydney and Brisbane ✓

4. What is at Burns Point?

The zoo ✓

A lighthouse ✓

Eagle eyries ✓

A cable ferry ✓

5. There is a plaque, and there used to be a festival, to commemorate which pilot's reaching Australia at Ballina in 1928?

Bert Hinkler ✓

Amelia Earhart ✓

Nancy Bird Walton ✓

Charles Kingsford Smith ✓

6. A Ballina landmark is the world's largest...

prawn ✓

bicycle ✓

merino ✓

banana ✓

7. Why was the railway line closed?

Flood damage ✓

Lack of patronage ✓

It disrupted stock routes ✓

The opening of the Pacific Highway ✓

8. What was the first ship to arrive at the place where Ballina now stands?

HMS Bounty ✓

HMS Supply ✓

HMS Rainbow ✓

HMS Endeavour ✓

9. Ballina is in what region of New South Wales?

Central Coast ✓

Blue Mountains ✓

Northern Rivers ✓

Central Tablelands ✓

10. What is Ballina Byron Gateway?

A hotel ✓

An airport ✓

A freeway ✓

A shopping centre ✓

11. Which of these waterways does not flow through Ballina?

Chickiba Creek ✓

Emigrant Creek ✓

Deadman's Creek ✓

Cabbage Tree Creek ✓

12. Ballina has Australia's smallest what?

Pub ✓

Mosque ✓

Marsupial species ✓

Licensed post office ✓

13. Which river runs through Ballina?

Tweed ✓

Gwydir ✓

Clarence ✓

Richmond ✓

14. The Naval and Maritime Museum features a raft that was sailed to Ballina from which country?

USA ✓

Tonga ✓

France ✓

Ecuador ✓

15. What are Sharpes, Angels and Boulder?

Beaches ✓

Football teams ✓

Shopping centres ✓

Nineteenth century pubs ✓

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