Australian cities multiple choice: Geraldton

How well do you know sunny Geraldton?

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1. Who was Gerald?

St Gerald of Mayo ✓

Overland explorer Thomas Robertson Gerald ✓

Charles Fitzgerald, 4th Governor of Western Australia ✓

Gerald Mahoney, who owned the first hotel in the district ✓

2. The distance between Perth and Geraldton via the Brand Highway is:

172 km (106.9 miles) ✓

418.6 km (260.1 miles) ✓

983.6 km (611.2 miles) ✓

1,047.2 km (650.7 miles) ✓

3. Geraldton is in what region of Western Australia

Pilbara ✓

Mid West ✓

Gascoyne ✓

Kimberley ✓

4. The Dome of Souls (pictured) is made of 645 stainless steel seagulls, representing what?

The crew of HMAS Sydney who died in a naval battle during WWII ✓

The Geraldton residents who died while on active service during WWI ✓

Irish migrants, mainly children, who were resettled in Geraldton during the Great Famine ✓

The birds who make an annual migration from the south coast of Western Australia to the Houtman Abrolhos ✓

5. What is the Houtman Abrolhos?

A bay ✓

An estuary ✓

A coral reef ✓

Botanic gardens ✓

6. What is the main export that departs from the Port of Geraldton?

Zinc ✓

Grain ✓

Iron ore ✓

Livestock ✓

7. Which is not a suburb of Geraldton?

Woorree ✓

Beachlands ✓

Coconut Grove ✓

Mahomets Flats ✓

8. What was discovered in the Murchison River in 1848?

Gold ✓

Lead ✓

Sleepy cod ✓

A chest of Dutch silver ducats ✓

9. What is at the local CSIRO facility?

A geothermal research centre ✓

A radio-astronomy observatory ✓

A marine science research station ✓

The Research Institute for Precious Metals and Metal Chemistry ✓

10. Who built the Old Gaol?

Convicts ✓

British soldiers ✓

Dutch seafarers ✓

Aboriginal labourers ✓

11. The first steel tower constructed in mainland Australia, the Point Moore Lighthouse, was prefabricated where?

Calcutta, India ✓

Birmingham, UK ✓

Newcastle, NSW, Australia ✓

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA ✓

12. What colour is Hutt Lagoon?

Pink ✓

Blue ✓

White ✓

Green ✓

13. The Museum of Geraldton has a particular strength in...

Insects ✓

Millinery ✓

Shipwrecks ✓

Desert ecosystems ✓

14. What is the peculiar natural feature that can be seen from the Brand Highway near Greenough?

A petrified forest ✓

The Greenough Meteor Crater ✓

The leaning trees of Greenough ✓

A waterfall flowing into the ocean ✓

15. What are Midalias, Backers and Glennies?

Beaches ✓

Wildflowers ✓

Cricket clubs ✓

Racecourses ✓

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