Australian cities multiple choice: Townsville

How much do you know about the magnetic city of Townsville?

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1. Queensland is big, eh? Nearly seven times bigger than Texas. Townsville is in:

North Queensland ✓

Central Queensland ✓

Far North Queensland ✓

Southeast Queensland ✓

2. How did Townsville get its name?

After a town in Wales ✓

Three neighbouring towns were gazetted together to form a new city ✓

After American architect Ithiel Town, who designed the central streetscape ✓

After Robert Towns, who financed the first white settlement but never lived there himself ✓

3. Townsville is home to Australia's largest...

clock ✓

army base ✓

botanic garden ✓

desalination plant ✓

4. Which disease was first identified from samples taken in Townsville?

Hendra virus ✓

Dengue Fever ✓

Ross River Fever ✓

Australian Bat Lyssavirus ✓

5. How far short of being a mountain is Castle Hill?

5.8 metres ✓

18.9 metres ✓

27.1 metres ✓

0.12 metres ✓

6. Townsville cannot be said to border which body of water?

Coral Sea ✓

Torres Strait ✓

Cleveland Bay ✓

South Pacific Ocean ✓

7. How did Magnetic Island get its name?

It is shaped like a horseshoe magnet ✓

Its freshwater streams contain a species of electric eel ✓

There are significant iron concentrations in the island's soil ✓

James Cook's compass mysteriously went haywire as he sailed past in 1770 ✓

8. What was established in Townsville in 1896?

James Cook University ✓

Australia's first Ferris wheel ✓

The first Japanese consulate in Australia ✓

The first Woolworths family grocery store ✓

9. Townsville is the only place in the world that is a base for what three activities?

Copper, zinc and nickel refining ✓

Scuba diving, bungee jumping and rock climbing ✓

The licensed sale of gold, cattle, and tropical fish ✓

The manufacture of helicopters, motorcycles and satellites ✓

10. Which of the following is held annually in Townsville?

The Festival of Horsepower ✓

Race Week Festival of Sailing ✓

The Northern Craft Beer Festival ✓

The Australian Festival of Chamber Music ✓

11. The suburb of Belgian Gardens used to have a different name. Why was it changed?

The original name, German Gardens, went out of favour during WWI ✓

To honour King Leopold II, who paid a brief visit to the region in 1870 ✓

To improve the reputation of the area previously known as Crocodile Bay ✓

When the area known as Sandy Point was gazetted in 1910, it was named after the first people to settle there, several Belgian farming families ✓

12. What was the Townsville mutiny?

A series of protests by unemployed returned soldiers in 1919 ✓

A riot because beer supplies ran out when floods isolated the city in 1892 ✓

A rebellion of hundreds of African American troops stationed there during WWII ✓

A 1938 dockworkers' strike protesting the export of pig iron from Australia to Japan ✓

13. Which is closest to Townsville?

Brisbane ✓

The equator ✓

Honiara, Solomon Islands ✓

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea ✓

14. The library at the Townsville campus of James Cook University is named after which former university employee?

Linguist Robert Dixon ✓

Gardener Eddie Mabo ✓

Chemist Leonard Lindoy ✓

Zoologist Rhondda Jones ✓

15. Australia's first medical research institute was established in Townsville in 1913 under the name:

Caritas Health and Hospice Care ✓

Herbert Institute for Medical Research ✓

Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine ✓

Royal Queensland Institute of Disease Control ✓

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