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Australian cities multiple choice: Townsville
How much do you know about the magnetic city of Townsville?
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Last updated: September 23, 2022
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| First submitted | September 23, 2022 |
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1.
Queensland is big, eh? Nearly seven times bigger than Texas. Townsville is in:
North Queensland
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Central Queensland
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Far North Queensland
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Southeast Queensland
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2.
How did Townsville get its name?
After a town in Wales
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Three neighbouring towns were gazetted together to form a new city
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After American architect Ithiel Town, who designed the central streetscape
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After Robert Towns, who financed the first white settlement but never lived there himself
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3.
Townsville is home to Australia's largest...
clock
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army base
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botanic garden
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desalination plant
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4.
Which disease was first identified from samples taken in Townsville?
Hendra virus
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Dengue Fever
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Ross River Fever
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Australian Bat Lyssavirus
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5.
How far short of being a mountain is Castle Hill?
5.8 metres
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18.9 metres
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27.1 metres
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0.12 metres
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6.
Townsville cannot be said to border which body of water?
Coral Sea
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Torres Strait
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Cleveland Bay
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South Pacific Ocean
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7.
How did Magnetic Island get its name
It is shaped like a horseshoe magnet
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Its freshwater streams contain a species of electric eel
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There are significant iron concentrations in the island's soil
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James Cook's compass mysteriously went haywire as he sailed past in 1770
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8.
What was established in Townsville in 1896?
James Cook University
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Australia's first Ferris wheel
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The first Japanese consulate in Australia
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The first Woolworths family grocery store
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9.
Townsville is the only place in the world that is a base for what three activities?
Copper, zinc and nickel refining
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Scuba diving, bungee jumping and rock climbing
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The licensed sale of gold, cattle, and tropical fish
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The manufacture of helicopters, motorcycles and satellites
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10.
Which of the following is held annually in Townsville?
The Festival of Horsepower
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Race Week Festival of Sailing
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The Northern Craft Beer Festival
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The Australian Festival of Chamber Music
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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
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To honour King Leopold II, who paid a brief visit to the region in 1870
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To improve the reputation of the area previously known as Crocodile Bay
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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
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12.
What was the Townsville mutiny?
A series of protests by unemployed returned soldiers in 1919
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A riot because beer supplies ran out when floods isolated the city in 1892
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A rebellion of hundreds of African American troops stationed there during WWII
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A 1938 dockworkers' strike protesting the export of pig iron from Australia to Japan
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13.
Which is closest to Townsville?
Brisbane
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The equator
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Honiara, Solomon Islands
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Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
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14.
The library at the Townsville campus of James Cook University is named after which former university employee?
Linguist Robert Dixon
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Gardener Eddie Mabo
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Chemist Leonard Lindoy
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Zoologist Rhondda Jones
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Australia's first medical research institute was established in Townsville in 1913 under the name:
Caritas Health and Hospice Care
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Herbert Institute for Medical Research
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Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine
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Royal Queensland Institute of Disease Control
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comjag
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Level 88
Sep 24, 2022
Bloody hell, these questions are definitely on point! Fun quiz.
Zupity
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Level 65
Sep 24, 2022
Thank you, that's kind. Today is the day of Geelong. Release the quiz.
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