Australian cities multiple choice: Townsville

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

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

James Cook University

Australia's first Ferris wheel

The first Japanese consulate in Australia

The first Woolworths family grocery store

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

The Festival of Horsepower

Race Week Festival of Sailing

The Northern Craft Beer Festival

The Australian Festival of Chamber Music

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

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

Caritas Health and Hospice Care

Herbert Institute for Medical Research

Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine

Royal Queensland Institute of Disease Control