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Australian cities multiple choice: Wagga Wagga
Are you familiar with the inland city of Wagga Wagga?
Don't call Wagga Wagga Wagga
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Last updated: September 25, 2022
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1.
What is the 'Wagga Effect'?
A mirage in which light rays above a wide river appear to be liquid
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Dangerous levels of tiredness that affect drivers on long distance journeys
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The disproportionally high number of elite athletes who come from regional cities
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A cognitive bias in which people from rural and regional towns are perceived to be more trustworthy than city dwellers
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2.
Wagga Wagga is almost exactly halfway between which two cities?
Adelaide and Sydney
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Adelaide and Brisbane
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Melbourne and Sydney
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Melbourne and Brisbane
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3.
What was stolen from the local museum?
A bullwhip
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An Australian Rules football
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The City of Wagga Wagga mayoral chain
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A bullet fired by bushranger Mad Dog Morgan
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4.
Wagga Wagga is in which region of NSW?
Murray
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Riverina
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Central West
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Richmond Tweed
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5.
Which person from Wagga Wagga is pictured on the Australian $10 note?
Poet Mary Gilmore
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Architect William Monks
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Politician Charles Hardy
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Field Marshall Sir Thomas Blamey
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6.
In the 1860s, how did Arthur Orton, a bankrupt butcher from Wagga Wagga, cause an international sensation?
He discovered gold
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He invented brakes for bicycles
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He shot the Brazilian ambassador
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He claimed to be missing nobleman Roger Tichborne
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7.
The Wagga Wagga Art Gallery houses which national collection?
National Portrait Gallery
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National Art Glass Collection
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National Photographic Archive
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National Wood Carving Collection
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8.
The largest Aboriginal group in New South Wales, which people are indigenous to the region that includes Wagga Wagga?
Yuin
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Dharug
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Wiradjuri
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Yorta Yorta
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9.
How did Wagga Wagga find its way into a Harry Potter book?
Susan Bones's mother was a witch from Wagga Wagga
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It was noted by Newt Scamander as the natural habitat of billywigs
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Gilderoy Lockhart claimed to have defeated the Wagga Wagga Werewolf
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After obliviating their memories, Hermione Granger sent her parents to live in Wagga Wagga
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10.
Wagga Wagga beach is on the bank of which river?
Rufus
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Murray
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Darling
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Murrumbidgee
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11.
Arriving in 1829, who was the first explorer to arrive in the area now known as Wagga Wagga?
Charles Sturt
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Hamilton Hume
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Thomas Mitchell
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Ludwig Leichhardt
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12.
What iconic food made its debut at the Wagga Wagga Agricultural Show?
Dim sims
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Vegemite
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Chiko Rolls
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Lamingtons
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13.
Which industry is the largest employer in Wagga Wagga?
Manufacturing
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Education and training
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Health care and social assistance
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Accommodation and food services
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14.
Wagga Wagga blacksmith August Augustus Menneke was famous for making what?
axes
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bells
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lamps
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sculptures of cows
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15.
At the ticket window in the botanic gardens you can buy a ticket for...
Moonlight cinema
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The miniature railway
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A ferry trip across the river
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Cricket (summer) and football (winter) matches
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