Australian cities multiple choice: Wagga Wagga

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1. What is the 'Wagga Effect'?

A mirage in which light rays above a wide river appear to be liquid ✓

Dangerous levels of tiredness that affect drivers on long distance journeys ✓

The disproportionally high number of elite athletes who come from regional cities ✓

A cognitive bias in which people from rural and regional towns are perceived to be more trustworthy than city dwellers ✓

2. Wagga Wagga is almost exactly halfway between which two cities?

Adelaide and Sydney ✓

Adelaide and Brisbane ✓

Melbourne and Sydney ✓

Melbourne and Brisbane ✓

3. What was stolen from the local museum?

A bullwhip ✓

An Australian Rules football ✓

The City of Wagga Wagga mayoral chain ✓

A bullet fired by bushranger Mad Dog Morgan ✓

4. Wagga Wagga is in which region of NSW?

Murray ✓

Riverina ✓

Central West ✓

Richmond Tweed ✓

5. Which person from Wagga Wagga is pictured on the Australian $10 note?

Poet Mary Gilmore ✓

Architect William Monks ✓

Politician Charles Hardy ✓

Field Marshall Sir Thomas Blamey ✓

6. In the 1860s, how did Arthur Orton, a bankrupt butcher from Wagga Wagga, cause an international sensation?

He discovered gold ✓

He invented brakes for bicycles ✓

He shot the Brazilian ambassador ✓

He claimed to be missing nobleman Roger Tichborne ✓

7. The Wagga Wagga Art Gallery houses which national collection?

National Portrait Gallery ✓

National Art Glass Collection ✓

National Photographic Archive ✓

National Wood Carving Collection ✓

8. The largest Aboriginal group in New South Wales, which people are indigenous to the region that includes Wagga Wagga?

Yuin ✓

Dharug ✓

Wiradjuri ✓

Yorta Yorta ✓

9. How did Wagga Wagga find its way into a Harry Potter book?

Susan Bones's mother was a witch from Wagga Wagga ✓

It was noted by Newt Scamander as the natural habitat of billywigs ✓

Gilderoy Lockhart claimed to have defeated the Wagga Wagga Werewolf ✓

After obliviating their memories, Hermione Granger sent her parents to live in Wagga Wagga ✓

10. Wagga Wagga beach is on the bank of which river?

Rufus ✓

Murray ✓

Darling ✓

Murrumbidgee ✓

11. Arriving in 1829, who was the first explorer to arrive in the area now known as Wagga Wagga?

Charles Sturt ✓

Hamilton Hume ✓

Thomas Mitchell ✓

Ludwig Leichhardt ✓

12. What iconic food made its debut at the Wagga Wagga Agricultural Show?

Dim sims ✓

Vegemite ✓

Chiko Rolls ✓

Lamingtons ✓

13. Which industry is the largest employer in Wagga Wagga?

Manufacturing ✓

Education and training ✓

Health care and social assistance ✓

Accommodation and food services ✓

14. Wagga Wagga blacksmith August Augustus Menneke was famous for making what?

axes ✓

bells ✓

lamps ✓

sculptures of cows ✓

15. At the ticket window in the botanic gardens you can buy a ticket for...

Moonlight cinema ✓

The miniature railway ✓

A ferry trip across the river ✓

Cricket (summer) and football (winter) matches ✓

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