1. After a two year break due to Covid, Vivid, a

festival of light, music and ideas, returned to

which Australian capital city?

• a) Melbourne

• b) Sydney

• c) Adelaide

• d) Hobart

2. Vivid is best described as what type of event?

• a) Cultural event

• b) Natural event

• c) Economic event

• d) Geographic event

3. A number of people were injured in a boating

accident in the Horizontal Falls in which region of

Western Australia?

• a) Great Southern

• b) Pilbara

• c) Eastern Goldfields

• d) Kimberley

4. The Horizontal Falls are created by the flow of

large tides passing through two short, steep

gorges. The world’s largest tides occur in which

bay of eastern Canada?

• a) Bay of Sundy

• b) Bay of Mundy

• c) Bay of Fundy

• d) Bay of Bundy

5. Lincoln Crowley QC has become the first

Indigenous Australian to be a judge in which

court, the highest of state courts, after he was

appointed to the role in Queensland?

• a) District Court

• b) Magistrate Court

• c) High Court

• d) Supreme Court

6. Jai Handley, from which state, became the first

Australian to win the classic Giro d’Italia cycle

race?

• a) New South Wales

• b) Victoria

• c) Western Australia

• d) Tasmania

7. The Giro d’Italia is one of three European road

cycling events, called Grand Tours, that are run in

daily stages over three weeks. What are the

other two Grand Tours?

• a) Tour de France and Vuelta a España

• b) Tour de France and Tour of Britain

• c) Tour of Britain and Vuelta España

• d) Tour of Britain and Abu Dhabi Tour

8. A previously unknown population of koalas

has been found in which Australian national park?

• a) Kakadu National Park

• b) Royal National Park

• c) Purnululu National Park

• d) Kosciuszko National Park

9. Koalas are what type of mammals?

• a) Carnivores

• b) Placentals

• c) Monotremes

• d) Marsupials

10. At least 239 barriers, including dams and weirs,

were removed across 17 countries in Europe in

2021, in a record-breaking year for dam removals

across the continent. Why are many dams and

weirs being removed?

• a) They are now obsolete

• b) To improve the ecosystems of rivers

• c) To return natural sediment flow

• d) All of the above