Australia

What's the name of this place?

• Great Dividing Range

• Great Barrier Reef

• Tasmania Island

• Daintree Rainforest  

The most typical sport is the Australian...

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Sacred natural rock which rises in the flat red-soil desert called the Red Centre

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Can you name 3 of the most well-known Australian animals?

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Platypus, Kangaroo, Emu, Koala, Dingo, Wombat, Quokka

Which is not a typical Australian food?

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Can you name any Aussie?

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The Indigenous Australian Instrument "Didgeridoo"

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What Australian traditions do you know?

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Aboriginal Rock Art, Australia Day & Triple J Hottest 100, Eating Seafood at Christmas, Vegemite Eating Competition, Thong-Throwing, Two-up

Australia has...

• the world’s largest dinosaur footprints

• the world's longest fence

• the world’s longest straight road

• All of the above

Answer explanation

• ·         The world’s largest dinosaur footprints have been found in Western Australia. Measuring about 1.75 metres long, the prints are believed to have belonged to a ‘sauropod,’ a long-necked herbivore. The area where the prints were found has now been dubbed ‘Australia’s Jurassic Park!’

 

·         The Dingo Fence in Australia stretches over 5600 km to keep dingoes out of fertile farmland.

 

·         Eyres Highway is the world’s longest straight road, which connects South Australia to Western Australia. It has the longest straight stretch of road, covering 146.6 km without a bend.

What word was invented in Australia? Selfie or Spoiler

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The word “selfie" was only added to Oxford Dictionaries in 2013. Supposedly the first recorded use of the word was in 2002 on an internet forum by a group of Australians.