Thread: The Australian Quiz - Not for Australians

No slight meant to the good shaving people of the other 140- or so countries but I spent a lot of time in Australia and, excepting certain whingers, I never met a stranger. Australians can be genteel but, in a mostly kind way, they can also be rough on anyone (including each other). Informal yet traditional they have a nickname for everything and everybody. There seem to be an inordinate number of straight razor adherents in Australia so a lot of them show up here. They remind me that, as well as they know the history and culture of the United States, we in the US are poorly acquainted with The Land Down Under. I may be wrong so to find out, here is a quiz for non-Aussies only - simple things that most every Australian knows. I call this quiz:

THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER & AUSTRALIAN CULTURE EXAM (answers a few posts down)

1. When did "Waltzing Matilda" become the national anthem of Australia?
2. What is Matilda and what causes Matilda to waltz?
3. If you look up into a clear night sky from Adelaide in mid-winter, what is one thing are you sure to recognize?
4. What is BHP and what does BHP stand for?
5. Who or what got away from Old Regret?
6. About which person, place or thing is there nothing more lonesome, morbid or drear'?
7. What was the wild colonial boy's name and where was he from?
8. What is the Mundaring Weir and how did it change Australia?
9. Engineering genius C.Y. O'Conner took his life; did it involve a weir or an aboriginal curse?
10. Name the states and territories of Australia and their capital cities.

Bonus Questions -

a. Who was David Kirkpatrick and what was his professional name?
b. What is the map of Tasmania?
c. When The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, from which place had the man returned?
d. What is a kookaburra and how many legs does one have?
e. What is an echidna and would you put one in your pocket?
f. Where is the redback hiding?
g. Which is more toxic - a cane toad or a tiger snake?
h. Why did the tasmanian devil become extinct?
i. Are more Australians injured (not necessarily killed) annually by bites from sharks or tasmanian tigers?

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