Q 01/05

The name 'Australia Day' was first used on 30 July 1915 for a day raising funds for whom?

A) Drought-stricken farmers

B) Bushfire-hit towns

C) Wounded soldiers

D) War widows and orphans

Answer · why

C) Wounded soldiers

Wounded soldiers were the cause: Ellen Wharton Kirke, a mother of four servicemen, proposed the fundraising day, and the patriotic name only migrated ...

Q 02/05

In 1818 Governor Macquarie gave government workers a holiday and an extra ration of what?

A) Fresh meat

B) Navy rum

C) Tobacco

D) Wheat flour

Answer · why

A) Fresh meat

Fresh meat, one pound per worker, came with a 30-gun salute at Dawes Point, one gun for each year of the colony, beginning a tradition later governors...

Q 03/05

What sheltered the Aboriginal Tent Embassy when it was first set up outside Parliament House in 1972?

A) A canvas army tent

B) A bark hut

C) A caravan

D) A beach umbrella

Answer · why

D) A beach umbrella

A beach umbrella was the original shelter, planted against the McMahon government's land-rights stance; the embassy is now the world's longest continu...

Q 04/05

In which year did Triple J first count down the Hottest 100 on 27 January rather than Australia Day?

A) 2018

B) 2019

C) 2021

D) 2024

Answer · why

A) 2018

2018 was the first countdown off the date: after 64,990 listeners were surveyed and 60% backed a move, the 2017 poll was announced on the fourth Satur...

Q 05/05

Which singer was hastily naturalised just before accepting the 1987 Australian of the Year award?

A) Jimmy Barnes

B) Peter Allen

C) John Farnham

D) Olivia Newton-John

Answer · why

C) John Farnham

John Farnham, born in England, was named 1987 Australian of the Year in the Bicentennial year before he had been naturalised, so a swearing-in was org...