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

Which governor marked the colony's thirtieth year in 1818 with a public holiday and a thirty-gun salute?

A) Lachlan Macquarie

B) Arthur Phillip

C) William Bligh

D) Thomas Brisbane

Answer · why

A) Lachlan Macquarie

Lachlan Macquarie ordered the first official celebration of 26 January, with thirty guns at Dawes Point counting out the colony's years, a salute his ...

Q 03/05

Which protest began on 26 January 1972 as four men under a beach umbrella outside Parliament House?

A) Aboriginal Tent Embassy

B) Wave Hill walk-off

C) Yirrkala bark petitions

D) Freedom Ride

Answer · why

A) Aboriginal Tent Embassy

The Aboriginal Tent Embassy began when four young activists planted a beach umbrella on the Parliament House lawn to protest the McMahon government's ...

Q 04/05

Which radio station moved its annual music countdown off Australia Day from 2018 after polling its listeners?

A) Triple J

B) Triple M

C) Nova

D) Fox FM

Answer · why

A) Triple J

Triple J moved the Hottest 100 after 60 per cent of listeners in its 2017 survey backed a change, shifting the countdown to the fourth weekend of Janu...

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 had lived in Australia since boyhood, yet it emerged just before the presentation that the English-born singer had never been naturalised...