Q 01/05

Norwegian miners at Kiandra, on the Great Dividing Range, brought which sport to Australia in 1861?

A) Ice hockey

B) Curling

C) Skiing

D) Tobogganing

Answer · why

C) Skiing

Skiing took off at Kiandra after the miners carved more than forty pairs of skis, and the town's Snow Shoe Club is reportedly the longest continuously...

Q 02/05

The Blue Mountains are thought to owe their blue haze to oily vapour from which abundant trees?

A) Eucalypts

B) Wattles

C) Tea trees

D) Paperbarks

Answer · why

A) Eucalypts

Eucalypts cover the sandstone plateau so thickly that the oily vapour they release is thought to scatter blue light across the valleys.

Q 03/05

Which sandstone rock formation in the Blue Mountains towers above the Jamison Valley?

A) The Twelve Apostles

B) The Pinnacles

C) The Devils Marbles

D) The Three Sisters

Answer · why

D) The Three Sisters

The Three Sisters are said to have been turned to stone, though the tale as commonly told may trace back to a 16-year-old schoolgirl rather than to Ab...

Q 04/05

Which Snowy Mountains peak is the highest point on the Great Dividing Range and mainland Australia?

A) Mount Townsend

B) Mount Kosciuszko

C) Mount Feathertop

D) Mount Buller

Answer · why

B) Mount Kosciuszko

Mount Kosciuszko stands just 2,228 metres high, and like nearly every peak on the range it can be climbed without mountaineering equipment.

Q 05/05

The Great Dividing Range lies in one country; which chain, the world's longest on land, spans seven?

A) The Andes

B) The Rockies

C) The Himalayas

D) The Urals

Answer · why

A) The Andes

The Andes pass through seven South American countries, while the Great Dividing Range is the longest mountain chain lying inside a single country.