The Aussie Traveller
Australia has recently hit a population total of 25 million people.  This is quite small when The greater Tokyo metropolitan area, which is spread over 3 prefectures, has a population that is estimated to be over 36 million.

How well do you know our 'small' big country             

Q 1)  You have gone for a morning run on 4 Mile Beach and have a table booked for lunch in Macrossan Street.  Where are you?
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Port Douglas in Queensland.
Q 2) You have gone for a walking tour of Battery Point. It is Saturday and now you are visiting the big week-end market.  Where are you?
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Hobart Tasmania.
The market is the Salamanca Market. Battery Point Battery Point was settled in the earliest days of Hobart Town in the early 1800’s, and has retained the winding streets, colonial architecture and historical ambiance that make it one of the most fascinating historic precincts in all of Australia.  
Q 3:-  What are the Bungle Bungles?
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Mountain Range.
   Rising 300 metres above the grass-covered plains that surround them, the orange and black sandstone domes known as the Bungle Bungle are one of the world’s most fascinating geological landmarks.  .
​   The world heritage listed Bungle Bungle Range is located within Purnululu National Park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Q 4:-  ​I have just spent the morning at Cottesloe Beach, swimming, snorkelling and surfing. In what large city an I likely to be enjoying dinner?
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Perth W.A.  
Cottesloe Beach, SW of the Perth CBD is a popular spots for swimming, snorkelling and surfing.
Q 5:-  Your hotel has a great view of the Yarra River.  What city are you visiting
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Melbourne
Q 6:-   Sir Donald Bradman is perhaps the greatest cricketer that ever played the game.  He has a museum in what town?
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Bowral
The International Cricket Hall of Fame is a permanent cultural exhibition dedicated to the game of cricket. It is located in the Australian town of Bowral, New South Wales. 
Q 7:-  I am visiting a town is noted for opal  mining and also for people living underground to escape the extreme heat.  What Town am I visiting?
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Coober Peddy.
   Opal was first found in Coober Pedy on 1 February 1915. Since then, Coober Pedy has been supplying the world with the majority of gem quality opal.
   Coober Pedy today relies as much on tourism as the opal mining industry to provide the community with employment and sustainability.
Q 8:- Where or what is the Ghan?
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Passenger train
The Ghan is an Australian passenger train service between Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin on the Adelaide–Darwin railway. 
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Q9:-Over 250 Indigenous Australian language groups covered the continent at the time of European settlement in 1788. Today only around ???  of those languages are still spoken and many are at risk of being lost as Elders pass away. How many are still spoken?  a):- Less than 20:.  b) :- Between 50 and 75;   c) :- 75 to 100:   d):-  Over 100:
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d):- over 100
Estimate at 120 different languages
Q 10:- A day trip to Simpsons Gap and a tour of the Royal Flying Doctor are some of the highlights of this town.  What town?
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Alice Springs
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Q 11:- My tour brochure says that this evening I have a sunset camel ride along Cable Beach.  Where am I
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Broome,  Western Australia
Cable Beach is a 22 km stretch of white sand beach on the eastern Indian Ocean and the name of the surrounding suburb in Broome, Western Australia. Cable Beach was named after the telegraph cable laid between Broome and Java in 1889.
Q 12:-  They say that the hardest working group of people are the tourists.  Not Us.  We are taking the day off for coffee and shopping at Australia's largest shopping centre.  Where are We?
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Malvern Victoria
The 2,000,000 square feet large Chadstone Shopping Centre in Malvern East, Victoria, is the largest shopping centre in Australia.
Q 13:-  We are back at the beach.  A special beach that has been home to a surfing competition since 1962.  Known as the Rip Curl Pro and before that, the Easter Classic.  Where are we? 

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Bells Beach
   Bells Beach is a coastal locality of Victoria, Australia in Surf Coast Shire and a renowned surf beach, located 100 km south-west of Melbourne, on the Great Ocean Road near the town of Torquay.
   It is named after John Cavert Bell of the family that first took up a pastoral run there in the 1840s. .
Q 14:-  I am a town in South Australia, recognised as the oldest German settlement established in 1839.  Want some Apple Strudel?  What is my name?
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Hahndorf
   On the 28th of December 1838 the 344 tonne ship Zebra carrying 187 German Lutheran immigrants (38 families) arrived in Port Adelaide.
   The ship's passengers were unfortunately unable to disembark the ship until the 2nd of January 1839 due to low tide.     The ships captain Dirk Hahn, a Dane, had grown to respect the passengers and promised to help them achieve their goal of settling and farming together. He was able to negotiate a parcel of land in the Adelaide Hills.
 
Q 15:-  ​Australians like the beach.  They even have rocks in the shape of breaking waves.  What state would you have to travel to, to visit wave rock?
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West Australia
Wave Rock is a natural rock formation that is shaped like a tall breaking ocean wave. The "wave" is about 15 m high and around 110 m long. It forms the north side of a solitary hill, which is known as "Hyden Rock"
Q 16:-  This town’s name is derived from the Aboriginal word “Wangai”, meaning "place of the silky pears".  It is Western Australia and was founded during the 1893 gold rush.  What is it's name?
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Kalgoorlie
   Now known as Kalgoorlie-Boulder, The city was founded in 1989 by the amalgamation of the towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder
   Marsdenia australis, commonly known as the bush banana, silky pear or green vine is an Australian native plant. It is found in Central Australia and throughout Western Australia. It is a bush tucker food used by Indigenous Australians.
Q 17:-  Every year this town hold a Country Music Festival, billed as the largest music festival in Australia.  Where would you have to travel to enjoy this event?
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Tamworth NSW.
18 )   During World War Two (WWII), This city became the first mainland site in Australia to come under direct attack from the enemy when it was the target of more than 64 Japanese air raids, causing huge devastation and many civilian casualties. What city is it?
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Darwin NT
19)  What is the most northerly point of mainland Australia?
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Cape York Peninsula
20)  What are Meehni, Wimlah and Gunnedoo?
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Rock formations known as the Three Sisters.
The Aboriginal dream-time legend has it that three sisters, lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe. These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law forbade them to marry.
21)   What is the main ingredient in the filling of a Chiko Roll?  a)- Chicken;  b)- Cabbage;  c)- Potato
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Cabbage
The Chiko Roll is an Australian savoury snack invented by Frank McEncroe, inspired by the Chinese spring roll and first sold in 1951 as the "Chicken Roll" despite not actually containing chicken.
22)  What town will you reach if you take the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway from Smithfield near Cairns?
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Kuranda
23)  If someone asks you where the dunny is, what are they looking for?
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The dunny is a toilet
Originally a term used for the outhouse toilet
24)  What do you call the Aussie favourite sponge cake cubes dipped in chocolate and rolled in coconut?
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Lamingtons
This Australian culinary icon, is believed to have been created through an accident at work by a maid-servant to Lord  Lamington, the thoroughly-British eighth Governor of Queensland.
25)  What should you do with a damper?

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Eat it.  It is bread.
Damper is a traditional Australian soda bread, historically prepared by swagmen, drovers, stockmen and other travellers. It consists of a wheat flour based bread, traditionally baked in the coals of a campfire or in a camp oven.

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