Australian History
These ships carried the first convicts from Britain to Australia in 1788.
What is the First Fleet?
A triangle with three equal sides is called this.
What is an equilateral triangle?
This is the name of the protagonist of Someone Like Me.
Who is Tas?
Australians often eat this cold dessert topped with fruit on Christmas Day.
What is pavlova?
This famous building in Sydney sits on the site of Pemulwuy's hut.
What is the Sydney Opera House?
The Traditional Owners of Australia have been here approximately this long.
What is 60,000 years.
This type of angle is greater than 90° but less than 180°.
What is an obtuse angle?
Ellen wakes up on her birthday to find this mysterious object on her pillow.
What is a silver crown?
These colourful paper tubes pull apart with a bang and contain jokes and crowns.
What are Christmas crackers?
This tall tower in France was originally criticised but is now one of the world’s most visited attractions.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
This event in 1851 caused thousands of people to travel to Victoria and New South Wales hoping to become rich.
What is the Gold Rush?
This is the term for the answer to a multiplication problem.
What is the product?
In The Book of Chance, Nadia spends her days helping this group of people.
Who are refugees?
This is the original name for Santa.
Who is Saint Nicholas?
You’ll find these huge stone structures in Egypt, built as tombs for ancient pharaohs.
What are the pyramids?
This document, signed in 1901, officially united the colonies into one country.
What is Federation?
This is the number you get when you divide the total by the number of items — often used for averages.
What is the mean?
This Australian author wrote The 52-Storey Treehouse and many other funny books.
Who is Andy Griffiths?
This plant, often hung in doorways, is associated with ancient Norse myths and was believed to bring peace — anyone standing beneath it should be offered a kiss.
What is mistletoe?
This ancient Roman arena could hold more than 50,000 spectators and hosted gladiator battles and public events.
What is the Colosseum?
This 1967 national vote changed the Constitution so Aboriginal people were counted in the census.
What is the 1967 Referendum?
What does BIDMAS stand for?
What is Brackets Indices Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction?
This author created the fantasy world of Narnia.
Who is C.S. Lewis?
In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, this ghost arrives first to warn Scrooge of the night ahead.
Who is Jacob Marley?
This prehistoric monument in England is made of massive standing stones arranged in a circle.
What is Stonehenge?