Characters
Setting and history
Plot
Vocabulary
Down Under Facts
200

This English aristocrat travels to northern Australia to sell a cattle station.

Lady Sarah Ashley

200

What is the name of Lady Ashley's cattle station?

Faraway Downs

200

What does Lady Ashley and Drover driver a herd of across the country?

Cattle (Cows)

200

What is the word for the remote, dry inland parts of Australia?

The outback

200

Which animal appears on Australia's coat of arms, along with the emu?

Kangaroo

400

Hugh Jackman plays this rugged cattleman, who is known only by his job title.

Drover

400

Which northern port city is attacked in the film's final part?

Darwin

400
At first, what is Lady Ashley's plans for Faraway Downs?

To sell it

400

What is the job of someone who moves cattle over long distances?

Drover

400
True or false?

Australia is both a country and a continent

True

600

Which character narrates the story?

Nullah

600

When in world history does this movie take place?

World War II

600
To whom does Lady Ashley sell the herd to?

The army

600

What is the traditional Aboriginal ritual, that Nullah wants to go on, called?

Walkabout

600
Which city is Australia's capital?

(It is not Sydney)

Canberra

800

Which cruel station manager works for the cattle baron King Carney and tries to take over Faraway Downs?

Neil Fletcher

800

Which country bombed the city in the movie?

Japan

800

Where is Nullah taken away to? The place is run by missionaries.

Mission Island

800

Which word means treating people unfairly because of their race?

Discrimination (Racism)
800

What is the name of the huge red sandstone rock in the middle of Australia, sacred to the Aboriginal people?

Uluru

1000

Who is Nullah's father?

Neil Fletcher

1000

What is the name for the Aboriginal children who were taken from their families by the government?

The Stolen Generations

1000

What is the name of the song, from "The Wizard of Oz", that Nullah often sings?

(Somewhere) Over the rainbow
1000

What is the movie term for the characters Lady Ashley and Drover?

Protagonist

1000

Which term does Aboriginal people use for stories and beliefs about how the world works?

Dreaming

1200

Who is the person that dies during the stampede?

Kipling Flynn

1200

Which territory in Australia is Darwin in?

Northern Territory

1200

What happens to Faraway Downs at the end of the movie?

Lady Ashley keeps it operating.

1200

What is it called when a herd of animals suddenly runs away in a panic?

Stampede

1200

Off the coast of Queensland lies the worlds largest coral reef, what is it's name?

The Great Barrier Reef.

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