ANIMALS
Name two animals, you can find in Australia only, starting with the letter K.
KANGAROO
KOALA
KOOKABURRA
Which city is the capital of Australia?
CANBERRA
Who discovered Australia in 1770?
JAMES COOK : He was a British explorer, a navigator, a cartographer, and the captain in the Royal Navy.
What is the size of Australia?
It is 7,686,850 square km (km2)
according to : http://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/dimensions/australias-size-compared
What are Australia's native people called?
They are called the Australian Aborigines.
Today they are usually referred to as Aboriginal Australians and Indigenous Australians.
Which animal didn't live in Australia until the Europeans arrived?
the RABBIT
Why is Alice Spring a special city in terms of geography?
ALICE SPRINGS is situated in the middle of the Australian desert.
Why did a lot of British and Irish people go to Australia in the 18th Century?
Between 1788 and 1868, about 162,000 convicts (= prisonners) were transported by the British government to various penal colonies in Australia.
The last convict ship arrived in Western Australia on 10 January 1868.
How many inhabitants are there in Australia?
There are 24,896,879 people living in Australia.
according to: http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/australia-population/
How old is the Aboriginal culture?
It is the oldest unadulterated culture in the world. Its is 50,000 or more years old.
Unadulterated=pur, parfait
Where is TAZ from?
What is his real name?
The island state of TASMANIA.
It is the Tasmanian Devil
Which city is the second most populated city in Australia?
MELBOURNE in the state of Victoria
A very sought-after metal was found in the states of New South wales and Victoria in 1851.
Which metal was it?
sought-after = recherché
It was GOLD!
The name Australia comes from the latin word "Australis". what does "Australis" mean in English?
"Australis" means Sourthen
What musical instrument do native people play traditionally?
They play the didgeridoo.
Which animals are the emblems of Australia?
KANGAROO and EMU
This city is one of the oldest city in Australia. You can visit there Australia’s largest modern art gallery : the GOMA (Gallery of modern Art)
Which city is it?
BRISBANE in the state of Queensland
When did Australia become a nation?
Australia’s six states became a nation under a single constitution on 1 January 1901.
Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia.
What is the name of the Australian desert?
it is called the Outback or the Bush.
How is the Aboriginal painting style called?
it's called the Dot painting style.
For the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, 3 typical Australian animals were chosen to become the official mascots. They represented air, soil and water.
Their names were Olly, Syd and Milly.
Olly for Olympics and Syd for Sydney and Milly for Millenium.
Which animals did they represent?
Olly = KOOKABURRA
Syd = PLATYPUS
Milly = ECHIDNA
What is the name of Kate's hometown?
It's Albury, of course!
When did Australia become fully independent from the United Kingdom?
In 1986 on March 3rd
What is the name of the most famous monolith all over the world?
It's called Uluru or Ayers Rock.
Who is Cathy Freeman?
Cathy Freeman won the gold medal in the 400 m race during the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. She is an Olympic champion!