Rights and Freedoms
What is the name for the group of Indigenous children taken away from their families in Australia in the 1900s.
The Stolen Generation
Define the term - Migrant
a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work or better living conditions.
Which is considered the highest possible level of disease?
Pandemic
There are only two mammals that lay eggs. Name at one of them
Spiny anteater and the duck-billed platypus
What does “www” stand for in a website browser?
World Wide Web
What does UDHR stand for?
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
From which country did Australia see mass migration from during the 1970s and 1980s?
Vietnam
In February 1919, restrictions were placed on the movement of people across which state borders?
NSW and Victoria
What's the smallest country in the world?
Vatican City
What is the national animal of Scotland?
Unicorn
What year did Kevin Rudd give his "Sorry" speech?
2008
What is the 'White Australia Policy'?
A legislation specifically designed to limit all non-European immigration into Australia.
What was discovered to be the main vector of bubonic plague?
Fleas
Which countries fought in the Hundred Years’ War?
Britain and France
How many languages are written from right to left?
12
Charles Perkins
What is the current population of Australia?
- to the closest million
26 million
How did the pneumonic influenza pandemic get the name, the Spanish Flu?
The Spanish were the first to report it widely in the media / their king died of it and there was no censorship
The Ptolemy dynasty ruled which ancient civilisation?
Egypt
What is the world's most expensive spice by weight?
Saffron
Fill in both BLANKs: The landmark event at which Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech” was officially titled “The March on Washington for BLANK and BLANK.”
The landmark event at which Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech” was officially titled “The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.”
Other than migrants/convicts from the United Kingdom which national background was one of the first to migrate to Australia?
Chinese - during the gold rush from the 1850s
Approximately how many Australians died from the Spanish Flu?
12,000
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in 1903)? What category did she win?
Marie Curie, Physics
(she won two nobel prizes - one in physics and one in chemistry and was first person to win in two different categories)
How often does the International Space Station orbit the Earth every day?
Its less than 20
16 times a day