Brisbane
English
Geography
General Knowledge
Academic Writing
100

The main shopping street in Brisbane CBD.

What is the Queen Street Mall?

100

An action word.

What is a verb?

100

The capital city of Australia.

What is Canberra?

100

The man who painted the Mona Lisa.

Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?

100

The sentence that informs the reader of the focus of a paragraph.

What is a topic sentence?

200

The name of the water transport that runs up and down the Brisbane river.

What is The CityCat?

200

A word ending in -ing that can replace a noun.

What is a gerund?

200

The largest country in the world, by land mass.

What is Russia?

200

The author of the Harry Potter series.

Who is J.K. Rowling?

200

An essay that talks about the reason why something happens and what the result of this is.

What is a cause and effect essay?

300

The bridge connecting Brisbane CBD to Kangaroo Point.

What is the Story Bridge?

300

A sentence which contains two independent clauses.

What is a compound sentence?

300

The most populated city in Asia.

What is Tokyo?

300

The planet closest to the sun.

What is Mercury?

300

Using language to make ideas less certain.

What is hedging?

400

The area code for Brisbane phone numbers.

What is 07?

400

A dependent clause that gives non-essential information about a subject or object.

What is a non-defining relative clause?

400

The official language of Brazil.

What is Portuguese? 

400

A first aid technique used if someone's heart has stopped. 

What is CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)?

400
Incorporating ideas from other sources into your writing.

What is synthesis?

500

The name of the Brisbane A-League side.

What are The Brisbane Roar?

500

The process of turning verbs into nouns.

What is nominalisation?

500

The capital city of Canada.

What is Ottawa? 

500

The company with the slogan "Moving the world together".

What is Hyundai? 

500

Making a point that goes against the main argument in your essay.

What is refutation or counterargument?