Australian Sport
This city will host the 2032 Summer Olympic Games.
What is Brisbane?
This city was chosen as Australia's capital as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne.
What is Canberra?
This is the name for a baby kangaroo.
What is a joey?
This Australian rock band released the 1980 album Back in Black.
Who is AC/DC?
A movie poster is measured with a ruler marked in millimetres. State the absolute error of the measurement.
0.5 mm (half the smallest unit on the scale)
A cricket pitch is measured as 20.12 m long, correct to the nearest centimetre. State the lower and upper limits of accuracy.
20.115 m to 20.125 m (absolute error = 0.005 m)
In this year, Australia switched from pounds, shillings and pence to decimal currency.
What is 1966?
A saltwater crocodile is measured as 4.6 m long, correct to the nearest 0.1 m. State the lower and upper limits of accuracy.
4.55 m to 4.65 m (absolute error = 0.05 m)
Kylie Minogue won a 2024 Grammy Award for this hit song.
What is Padam Padam?
This 2022 Baz Luhrmann film starred Austin Butler as a rock-and-roll legend.
What is Elvis?
In 1983, the yacht Australia II became the first non-American challenger to win this famous sailing trophy.
What is the America's Cup?
Uluru rises 348 m above the surrounding plain, measured to the nearest metre. Calculate the percentage error of this measurement, correct to 2 decimal places.
Absolute error = 0.5 m; 0.5 ÷ 348 × 100 ≈ 0.14%
The last known thylacine died in a Hobart zoo in 1936. This is its common name.
What is the Tasmanian tiger?
A concert lasts 2 hours 15 minutes, timed to the nearest 5 minutes. State the lower and upper limits of accuracy.
2 h 12.5 min to 2 h 17.5 min (absolute error = 2.5 min)
This 1986 film starred Paul Hogan as an outback crocodile hunter visiting New York.
What is Crocodile Dundee?
Australia won a record 18 gold medals at this Olympic Games.
What is Paris 2024?
A student estimates the arch span of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as 480 m. The actual span is 503 m. Calculate the percentage error, correct to 1 decimal place.
Error = 23 m; 23 ÷ 503 × 100 ≈ 4.6%
A ranger weighs a Rottnest Island quokka as 3 kg, to the nearest kilogram. A vet's scale gives its mass as 3.38 kg. Calculate the percentage error in the ranger's reading, correct to 1 decimal place.
Error = 0.38 kg; 0.38 ÷ 3.38 × 100 ≈ 11.2%
Fronted by Mandawuy Yunupingu, this band had a 1991 hit with the song 'Treaty'.
Who is Yothu Yindi?
A cinema screen is measured as 18.4 m wide, correct to the nearest 0.1 m. Calculate the percentage error of this measurement, correct to 2 decimal places.
Absolute error = 0.05 m; 0.05 ÷ 18.4 × 100 ≈ 0.27%
A running track lap is measured as 400 m, to the nearest metre, and a runner's lap time is recorded as 50 s, to the nearest second. Find the greatest possible average speed of the runner, correct to 2 decimal places.
Greatest distance ÷ least time = 400.5 ÷ 49.5 ≈ 8.09 m/s
This Australian prime minister disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach, Victoria, in December 1967.
Who is Harold Holt?
In 1932, soldiers armed with machine guns were sent to fight thousands of emus in the 'Great Emu War' in this state.
What is Western Australia?
A concert stage measures 12 m by 8 m, each to the nearest metre, giving a calculated area of 96 m². Find the maximum possible percentage error in this area, correct to 1 decimal place.
Max area = 12.5 × 8.5 = 106.25 m²; error = 10.25 m²; 10.25 ÷ 96 × 100 ≈ 10.7%
This 2015 Australian action film won six Academy Awards, more than any other film that night.
What is Mad Max: Fury Road?