“It was possibly lucky my mother didn’t marry her first fiancé because he ended up in Freemantle Prison.”
What is The Silver Medallist
100
Weapon that returns to the user if it doesn’t hit its target
What is boomerang
100
Leader of One Nation
What is Pauline Hanson
200
Discoverer and founder of the British colony
What is James Cook
200
Marsupial from the family of macropods. A national symbol in Australia
What is kangaroo
200
“Is coming home in all his might, in his shining armour”
What is Going Home
200
Party held among aboriginals (nowadays also among whites)
What is corroboree
200
Island where boat refugees are placed
What is Nauru
300
Year of the arrival of the First Fleet and the establishment of the British penal colony
What is 1788
300
Rural, undeveloped land that is iconic in Australia
What is the bush
300
“You’ve got no choice. If you come here we can keep an eye on Charley. If you don’t, the government men will take him away. You don’t want that, do you?”
What is Heart is Where the Home is
300
Spiritual understanding of the origin
What is dreamtime
300
Present Australian prime minister
What is Malcolm Turnbull
400
Period of feverish migration of workers in the search of valuable minerals in the second half of 19th century
What is The Gold Rush
400
Essay that describes why the Europeans had troubles understanding Australian nature
What is The Future Eaters
400
“I believe Philip has insisted upon cutting himself off by marrying the Pool Hussy. Well, he can see how he likes getting on without me.”
What is Up the country
400
Music instrument, a big wind horn, originally made of tree trunks hollowed by termites
What is didgeridoo
400
Governmental system in Australia
What is federal parliamentary democracy/ constitutional monarchy
500
First Australian prime minister
Edmund Barton
500
Abbreviation to denominate a quasiperiodic climate pattern
What is ENSO
500
“Mother, I won’t never go drovin’, blast me if I do!”
What is The Drover’s Wife
500
Degrading word about aboriginals
What is boong
500
Head of state according to the Australian Constitution