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100
Australia is the smallest of these.
What is a continent?
100
Type of an animal who carries its young in a pouch.
What is a marsupial?
100
What must all Australians do at election time - it's the law!
What is vote?
100
Great Britain originally used Australia as this.
What is a penal colony?
100
National language of Australia.
What is English?
200
The majority of the people in Australia live within 1/2 drive of this because of the temperate climate.
What is the coast?
200
A nocturnal animal that eats eucalyptus leaves.
What is the koala?
200
In Australia, the two houses are the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is Parliament?
200
The British explorer who is credited with discovering Australia.
Who was Captain Cook?
200
The predominant religion of Australia.
What is Christianity?
300
A large desert in central Australia named for a British monarch.
What is the Great Victoria Desert?
300
Ranging in size from a mouse to a human, this animal is hunted for meat and gets around by hopping.
What is the kangaroo?
300
Location of the federal government of Australia (city and territory).
What is Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)?
300
The first people that inhabited Australia.
Who are the Aborigines?
300
The head of the government -- the political position that has the most power in Australia.
What is the Prime Minister?
400
Over 1,200 miles long, this living organism, located off the northeast coast of Australia, is visited by millions each year.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
400
The call of this bird sounds like the maniacal cackling of a human.
What is a kookaburra?
400
Country that Australia gained its independence from and modeled its government on.
What is Great Britain?
400
The national sport of Australia.
What is Australian Rules Football (or Australian Football or footy)?
400
An island off the south coast of Australia.
What is Tasmania?
500
A large landform in central Australia made of red sandstone which is sacred to the Aborigines.
What is Uluru (or Ayers Rock)?
500
The only two known egg-laying mammals in the world.
What are the platypus and the echidna?
500
A Federal Parliamentary Democracy
What type of government does Australia have?
500
The day Australians celebrate the founding of the first European settlement in Australia in 1788.
What is Australia Day (Jan. 26)?
500
The harsh, vast desert areas in the interior of the Australian continent.
What is the Outback?