ANZAC Trivia 1
True or False
ANZAC Trivia 3
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ANZAC Trivia 5
100
On ANZAC Day a song is played by either a Trumpet or Bugle during the service?
The Last Post.
It is a song that was played during wartime to tell soldiers that day was over and they could rest.
100
Australia is the first country in the world to see the sunrise.
False
The first country to see the sun rise is New Zealand.
100
Where is the Australian War Memorial?
Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory
100
What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Au.
100
What does ANZAC stand for?
ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, which was a group of soldiers who fought during World War I.
200
What is the Victoria Cross?
Highest British Commonwealth Award for conspicuous bravery in the face of the enemy
200
'A' is the most common letter used in the English language.
False - it's 'E'
200
Why are ANZAC Day services at Dawn?
This is the time the soldiers landed at Gallipoli
200
Where did the 2000 Summer Olympics take place?
Sydney, Australia
200
When is the Australian Flag flown at half-mast?
Flags are flown at half-mast on ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day and as a sign of mourning.
300
What are the words of the Ode?
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
The Ode comes from the fourth stanza of the poem For the fallen by the English poet and writer, Laurence Binyon (Figure 2). It was published in London in The winnowing fan: poems of the Great War in 1914. By 1921, it was used in association with commemorative services in Australia.
300
Australia was the first country in the world that allowed women to vote.
False
Australia was actually the second country to allow women to vote in 1902 and Indigenous women weren't given the same rights until 1962.
300
Where is Gallipoli?
Gallipoli is a peninsula of land in western Turkey separating the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles: the site of the costly but unsuccessful campaign by the Allies in the First World War.
300
What is the most widely consumed drink in the world, after water?
Tea.
300
Why is 'The Last Post' played at ANZAC Day services and military funerals?
It symbolizes the end of their journey
400
What was the origin of the famous Digger hat?
According to what was known years ago as the New South Wales Ordnance Department, it was born from a shortage of helmets during the South African War.
400
Honeybees have five eyes.
True – honeybees have two large compound eyes and three smaller ocelli eyes.
400
Why does Australia commemorate ANZAC Day on 25 April?
Since 1915, one day in the year has involved the whole of Australia in solemn ceremonies of remembrance, gratitude and national pride. That day is ANZAC Day - 25 April.
Why does the Nation pause to commemorate what most historians choose to describe as a failure or a sad series of blunders? It is because every person and every nation must, sooner or later, come for the first time to a supreme test of quality; and the result of that test will hearten or dishearten those who come afterwards. For Australia as a nation that first supreme test began in the early hours of Sunday 25 April 1915 on the Gallipoli Peninsula in the Eastern Mediterranean.
400
What’s the ratio of sheep per person in Australia?
3.3 sheep to every person.
400
Why do we wear poppies on Anzac Day?
They were among the first plants to spring up in the devastated battlefields of northern France and Belgium.
500
In which country did the Australians do their training before embarking on the ships that transported them to Gallipoli?
Egypt
500
Grapefruit can cause poisoning if consumed with some prescribed drugs.
True.
500
Did Aboriginal people serve?
Despite not being legally allowed to serve, many Aboriginal Australians also volunteered as ANZACs. They had to lie about their race in order to enlist, but their involvement is still rarely recognised. Experts believe around 800-1000 Indigenous soldiers served during WWI.
500
Which insect migrates about 3,000 miles each year?
The monarch butterfly.
500
Why is the red poppy a symbol of sacrifice?
November is poppy month, the time of the year when by the wearing of a simple emblem, a red poppy, we salute the memory of those who sacrificed their health, their strength, even their lives, that we might live in a free country.
Long known as the corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) because it flourishes as a weed in grain fields, the Flanders poppy as it is now usually called, grew profusely in the trenches and craters of the war zone. Artillery shells and shrapnel stirred up the earth and exposed the seeds to the light they needed to germinate.
This same poppy also flowers in Turkey in early spring - as it did in April 1915 when the ANZACs landed at Gallipoli. According to Australia’s official war historian C.E.W.Bean, a valley south of ANZAC beach got its name Poppy Valley “from the field of brilliant red poppies near its mouth”.