Australian History
This year marked the Federation of Australia.
What is 1901?
H₂O is the chemical formula for this substance.
What is water?
The author of Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
The capital city of Australia.
What is Canberra?
WWW stands for this.
What is the World Wide Web?
What is Miss Douglas’s favourite colour?
What is pink?
What is the acronym that represents the core values of Rooty Hill High School?
What is PERSIST?
What is the tallest mountain in the world above sea level?
What is Mount Everest?
Which team did the Penrith Panthers defeat 46‑26 in the semi‑finals to advance to the preliminary final in the 2025 NRL finals series?
What is the Canterbury‑Bankstown Bulldogs?
I’m the number that won’t change your friend; multiply by me—same in the end.
What is 1 (multiplicative identity)?
The first Prime Minister of Australia.
Who is Edmund Barton?
The part of the cell that contains DNA.
What is the nucleus?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
The world’s largest coral reef system, located in Queensland.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
The handheld device invented by Apple in 2007 that changed mobile technology.
What is the iPhone?
How many sisters does Miss Douglas have?
What is two?
Who is the current Head Teacher Senior School at Rooty Hill High School?
Who is Miss Munzie?
How many players are on the field for each team in a standard game of soccer (football)?
What is 11?
Which major telecommunications provider is facing legal action following emergency call (Triple‑Zero) failures that are linked to multiple deaths?
What is Optus?
I’m a screen of squares where dancers live; short, looping videos are what I give.
What is TikTok?
This referendum allowed the Commonwealth to make laws for Aboriginal people.
What is the 1967 Referendum?
This type of energy is produced by moving water.
What is hydroelectric energy?
The main idea or message in a story is called this.
What is the theme?
The line of latitude that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
The Australian scientist who invented Wi-Fi.
Who is John O’Sullivan (and CSIRO team)?
In what month does Miss Douglas celebrate her birthday?
What is November?
What decade was Rooty Hill High School officially established?
What is the 1960s?
Which planet is closest to the sun?
What is Mercury?
Which university in New South Wales announced plans to cut more than 1,100 subjects, including teacher education and public health, as part of a financial turnaround?
What is the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)?
Read me forward and backward—I’m just the same. Name the word style that plays this game.
What is a palindrome?
This event in 1851 brought many people to Victoria and NSW in search of fortune.
What is the Gold Rush?
The greenhouse gas most responsible for climate change.
What is carbon dioxide (CO₂)?
This Australian author wrote Tomorrow, When the War Began.
Who is John Marsden?
This Asian country has the largest population in the world.
What is India?
The branch of science focused on designing machines with human-like intelligence.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
Who is Miss Douglas’s favourite singer or celebrity?
Who is Beyoncé?
What is the school motto of Rooty Hill High School?
What is 'Learning, Leadership and Achievement'
Which artist painted the famous artwork The Starry Night?
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
What major sporting event is planned to take place on the South Lawn of the White House in 2026, to celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary?
What is a UFC mixed martial arts event (UFC fight night)?
I’m the green chef in leafy cafes, cooking with light on sunny days.
What is photosynthesis?
The 1938 protest held on the 150th anniversary of colonisation, organised by Aboriginal activists.
What is the Day of Mourning?
This theory explains how continents move across the Earth’s surface.
What is plate tectonics?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
The line of longitude at 180° that roughly marks the change of one calendar day to the next is called this.
What is the International Date Line?
The computer programming language named after a type of snake.
What is Python?
How many times has Miss Douglas taught the HSC Business Studies course?
What is 12 times?
In what year did Ms Cawsey become the Principal of Rooty Hill High School?
What is 1997?
What number comes next in this sequence: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, ___?
What is 17?
What sentence did Erin Patterson receive in 2025 for the fatal mushroom lunch that killed three people in Leongatha, Victoria?
What is life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years?
I’m a comparison without “like” or “as,” a tiger in a maths class.
What is a metaphor?