Aussie Slang
Top 10 Classic Songs
Top 10 Class Song Lyrics
Dorothea Mackellar
My Country Poetic Devices
100

What is a Sheila

A woman

100

John Williamson's Classic country song

True Blue

100

Finish the line:

I come from the land _____  ______

down under

100

Which country is Stanza 1 based on?

England

100

I love a sunburnt country

Metaphor

200

If you are being 'fair dinkum' you are:

Honest, truthful

200

What is the song Beds Are Burning about?

Aboriginal land rights

200

Finish the line:

How do we sleep while our _____  _____  ________

beds are burning

200

Finish the following line:
My homing thoughts will ____

Fly
200

For flood and fire and famine

Alliteration

300

I haven't seen him in yonks!

A long time

300

According to Jimmy Barnes, the 'legendary steel city disciple' is running like what?

A cyclone

300

Finish the line:

Is it Mum and Dad, is it a ________________

cockatoo

300

Which colour is the land referenced as being?

Brown

300

Her pitiless blue sky

Personification

400

What would you be doing if you were having a chinwag?

Having a chat, talking to someone

400

What does the man from Brussels hand the lead singer of Men at Work according to the song Down Under?

A vegemite sandwich

400

Finish the line:

A father's son left to carry on _____  ______ in his veins

Blue denim

400

What kind of gemstone is at the heart of Australia?

An opal

400
Of droughts and flooding rains


DOUBLE POINTS:
Recite another line using the poetic device

Juxtaposition

500

If you were to take a gander, what would you be doing?

Taking a look at something

500

The song Great Southern Land is sung by this iconic Australian rock band

Icehouse

500

Finish the line:

Standing at the limit of an endless ocean stranded like a ________, lost at sea

runaway

500

What does the word pitiless mean?

Unforgiving, no remorse, no sympathy

500

Core of my heart, my country!

Repetition