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This is the only number that has the same number of letters as its value.
What is four?
The name of this phobia, meaning the fear of long words, ironically contains 36 letters
What is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?
This is the Australian slang term for a U-turn, often used when giving directions like "chuck a" this at the next roundabout.
What is a u-ey (or youie)?
When someone is being evasive or not getting to the point, you tell them to stop "beating around the" this.
What is bush?
This Australian won his first of five Olympic gold medals in swimming at the 2000 Sydney Olympics
Who is Ian Thorpe?
A father and son are in a car crash. The father dies instantly. The son is taken to hospital and needs surgery. The surgeon says "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son." This is possible because of this relationship.
What is the surgeon is his mother (or the surgeon is his other dad/parent)?
This is the longest word you can type using only the top row of a QWERTY keyboard.
What is "typewriter"?
This uniquely Australian phrase means to call in sick for work that isn't genuine, often done on a Friday or Monday to extend the weekend
What is chucking a sickie?
This idiom means to be cautious about trusting someone again after they've wronged you, completing "once bitten, twice" this.
What is shy?
This Australian pop princess had her breakthrough in 1987 but dominated the 2000s with "Can't Get You Out of My Head" in 2001, performing at the Sydney Olympics closing ceremony.
Who is Kylie Minogue?
If you're running a race and you pass the person in second place, you are now in this position.
What is second place?
This is the only common English word that ends in
"-mt".
What is "dreamt"?
In Australian slang, if you're "flat out like a lizard drinking," you are doing this.
What is being very busy?
When someone meddles in affairs that don't concern them, they're told "not my circus, not my"
What are monkeys?
In 2008, this Australian Prime Minister delivered a formal apology to the Stolen Generations in his first major act after defeating John Howard.
Who is Kevin Rudd?
A plane crashes exactly on the border between Australia and New Zealand. According to international law, survivors should be buried in this country.
Trick question, you don't bury survivors.
This punctuation mark gets its name from the Greek words "para" (beside) and "graphein" (to write), and it looks like this: ΒΆ.
What is a pilcrow?
This iconic Australian soap opera, set in Erinsborough, has been running since 1985 and launched the careers of Margot Robbie, Chris and Liam Hemsworth.
What is Neighbours?
This idiom means to work extremely hard, as in "burn the candle at both" what?
What are ends?
This Australian hip-hop group released "The Hard Road" in 2006 and became known for their socially conscious lyrics and the hit "Chase That Feeling."
Who are Hilltop Hoods?
Before Mount Everest was discovered, this was technically the tallest mountain on Earth.
What is Mount Everest?
This word, meaning the day before yesterday, is the opposite of "overmorrow" which means the day after tomorrow.
What is ereyesterday (or nudiustertian)?
This is the proper name for the Australian tradition of attaching a clothesline to a rotating pole in the backyard, invented by Lance Hill in Adelaide in 1945.
What is a Hills Hoist?
This archaic idiom means to speak plainly without fancy words, as in "call a spade a" this.
What is spade?
This Aboriginal athlete lit the Olympic cauldron at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and won gold in the 400m, wearing a full-body suit with indigenous designs
Who is Cathy Freeman?