Fauna
Video Games
References in the Media
Politics, History & Geography
Culture
100
This Looney Tunes character is based on a surly Australian marsupial
Tasmanian Devil
100
In this 2019 indie-puzzle-stealth game, developed by House House, players control a goose who bothers the inhabitants of an English village
Untitled Goose Game
100
While Americans call them "bullfrogs", the pimply-faced clerk in Bart vs Australia suggested a different name
Chazzwazzers
100
What is Australia's official name
The Commonwealth of Australia
100
This food spread, made from leftover brewers' yeast extract, is often used to prank foreigners, who are told to spread it extra thick
Vegemite
200
The unusual appearance of this egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal at first baffled European naturalists, where the first scientists to examine a preserved body in 1799 judged it a fake made of several animals sewn together
Platypus
200
This Australian developer is most well known for his work on Sega's Sonic franchise, but his newly formed studio released "Penny's Big Breakaway" in early 2024
Christian Whitehead
200
In the Uncharted series, this character is of mixed Indian-Australian descent
Chloe Frazer
200
Australia has this many states and territories
There are 8:
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
200
One of these four Australian actors was actually born in New Zealand:
- Hugh Jackman
- Russell Crowe
- Margot Robbie
- Chris Hemsworth
Russell Crowe
300
These two animals appear on the Australian Coat of Arms
Kangaroo & Emu
300
This mystery-adventure game developed by Modern Storyteller initially started as a Skyrim mod of the same name, where the player finds themselves trapped in a time-loop in an ancient Roman city
The Forgotten City
300
In Season 3 of The Good Place, Eleanor travels to Australia to find Chiidi working at this institution
St. John's University, Sydney
300
Name at least four of the capital cities
In same order:
- ACT - Canberra
- NSW - Sydney
- NT - Darwin
- QLD - Brisbane
- SA - Adelaide
- TAS - Hobart
- VIC - Melbourne
- WA - Perth
300
This Aussie performed an interesting set at the debut of 'Breaking' during the 2024 Summer Olympics
Rachael "Raygun" Gunn
400
This (thankfully) fictional creature is a collective prank used to scare tourists
Dropbear
400
This puzzle-platform game, initially released on the Wii by Blue Tongue Entertainment (published by THQ), has players embark on a quest to re-animate Chroma City and free it from the monochromatic INKT Corporation "by splattering buildings, landmarks, and citizens with colour"
de BLOB
400
Survivor visited Australia, with the early season The Australian Outback, but can CJ remember exactly which season it was?
Season 2 (winner: Tina Wesson)
400
Barack Obama needed to remember the names of this many different Australian Prime Ministers during his presidency from 20 January 2009 to 20 January 2017
There were 4 different Prime Ministers:
- Kevin Rudd 3/12/2007 to 24/06/2010
- Julia Gillard 24/06/2010 to 27/06/2013
- Kevin Rudd (again) 27/06/2013 to 18/09/2013
- Tony Abbott 18/09/2013 to 15/09/2015
- Malcolm Turnbull 15/09/2015 to 24/08/2018
400
This Aussie musical comedy trio had a viral YouTube hit with their "four chord song" mashup medley
The Axis of Awesome
500
The Australian military failed at protecting Western Australian farmland in this 1932 "battle"
The Emu War
500
This 2003 first-person indie game created by solo developer Alexander "Demruth" Bruce involves you exploring "an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward"
Antichamber
500
In this movie, Anthony Anderson and Jerry O'Connell are forced to deliver $50,000 in mob money to Australia, but things go haywire when the cash is taken by the titular title character
Kangaroo Jack
500
Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared while swimming in the ocean on 17th December 1967; this public building was named in his honour
The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre (Glen Iris, Melbourne)
500
This mining magnate, and Australia's richest woman, tried to suppress an Aboriginal artist’s unflattering portrait of her
Gina Rinehart
