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Types of mining
Women on the goldfields
Chinese on the goldfields
Life on the diggings
WILD CARD
100
What type of mining involved getting the gold from the gravel of a creek bed?
Panning
100
Why did the women on the goldfields make soup or mutton stew?
To make extra money
100
TRUE OR FALSE: Chinese miners did not dig their own shafts.
True
100
If there were more than 20 children in a mining area, what did the government set up?
Tent schools
100
TRUE or FALSE: Diggers who shared the same nationality normally lived a different area.
FALSE
200
What continent was the gold cradle invented in?
North America
200
If a woman's husband found gold, who would then do housework for that family?
Servants
200
How many days a week did the Chinese diggers work?
7
200
What did the diggers use a pile of dried bracken for?
Mattress
200
Why were children forced to drink filthy creek water?
Fresh milk was too expensive
300
What type of mining involved digging sideways along lines of gold-bearing rock?
Tunnelling
300
What fraction of people on the goldfields were women?
One quarter
300
What state tried to stop the Chinese miners coming into Australia by taxing them?
Victoria
300
What did the diggers eat for breakfast and lunch?
Chops (beef or mutton)
300
In the 1850s, one quarter of all deaths on the Ballarat goldfields were children under the age of .......?
Five
400
By the end of the 1850s, what two states had most of their easily mined gold dug up?
NSW and Victoria
400
Who helped the women give birth on the goldfields?
Female neighbours
400
Chinese miners re-worked abandoned claims using a hundred men at a time to re-wash whole gullies. What was this process called?
Paddocking
400
What type of food went out of fashion because the diggers kept catching disease from eating this food in a glass?
Ice cream
400
Tent churches could hold up to .......... people.
1000
500
What is the name of the equipment that was used to wind up a bucket full of gravel to the surface?
Windlass
500
What saved a woman from drowning in a disused mine shaft?
Wide skirt
500
What was the name of the river where the Chinese diggers were attacked by European diggers?
Buckland River
500
What crime was committed a lot in the diggings?
Theft
500
There were many "coffee tents" or sly-grog shops on the diggings. This was the government didn't allow ........ to be built.
Pubs