Science
What are the three mains states of matter (double points for naming a fourth)
Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma
TEEL paragraph structure
Topic
Evidence
Explanation
Link
BOMDAS
Brackets
Orders
Multiplication
Division
Addition
Subtraction
What are the two types of sources and what is the difference?
Primary and Secondary
What are the two houses of Australian parliament? (double points for which is lower and upper)
Senate (upper) and Representatives (lower)
Name the three kinds of particles in an atom
Proton, Electron and Neutron
Name two types of poetry
What is the difference between simple and compound interest?
Simple interest indexes by a constant amount that is a certain percentage of the initial value
Compound interest is recalculated after every interest installment
To the nearest 5,000, how old is the culture of Aboriginal Australians?
What is 65,000 or 80,000
What are the three branches of government? (Double points for explaining the importance of all three)
What are judiciary (manage the judgement of law), legislature (makes and changes law) and executive (enacts law)
Name two phases of the water cycle
Evaporation, Transpiration, Condensation, Precipitation, Run off/Collection
In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette, the titular characters are famously from two feuding houses. Name one of them (double points for both)
Who are Montague and Capulet
Find θ
105o
This city is where Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was shot, beginning the First World War. (Capital of modern-day Bosnia and Herzagovina)
Where is Sarajevo
Describe a referendum (double points for naming a referendum exc. Voice to Parliament)
A vote undertaken by the entire country in order to alter the constitution. Ex. 1967
What is the name of Charles Darwin's theory that suggest evolution
Natural Selection
Exactly name a quote of 5 or more words from any piece of literature we covered in high school
Answers will vary
Quadratic Formula
[b2 +-sqr(-b-4ac)]/2a
This hotel in a small NSW town was where Ned Kelly made his last stand
Where is the Glenrowan Hotel
What is a Governor General
The Kings representative in Australia
What kind of substance has pH of 9
Alkaline
In Shakespeare's Macbeth has Banquo killed because the witches tell him this.
What is that Banquo's decedents will be King
Find the volume of this object (units count)
20m3
This stretch of Papua New Guinea was instrumental in defending the Australian mainland from the Japanese and was known as some of the hardest conditions of the Second World War
Where is the Kakoda Trail
How does rank choice voting work
You number your preferences, and the party with the least number one preferences are then taken to there second preference and so on until there is a winner.