Take the Great Australian Trivia Test

So you think you know this great country of ours? Put your trivia knowledge to the test with these Easy, Medium and Hard questions from the new Reader's Digest board game, The Great Australian Road Trip.

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Easy Questions

Questions are worth 1, 2 or 3 points each, depending on the level of difficulty, for a grand total of 60.

Once you’ve finished, check out how you did on the Answers page. You must score at least 45 to be considered a true Australian trivia champion!

Easy (1 point each)

1. Which pop star played the title role in the 2006 film
Hating Alison Ashley?

2. What is the floral emblem of Australia?

3. What is Australia’s largest inland city?

4. What Aboriginal term for a waterhole is also the name of an Australian clothing company?

5. What do the letters of the television network SBS stand for?

6. What is the name of the original yellow Wiggle?

7. Which bushranger did Sidney Nolan portray in a series of paintings he created in 1946-47?

8. What was the name of the cyclone that devastated Darwin on Christmas Day 1974?

9. What finished second to ‘Advance Australia Fair’ in the 1977 referendum to choose a national song?

10. What natural disaster killed 13 people in Newcastle on December 28, 1989?

Answers

Easy (1 point each)

1. Which pop star played the title role in the 2006 film Hating Alison Ashley?
Delta Goodrem

2. What is the floral emblem of Australia?
Wattle

3. What is Australia’s largest inland city?
Canberra

4. What Aboriginal term for a waterhole is also the name of an Australian clothing company?
Billabong

5. What do the letters of the television network SBS stand for?
Special Broadcasting Service

6. What is the name of the original yellow Wiggle?
Greg Page

7. Which bushranger did Sidney Nolan portray in a series of paintings he created in 1946-47?
Ned Kelly

8. What was the name of the cyclone that devastated Darwin on Christmas Day 1974?
Tracy

9. What finished second to ‘Advance Australia Fair’ in the 1977 referendum to choose a national song?
‘Waltzing Matilda’

10. What natural disaster killed 13 people in Newcastle on December 28, 1989?
An earthquake

Take the Great Australian Trivia Test

So you think you know this great country of ours? Put your trivia knowledge to the test with these Easy, Medium and Hard questions from the new Reader's Digest board game, The Great Australian Road Trip.

Easy Questions

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