RAHS History Quiz
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1. Which ship was wrecked off Sydney Heads in 1857 with the loss of 121 lives?
2. What was the name of the cyclone which destroyed Darwin on Christmas Eve 1974?
3. Which Sydney landmark opened on 19 March 1932?
4. What was the name of the war involving Australian troops which began in 1899?
5. In what year was television introduced to Australia?
6. Who was the only Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
7. Who was the first Australian Prime Minister?
8. Who was the first Premier of New South Wales (in 1846)?
9. Who was the first Chief Justice of New South Wales, appointed in 1823?
10. Which Australian Prime Minister disappeared in 1967?
11. What internationally recognised Australian symbol did Harold Thomas design in 1971?
12. Which two Australians are pictured on the $100 banknote?
13. Who was the longest-serving member of Federal parliament, clocking up over 50 years?
14. Which female Aboriginal tennis player won two Wimbledon singles titles?
15. Who was the first person to circumnavigate Australia (in 1802-3)?
16. What is the oldest intact building in Australia still on its original site?
17. Where in Australia are both the country's oldest bridge and oldest Catholic Church?
18. Which was Australia's first university, established in 1850?
19. In which Australian state is the John Oxley Library?
20. Which Australian outback service had its origins in Cloncurry, Queensland, in 1928?
1. The Dunbar find out more
2. Cyclone Tracy find out more
3. The Sydney Harbour Bridge find out more
4. The Boer War or Anglo-South African War find out more
5. 1956 find out more
6. Patrick White in 1973 find out more
7. Edmund Barton find out more
8. Stuart Alexander Donaldson find out more
9. Francis Forbes find out more
10. Harold Holt find out more
11. The Aboriginal flag find out more
12. Dame Nellie Melba and Sir John Monash find out more
13. William Morris ("Billy") Hughes find out more
14. Evonne Goolagong Cawley find out more
15. Matthew Flinders find out more
16. Elizabeth Farm, Parramatta (1793) find out more
17. Richmond, Tasmania find out more
18. The University of Sydney find out more
19. Queensland find out more
20. Royal Flying Doctor Service find out more