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How well do you know Australia?

10 rounds, 100 points

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Australia Quiz: How Well Do You Know Australia?

What Is in the Australia Quiz?

Ten rounds, alternating between four-option questions and puzzles. The five questions ask about the country's capital, its voting law, a national apology, a very long fence and its national day. The puzzles are different in kind: a run of five where you decide whether a city is Australian, a run of five where you decide whether a well known person is Australian, two ordering rounds where seven countries are already in the right order by population and then by area and you place Australia among them, and one round where a color on the Australian flag has been replaced and you drag a slider until it looks right.

There is no timer and no daily reset. Nothing is revealed between rounds, so the result screen is the first time you find out how any round went. It shows your score out of a hundred, a verdict, and what each of the ten rounds was worth.

What Does Your Score Mean?

The quiz ends with one of five verdicts. 90 to 100 points: You could give the tour. 75 to 89 points: You've earned the window seat. 60 to 74 points: Good enough for small talk. 45 to 59 points: You've only seen it on a map. 0 to 44 points: Australia remains a mystery.

The bottom band ends where it does on purpose. A player tapping at random averages about 39 points of 100, nearly all of it partial credit from the two ordering rounds and the color slider, so guessing never earns a verdict that reads as praise. A score of 60 or more means you answered rather than guessed.

Facts About Australia

Australia is the sixth largest country in the world by area, at about 7.7 million square kilometers, and it is the only country that covers a whole continent. Around 27 million people live there, most of them in cities near the coast, while the dry interior known as the Outback is almost empty.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have lived on the continent for tens of thousands of years, long before British colonies began in the late eighteenth century. The six colonies became one country in 1901, and today Australia is a parliamentary democracy with the British monarch as head of state.

Where Do the Questions Come From?

Every question's correct answer was checked against a published source before it shipped, and the decoys were checked too, for the opposite reason: a decoy that turns out to be true would give the question two defensible answers.

The population and area figures behind the two ordering rounds come from the same dataset the rest of the geography games use, so a country's rank here matches its rank in Order the Country and Match the Country. Scoring and sources work the same way on every country quiz, and are set out in full on the country quizzes page.

Are There Quizzes for Other Countries?

Yes, seven more, and each one is built the same way with its own questions, its own cities and people, and its own ordering rounds. There are the Germany quiz, the Bolivia quiz, the India quiz, the Mexico quiz, the Philippines quiz, the Zambia quiz and the South Africa quiz.

The 10 Rounds

Every round in this quiz, with what it asks and what it offers. No correct answer is marked, and the ordering rounds list their other countries alphabetically rather than in the real order, so nothing here is given away.

  1. Why did Australia build a new city, Canberra, as its capital?It was the first British settlement · It lies in the exact center of Australia · Gold had just been found on the site · Sydney and Melbourne could not agree
  2. Is this an Australian city?Christchurch · Brisbane · Darwin · Dunedin · Hobart
  3. What happens to an Australian who does not vote in a national election?They can be given a fine · They cannot vote next time · They must do community work · They lose their passport
  4. Order by population: insert Australia at the correct positionBurkina Faso · Madagascar · Nepal · Niger · North Korea · Syria · Taiwan
  5. In 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd publicly said sorry for what?Taking Aboriginal children from families · Letting Britain test nuclear bombs there · Taking part in the 2003 invasion of Iraq · Banning most Asian immigrants for decades
  6. Fix the color that has been changed on the flag
  7. Australia built a fence over 5,000 km long to protect its sheep from what?Wild camels · Dingoes · Kangaroos · Foxes
  8. Is this person Australian?Brian Johnson · Steve Irwin · Bear Grylls · Hugh Jackman · Peter Jackson
  9. Australia Day, 26 January, marks which event?Captain Cook's first landing in Australia, 1770 · The six colonies joining as one country, 1901 · The first British fleet arriving at Sydney, 1788 · The last convict ship arriving from Britain, 1868
  10. Order by area: insert Australia at the correct positionArgentina · Brazil · Canada · China · India · Kazakhstan · United States

What Else Is on Quizebra?

Quizebra has six daily geography games, including Name the Flag, Guess the Country and Find the Color, whose slider this quiz borrows. There are six football games, four brain games and four chess games built the same way.

Everything is free, nothing needs an account, and the daily games reset at midnight London time.