Backpack Bear - Quiz 1

Instructions

As a team answer the questions you know then find out the answers to the questions you don’t know.
Record the answers in a Word document and then save it as a pdf to attach to your email.
Remember there is a point for the correct answer and a point for the correct spelling and punctuation. Number the answers correctly. Do NOT repeat the question.
Answer the bonus question.
Use a font that is easy to read.
Make sure your team name is on the top of your document.
Open an email and address it to your Quest Co-ordinator which is likely to be your teacher or your teacher librarian.
In the subject line put Quiz 1 and your team name.
Attach your answers to your email.
Send it so that it arrives with your Quest Co-ordinator by the due date.

Which city is the national capital of Australia?
Name the states and territories of Australia - do not use abbreviations.
Which of these flags is our national flag? Choose the letter under the answer you think is correct.

A B C D

D E F G

What is the name of our national anthem?
Who is the Prime Minister of Australia?
Which political party does he/ she represent?
Who is the Governor General of Australia?
What is the name of this national emblem?

If you were in Australia’s national capital city, which city and state or territory would you be in? Do not use abbreviations.
Why is Edmund Barton a significant person in our history?
Who was the first person to claim this country as part of the British Empire on Friday, April 20, 1770
Why is the acacia pycnantha important to Australians?
Match these capital cities to their states or territories but do not use abbreviations.
- Hobart
- Darwin
- Perth
- Sydney
- Brisbane
- Melbourne
- Adelaide
You are standing on top of the highest mountain on the Australian mainland. Where are you?
What do the letters A.N.Z.A.C. stand for?
What is the approximate population of Australia?
- 28 000 000
- 26 000 000
- 24 000 000
- 22 000 000
Australia Day is January 26. Why is this a significant date in our history?
Which Australian poet created the character known as The Man from Snowy River?
Which Australian singer had a national hit with a song called The Pub with No Beer?
If you sailed around Australia's coastline, would you travel approximately
- 360 kilometres
- 3 600 kilometres
- 36 000 kilometres
- 360 000 kilometres

I am at the top of a mountain, first climbed by a European in 1840 and named by Polish explorer Count Paul Edmund Strzelecki. He named it after one of his country's heroes because he thought it looked like his tomb. While it stands in Ngarigo land, it is yet to be given an official indigenous name although Kunama Namadgi has been proposed.

The climb to the top was quite easy - a 6.5 kilometre walk along a raised walkway after I got off the chairlift from Thredbo and a short stop at Australia's highest public toilet at Rawson's Pass. The walkway protects the fragile alpine environment.

The summit is 2228 metres above sea level, making it Australia's highest mainland mountain and from it I can see other mountains of the Main Range of the Great Dividing Range, including Mt Townsend which is the second highest mountain, Mt Carruthers and Mt Twynam. They are all part of a national park which shares the name of this mountain.

If you wish to follow in my footsteps, you need to come here between November and April, although if you are skier you can come during the winter..

Where am I?

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