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Australian Treasure Hunt

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Australia : Australian Treasure Hunt

Introduction:
"We're going on a treasure hunt, Throughout the land I know, I'll give you clues and hints galore, There's lots of treasure, let's find more! So come on; have a go!"


1. The item first upon your list,

Is a special food,

Anzac biscuits you will need,

They'll put you in the mood!

You'd better get a'cookin' now,

And make a batch for me:

They're easy things for baking,

So choose the recipe!
    Ingredients include coconut, raspberry jam and eggs
    Ingredients include rolled oats, flour and golden syrup
    Ingredients include eggs, dried apple and coconut
    Ingredients include rice flour, dates and butter


2. You have to find a bunyip now,

An item on your list,

In which place will you look for it,

Ensuring you won't miss?
    Under a rock
    Up a gum tree
    A waterhole
    In a burrow


3. I guess you like koalas?

The fuzzy little dears,

Where will you be looking?

What will they be near?

Famous as attractions,

(You've seen them at the zoo),

But where will you be hunting,

To get a closer view?
    Down a burrow
    Up a gum tree
    In Tasmania
    Stealing plums


4. An opal is a treasure,

Beneath the earth, it's found,

Why not look where dwellings,

Are built right underground?

So where's this special mining place,

Unique; an outback town,

Where opals aren't the only things

You're finding underground.
    Beaconsfield, Tasmania
    Lightning Ridge, NSW
    Ballarat , Victoria
    Coober Pedy, South Australia


5. You need to find a kind of tree,

They call the huon pine,

Its yield is butter-coloured wood,

In beautiful design,

It makes a ship that's hard to sink,

It's turned to gorgeous plates,

But where is this tree growing

With all its lofty mates?
    Queensland's north
    Tasmania's south west
    Northern Territory's centre
    Kangaroo Island's coastal area


6. You want to find a joey (aghhhh!)

And take a snap, somehow,

But where will you go looking?

That's the puzzle now.
    In the pouch of a grey kangaroo
    In all of these places
    In the pouch of a koala
    In the pouch of a quokka


7. Where will you find a platypus?

A funny looking mammal

It looks as if committees made it,

(Then, so does a camel)

It has a soft bill like a duck,

It suckles young, lays eggs;

It spends much time in water

Has spurs on its hind legs.

You wonder where you'll find one

And what my clues are worth?

It's one of just two monotremes

Still living on our Earth.
    In a museum, stuffed. The platypus is extinct.
    In the River Todd, Northern Territory
    In the Mersey River in Tasmania
    In the sea, off Perth, Western Australia


8. "The Coathanger", (a nickname)

The "Tasman", and the "Bowen",

The "Richmond" is the oldest in Australia.

I'm talking bridges all around,

And one in Sydney will be found.

Seeking others there will end in failure.

So where will you be searching,

To find the other three?

Check the offered choices,

And say where they will be.
    Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania
    All in Tasmania
    All in Western Australia
    Two in South Australia, one in Queensland


9. You want to see a wild galah,

In pink and grey so sweet,

But where would you be looking for it?

Where will you two meet?
    In a billabong
    Under a rock
    In a burrow
    Up a gum tree


10. Boronia is pretty,

It gives a lot of pleasure,

But where will you discover

This valuable treasure?
    Growing in the bush or in gardens
    Painted on Uluru
    Up a gum tree
    It's part of the Sydney Opera House.


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