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Australian Scientists

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Australian Scientists game quiz
"Australian scientists? Of course we have our fair share of eggheads and boffins. We're not all about drinking beer and throwing prawns on the barbie."

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1. Australia's premier scientific organisation is the CSIRO. What does this acronym stand for?
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Commonwealth Scientific Investigative Recreational Organisation
    Capital Scientific Industrial and Recreational Organisation
    Capital Social Investment and Research Organisation


2. Who is known as the "father of the Australian wheat industry" for his work developing disease resistant wheat and higher quality flour for baking?
    Gregory Blaxland
    William Farrer
    William Lawson
    William Wentworth


3. Which Australian plastic surgeon has helped develop spray on skin, a treatment used to effect for the victims of the 2002 Bali bombing?
    Dr Fiona Stanley
    Dr John Carter III
    Dr Doug Ross
    Dr Fiona Wood


4. Which Australian doctor was a leader in the research that discovered a diet rich in folic acid can prevent spina bifida?
    Dr Theodore Geisel
    Dr Scholl
    Dr Fiona Stanley
    Dr Fiona Wood


5. Which Australian doctor received the Nobel Prize in 1945 for his work extracting Penicillin?
    Dr Howard Florey
    Dr Hannibal Lecter
    Dr Samuel Mudd
    Dr Henry Jekyll


6. Which Australian doctor, inspired by his father's hearing problems, led a team to develop the world's first bionic ear?
    Dr Graeme Clark
    Dr Howard Florey
    Dr Alexander Fleming
    Dr Jack Stapleton


7. Dr David Warren of the Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Melbourne developed which device now found in every commercial aeroplane in the world?
    Inflatable Aircraft Escape Slide & Raft
    Black Box Flight Recorder
    Airline food
    Wireless on board internet


8. Dr Earl Owen is a pioneer and world leader in which field of medicine?
    Microsurgery
    Neurosurgery
    In vitro fertilisation
    Heart surgery


9. Which Australian scientist is better known for his loud shirts than the machine he designed and built which picks up electrical signals from the human retina?
    Dr Henry Higgins
    Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
    Dr John Watson
    Dr Henry Wu


10. 2009 saw the first female Australian Nobel Prize winner. Professor Elizabeth Blackburn won her Nobel Prize in which field?
    Physics
    Economics
    Chemistry
    Medicine


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Compiled Jun 28 12