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  Bound for South Australia editor best quiz   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
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Put on your Akubra, grab a Vegemite sandwich and join me for a drive around my beautiful home state of South Australia.
Average, 15 Qns, NatalieW, Nov 29 14
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Symbols of South Australia
  Symbols of South Australia    
Photo Quiz
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This is a quiz on the symbols of South Australia. How many will you know or be able to guess?
Average, 10 Qns, dcpddc478, Jun 18 19
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Jun 18 19
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  Adelaide Australia   popular trivia quiz  
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Much maligned, much loved, welcome to my home Adelaide Australia.
Average, 10 Qns, quogequox, Jan 13 17
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  South Australia   popular trivia quiz  
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Like most South Australians, I'm very patriotic. Here's a quiz on some of my personal favourite aspects of this great state.
Average, 10 Qns, acidclown, Nov 17 22
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Nov 17 22
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  South Australia (A mixed bag)    
Multiple Choice
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This is an interesting quiz on my home state of South Australia.
Average, 10 Qns, nuggetkelpie, Jun 05 20
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Jun 05 20
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  South Australia - Odds and Sods    
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I've lived in SA all my life so here is a random tour of this great state and some of my favourite places.
Tough, 10 Qns, craigles, Jan 03 15
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  Flinders Ranges   popular trivia quiz  
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The Flinders Ranges is a spectacular South Australian mountain range that extends north south for over 400km . The Flinders is a prime tourist area for walkers, painters, photographers and for anybody seeking a carefree holiday.
Tough, 10 Qns, nuggetkelpie, Jul 23 21
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Jul 23 21
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  Adelaide    
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How much do you know about Adelaide, South Australia and its environs? Try your luck here.
Difficult, 10 Qns, silvabelle, Nov 12 16
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trivia question Quick Question
The "Bat Cave" is found ... where?

From Quiz "South Australia - Odds and Sods"





South Australia Trivia Questions

1. Driving through the picturesque Adelaide Hills, you may come to this town and sample some apfelstrudel and Black Forest cake. Which town?

From Quiz
South Australia - Odds and Sods

Answer: Hahndorf

Hahndorf was originally settled in 1839 by refugees from Prussia and Silesia. Birdwood, Cudlee Creek and Williamstown are also towns of SA, but not necessarily in the Hills. Birdwood was originally named Blumberg.

2. Mount Woodroffe is the highest mountain in South Australia. It is 1617 metres high and is located in the far north of South Australia. Which mountain range is it a part of?

From Quiz South Australia (A mixed bag)

Answer: Musgrave Ranges

The Musgrave Range is on a large plateau in the north of the state. It is located on Aboriginal native title land and are not readily accessable to many people.

3. Which river flows through the city of Adelaide?

From Quiz Adelaide Australia

Answer: Torrens

The river Torrens flows down from the Adelaide hills through the suburbs and city of Adelaide and into the Gulf St Vincent. The river level is controlled by a weir allowing enough water for paddle boats and rowing clubs to enjoy. Every so often the water is drained out so the river floor can be cleaned. The river is quite polluted, swimming is either not allowed or not recommended. For fishermen not fussy about what they catch the water is home to numerous European Carp, a noxious fish in Australia.

4. South Australia is famous for its many festivals. One of its most popular is Womadelaide. Where was this festival held in 2004?

From Quiz South Australia

Answer: Botanic Park

Womadelaide is a three day festival of world music and culture held in Botanic Park on the outskirts of the Adelaide CBD. It attracts musicians and tourists from all corners of the globe.

5. After whom was the city of Adelaide named?

From Quiz Adelaide

Answer: Queen Adelaide

The City of Adelaide was named after Queen Adelaide of England, who lived from 1792 to 1849. She was the wife of King William IV.

6. The "Bat Cave" is found ... where?

From Quiz South Australia - Odds and Sods

Answer: Naracoorte Caves Conservation Park

Bentwing bats migrate each spring to Naracoorte Caves CP in the south-east of the state, where they join the resident bat population. Infra-red cameras installed in the caves allow visitors to view the bats without disturbing these tiny creatures. Between November and February you can watch thousands of bats flying from the cave to feed on insects in the evening. Innes National Park is on the sourthern tip of Yorke Peninsula, and Pinkawillinie is on upper Eyre Peninsula.

7. What is the South Australian fauna state animal?

From Quiz South Australia (A mixed bag)

Answer: Southern Hairy Nosed Wombat

The Southern Hairy Nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus Latifrons) is a rare native masupial native to South Australia. It lives in underground burrows and is vegetarian. Due to their burrowing habits and the undermining of fences, they were hunted nearly to extinction by farmers but are now fully protected. They are the size of a small pig and extremely solid. They are closely related to the koala. They can also be known to mess up the front end of your car very badly if you run into them.

8. What is the highest mountain peak in the Flinders Ranges?

From Quiz Flinders Ranges

Answer: St Marys Peak

St Marys Peak is the highest peak in the Flinders Ranges but not the highest in South Australia. All of these prominent peaks form part of the Wilpena Pound Rim which is the most popular tourist area of the Flinders Ranges.

9. Who founded the city of Adelaide?

From Quiz Adelaide Australia

Answer: Colonel Light

The statue of Colonel Light looks over the city he founded from Montefiore Hill. The Colonel designed the city within a ring of parklands. These parklands remain today and are home to numerous sporting clubs, walking trails and gardens.

10. South Australia is home to one of the nation's top beer maker, Coopers Brewery. If you were drinking from a Cooper's bottle with a green circle on the label, which beer would you be consuming?

From Quiz South Australia

Answer: Coopers Pale Ale

Pale Ale is the highest selling of the Coopers range. Sparkling Ale features a red label, Dark Ale is brown and stout is yellow.

11. Hopping into the car, we head south, travelling down to Cape Jervis on the tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula. Here, we'll be catching the SeaLink ferry to an island famed for its natural beauty and wildlife. Where are we going?

From Quiz Bound for South Australia

Answer: Kangaroo Island

Kangaroo Island lies just off the tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula. The ferry docks at Penneshaw, and the island's largest town, Kingscote, is a short drive around the north coast. Kingscote is home base to a thriving tourism industry based largely upon the island's wildlife. Seal Bay, on the island's south coast, is home to a large breeding colony of sea-lions. The bay is a conservation park and the sea-lions are protected by law, but visitors are welcome to walk down onto the beach to within a few metres of the sea-lions. There is also a boardwalk from which the sea-lions can be viewed.

12. How many hectares make up the Park Lands encircling Adelaide?

From Quiz Adelaide

Answer: 693

The Park Lands include facilities for for golf, cycling, aquatic activities, tennis and horse racing.

13. "Cream Puff Corner" can be found between which two towns?

From Quiz South Australia - Odds and Sods

Answer: Bute and Port Broughton

Every long weekend in October, local service clubs sell homemade cream puffs from this corner as a fundraiser. You have to be there early though.

14. The town of Melrose is a part of which section of the Flinders Ranges?

From Quiz Flinders Ranges

Answer: southern

Melrose is the southern most town of the Flinders Ranges and on one of the main routes to the Finders from Adelaide. Their town slogan is "Gateway to the Flinders".

15. Adelaide has its fair share of sporting teams. What is the name of its national basketball team?

From Quiz Adelaide Australia

Answer: 36ers

The Adelaide 36ers are named for the year 1836, the founding date of the colony of South Australia. Other national sporting teams in Adelaide include the Adelaide Crows and Port Power football teams, the Lightning womens basketball team and the Redbacks cricket side. Generally Adelaide's sporting teams have proven themselves more than competitive on the national front.

16. At the conclusion of every school year, South Australian high school graduates migrate to which town for their debaucherous 'Schoolies Week' celebrations?

From Quiz South Australia

Answer: Victor Harbor

The southern coastal town of Victor Harbor has its peace shattered at the start of every summer as year 12 students converge on the town to let their hair down and blow off some steam after their final exams.

17. What was the first name of the Colonel Light?

From Quiz Adelaide

Answer: William

Colonel William Light surveyed Adelaide in 1837. He also was the surveyor of Christchurch, New Zealand and the two locations are sister cities.

18. This is one of the most picturesque beaches in Australia. Nestled west of McLaren Vale, the southern part of the beach was declared legal for nude bathing by Premier Don Dunstan in 1975.

From Quiz South Australia - Odds and Sods

Answer: Maslin Beach

The cliffs are quite a sight. As is the beach itself on a summer's day - vast expanse of empty beach to the north, happy crowded beach to the south. Take plenty of drinking water and 30+ sunscreen. As they say, 'when in Rome ...' Moana is the next suburb to the north of Maslin, Myponga occurs further south, and Minlacowie is on the coast of southern Yorke Peninsula.

19. Leigh Creek was a mining town in the Flinders Ranges. What was mined there?

From Quiz Flinders Ranges

Answer: coal

The coal was mined and then transported by rail 270 km to Port Augusta Power Stations. These power stations then had their produced electricity transmitted 300km to the city of Adelaide.

20. Adelaide has developed a bit of a reputation as a place where odd and unpleasant crimes occur. In the 1970s and 1980s an infamous group was involved in the abduction and murder of young men. What was this group called?

From Quiz Adelaide Australia

Answer: The Family

Notorious murderer Bevan Spencer Von Einem was charged with the murder and torture of a 15 year old boy. His trial revealed evidence of a group of people working together to commit unspeakable crimes against young men. It was rumoured a number of high profile Adelaide identities were involved. Perhaps Adelaide's most famous crime was the abduction of the three Beaumont children in 1966. Taken from a busy city beach they have never been seen again.

21. If a South Australian sports fan was to go watch the Redbacks play, what sport would they be viewing?

From Quiz South Australia

Answer: Cricket

The Southern Redbacks are the South Australia's cricket team. Although they usually struggle to win many games, they have produced such national stars as Jason Gillespie and Darren Lehmann.

22. In what year did the Adelaide Central Market open?

From Quiz Adelaide

Answer: 1869

On Saturday 23 January at about 3:15 am a small but noisy procession wound its way from the East End Market towards the Victoria Square environs. To the lively strains of the Concordia Band eight carts laden with produce were driven by market gardeners to a site between Gouger and Grote Streets. In only a few hours about 500 purchasers quickly bought out the entire stock of goods for sale, so that for those hurrying to the scene of activity after 6:00 am, there was nothing left to buy. So began the first day of the Adelaide Central Market (then called City Market) back in 1869 in Grote Street on a site without any structure other then a fence and a couple of gas lights. The official opening was a year later in 22 January 1870. Source: The Adelaide Central Market web site

23. In 2007 a new ferry service commenced to cross Gulf St Vincent between Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas. The two embarkation points are at which towns?

From Quiz South Australia - Odds and Sods

Answer: Wallaroo and Lucky Bay

It's quite popular. The crossing takes about two hours, but to drive around the Gulf to the same point would be four hours.

24. What are the three interstate trains that service Adelaide?

From Quiz South Australia (A mixed bag)

Answer: The Ghan, Indian Pacific and Overland

The Ghan travels from Adelaide to Darwin. The section from Alice Springs to Darwin was only recently finished.(Well over 100 years after the Adelaide to Darwin rail line was commenced). The Indian Pacific runs from Adelaide to Perth and Sydney. The original journey from Sydney to Perth included gauge breaks at Broken Hill (NSW), Peterborough, Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie(WA). The Overland runs from Adelaide to Melbourne and is the oldest inter-capital city train not to have a change of gauge at the state border. The Sunlander and Tilt Train are Queensland intracity trains that run from Brisbane to Cairns with the Tilt Train being a luxurious tourist train.

25. A short trip by tram from Adelaide will get you to which seaside suburb?

From Quiz Adelaide Australia

Answer: Glenelg

Adelaide's one and only tram track will take you from the city centre to the beachside suburb of Glenelg. Glenelg was the site where the colony of South Australia was proclaimed. Today Glenelg has become a popular place to gather either on the beach, the surrounding parks or the numerous cafes that line its main street Jetty Road.

26. If a South Australian wanted to meet you at the Bay, which Adelaide beach would you head to?

From Quiz South Australia

Answer: Glenelg

Glenelg is commonly referred to as 'The Bay'. It is Adelaide's most popular beach and is always bustling on a sunny day.

27. On the road once more, we travel still further south, driving through the coastal towns of Robe, Beachport and Millicent on the way to a town named after a now-dormant volcano.

From Quiz Bound for South Australia

Answer: Mount Gambier

The volcano of Mount Gambier was formed around 4900 years ago, while the city of Mount Gambier was settled around 1840. The volcano is now dormant, and a lake fills what was the volcano's crater. This lake, known as the Blue Lake, undergoes an amazing transformation each year, changing from a dull grey to a brilliant turquoise blue each November to March. The southeastern region of South Australia is known for its limestone caves and Mount Gambier is no exception, with Cave Gardens located in the centre of town in a park opposite the town Post Office. The cave featured in the Cave Gardens display was once the water source for the town, with water being pumped up from its base.

28. The Southern Right Whale is called that because:

From Quiz Adelaide

Answer: it was the 'right' whale to hunt

Southern Right Whales were regarded by early whalers as the 'right' whale to hunt, because they swam very slowly and close to the shore. They also floated when harpooned and yielded large quantities of oil and whalebone. Source: VicNet.

29. There is a wind farm on the lower end of Yorke Peninsula. Which town are these "windmills" located close to?

From Quiz South Australia - Odds and Sods

Answer: Edithburgh

You can see those things for miles as you drive south. Warooka and Stenhouse Bay are windy towns too while Ardrossan is further north on the eastern coast of the peninsula.

30. The South Australian AFL (Australian Football League) club, Port Adelaide Football Club is known as?

From Quiz South Australia (A mixed bag)

Answer: Port Adelaide Power

Port Adelaide Football Club was established in 1870. It is the oldest league club in South Australia and is known as the magpies in the local competition. Port Adelaide has only been in the AFL since 1997 and has achieved one premiership since joining the AFL.

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