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20 Questions: Aussie Slang Multiple Choice Quiz | Humanities

This is a quiz to test your knowledge on Australian slang.

A multiple-choice quiz by slowglass. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
slowglass

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
118,716

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
20

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
16 / 20

Plays
3952

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

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Question 1 of 20

1. What is a "Banana bender"? Hint

A person from New Zealand

A person from Queensland

A bartender

A zoo keeper

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Question 2 of 20

2. What is a "Crow eater"? Hint

A person from Tasmania

A person from England

A person from South Australia

A person from the USA

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Question 3 of 20

3. What is a "damper"? Hint

A large tin can used to boil water over a campfire

Diapers

Bread made from flour and water

An intoxicated person

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Question 4 of 20

4. An "ocker" is Australian slang for what? Hint

An unsophisticated person

A nervous person

A city slicker

The solid piece of perfumed disinfectant in a men's urinal

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Question 5 of 20

5. "Footy" is slang for which sport, in most of Australia? Hint

American Football

Skiing

Cricket

Australian Rules Football

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Question 6 of 20

6. What is a "milk bar"? Hint

Corner shop that sells takeaway food

A bar with customers usually under the age of 25

Coffee house

An ice cream truck

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Question 7 of 20

7. What is a "Pommy"? Hint

A person from Sydney

A palm tree

An Englishman

Wax for surfboard

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Question 8 of 20

8. What is a "yewy"? Hint

A U-Turn in traffic

A tree

A college student

A person from Canberra

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Question 9 of 20

9. What is a "bunyip"? Hint

Breakfast

A large male kangaroo

A walk in the outback by Aborigines

Mythical outback creature

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Question 10 of 20

10. What does the term "tucker" refer to? Hint

A school bus driver

A gymnast

Food

Falling off a surfboard

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Question 11 of 20

11. What is a "tinny"? Hint

A large tin can used to boil water over a campfire

Make a bad mistake

A can of beer

A carnivorous marsupial

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Question 12 of 20

12. In Aussie slang, what is "the Coathanger"? Hint

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Westgate Bridge

Sydney Opera House

Hobart Casino

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Question 13 of 20

13. What is a "Greenie"? Hint

A Type of pound note

A Gardener

An Environmentalist

A Stockbroker

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Question 14 of 20

14. What is known as a "stickybeak"? Hint

A big truck

A nosy person

A 375ml beer bottle

A vegetarian

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Question 15 of 20

15. What is a "bludger"? Hint

A large male kangaroo

A butcher

A lazy person

A small rubber mallet

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Question 16 of 20

16. What is a "bingle"? Hint

A motor vehicle accident

A despicable person

To attack food with enthusiasm

A suitcase

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Question 17 of 20

17. What is a "cozzie"? Hint

A swimsuit

A milkman

A relative

A motor vehicle accident

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Question 18 of 20

18. What is the term "Sandgroper" mostly used to describe? Hint

A sunbather

A person from Northern Australia

A person from Western Australia

A surfer

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Question 19 of 20

19. What is a "billabong"? Hint

A giant mistake

A watering hole

Someone who surfs

Someone who skateboards

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Question 20 of 20

20. What is "plonk"? Hint

Gambling chips

Cheap wine

Doughnuts

Paper money

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is a "Banana bender"?

Answer: A person from Queensland

Banana Bender is also the name of a company that caters to backpackers with hostel-like accommodations.

2. What is a "Crow eater"?

Answer: A person from South Australia

A reference to this nickname appeared in the "Kilmore Free Press" (Kilmore, Vic.)on Thursday 28 September 1905

3. What is a "damper"?

Answer: Bread made from flour and water

Usually made in the bush and cooked in a camp oven.

4. An "ocker" is Australian slang for what?

Answer: An unsophisticated person

Not used a lot anymore except by the older generations.

5. "Footy" is slang for which sport, in most of Australia?

Answer: Australian Rules Football

This sport has been around a long time. The official rules came about in 1858. A team consists of 18 players. (Queensland and New South Wales use "footy" for the sport of rugby.)

6. What is a "milk bar"?

Answer: Corner shop that sells takeaway food

Basically a general store.

7. What is a "Pommy"?

Answer: An Englishman

Sydney was first settled as a British penal colony in the late 18th century.

8. What is a "yewy"?

Answer: A U-Turn in traffic

"Why don't you chuck a yewy at the next traffic lights?"

9. What is a "bunyip"?

Answer: Mythical outback creature

Aboriginal stories describe the bunyip as an evil spirit which dwells in creeks, swamps, and billabongs.

10. What does the term "tucker" refer to?

Answer: Food

"Tucker-bag" is of course a bag of food.

11. What is a "tinny"?

Answer: A can of beer

Also refers to a small aluminium boat.

12. In Aussie slang, what is "the Coathanger"?

Answer: Sydney Harbour Bridge

This is a reference to its arched shape.

13. What is a "Greenie"?

Answer: An Environmentalist

The United States also uses the same word for an Environmentalist.

14. What is known as a "stickybeak"?

Answer: A nosy person

A stickybeak is a nosy person, who sticks their beak (nose) into other people's affairs.

15. What is a "bludger"?

Answer: A lazy person

It's also somebody who always relies on other people to do things or lend him things.

16. What is a "bingle"?

Answer: A motor vehicle accident

"That was quite a bingle she got into last night."

17. What is a "cozzie"?

Answer: A swimsuit

Also called bathers or togs.

18. What is the term "Sandgroper" mostly used to describe?

Answer: A person from Western Australia

Also a sand-burrowing desert insect.

19. What is a "billabong"?

Answer: A watering hole

From an east coast Aboriginal language meaning "dead water".

20. What is "plonk"?

Answer: Cheap wine

A contemptuous contraction of "vin blanc".

Source: Author slowglass

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