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1. Almost everyone has seen the Sydney Opera House, or at least seen a picture of it. It sits on a small portion of the CBD named Bennelong Point, and was opened by the Queen in 1973. What was on the Point immediately prior the Opera House?
2. There are many suburbs named after Aboriginal words, that may or may not have relevance to the location. Allawah, for instance, means 'stay here', which sounds more like an advertisement for a hotel than the name of a place! Some names are a bit more descriptive- Woollahra means 'meeting ground', Maroubra means 'like thunder', referring to the surf beach, and Cronulla means 'place of the pink seashells'.
Which of these names means 'the place where the eels lie down'?
3. Tom Ugly's Bridge has many different theories as to why it is named that way, but not one of the theories relate to an ugly man named Tom. I am not going to test your linguistic acrobatics with the origin of the name, but instead I will ask for which suburbs the bridge is in. Do you know?
4. Sydney has over 600 suburbs, so there is bound to be some confusion with similar sounding names. Can you pick the phoney names out of these groups?
5. Some suburbs share their names with towns or suburbs in other states. A prime example of this is Richmond- one in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Tasmania and TWO in Queensland.
Which of these groups of Sydney suburbs share names with other locations?
6. I am sitting on a platform at a major Sydney railway station. I can hear announcements being made for trains on the Inner West, Western, Southern, Northern, Blue Mountains, Newcastle and Central Coast lines. All interstate trains pass through this station, too. I am NOT at Central Station, so where am I?
7. If I was driving from Bankstown to Campbelltown, which of these large suburbs would I pass closest to?
8. Which suburb sells itself as 'seven miles from Sydney, and a thousand miles from care'?
9. At one stage there were about fifteen of these entertainment complexes in Sydney, however when Bass Hill closed in 2007, the last of them was located at Blacktown. What sort of place am I talking about?
10. Sydney is surrounded by National Parks on three sides. To the south, there is the Royal National Park, to the west we find Blue Mountains National Park. What is the major park to the north of the city? It stretches from Asquith to Brooklyn, and east to Church Point.
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