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Average Humanities Trivia: Aussie Lingo | 25 Questions

Aussie lingo, Australian slang or 'strine' as it is sometimes called, is a colourful language. Can you pick the meanings of the Aussie words/sayings in the following multiple choice questions?

A multiple-choice quiz by Engadine. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Engadine

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
98,647

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
18 / 25

Plays
4000

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 25

1. If you're "flat out as a lizard drinking" you are what? Hint

Really thirsty

Really skinny

Really busy

Really tired

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Question 2 of 25

2. If you had "a few roo's loose in the top paddock", what would you be? Hint

Mentally incompetent

Not incompetent

Monetarily incompetent

Morbidly incompetent

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Question 3 of 25

3. What is "aerial ping-pong"? Hint

Beach Volley ball

Table Tennis

Squash

Australian Rules Football

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Question 4 of 25

4. If you're "cactus", you're what? Hint

Dead

Sickly

Itchy

Terrific

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Question 5 of 25

5. If you've got a "bad case of the trots" what is wrong with you? Hint

You've got tinea

You've got to ride a horse

You've got to run everywhere

You've got diarrhoea

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Question 6 of 25

6. If you're "out the back of Bourke", where are you? Hint

In Sydney

A long way from a populated area

In Victoria

Very nearly back home

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Question 7 of 25

7. If you're as useful as "hip pockets on a singlet" how useful are you? Hint

Especially

Very

Not very

Really

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Question 8 of 25

8. You're "like a f*rt in a bottle", means what? Hint

You can't keep still

You have no sense of smell

You smell awful

You can't stop talking

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Question 9 of 25

9. What's a "cackleberry"? Hint

Another name for an egg

Another name for a kiwi fruit

A type of strawberry

A type of olive

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Question 10 of 25

10. If you "come a gutser", what's happened to you? Hint

You've thrown up

You've eaten too much

You've gotten fatter

You've had an accident

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Question 11 of 25

11. What are, colloquially, "after darks"? Hint

Sharks

Parks

Larks

Narks

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Question 12 of 25

12. What would you describe as a "dog's breakfast"? Hint

A real mess

Tasteless food

A lousy breakfast

Dog food

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Question 13 of 25

13. What happens if you "cark it"? Hint

You die

You crash your car

You win a prize

You fix your car

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Question 14 of 25

14. If you "haven't got a brass razoo" what's your situation? Hint

You're sick

You're poor

You've got no idea

You've got no heart

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Question 15 of 25

15. If "you're not within cooee", where are you? Hint

Not inside

In the neighbor's yard

Not far away

Not even close

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Question 16 of 25

16. "Rissole" is a colloquial term for an RSL Club. What do the letters RSL stand for? Hint

Rugby Services League

Retired Sailors League

Returned Services League

Returned Soccer League

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Question 17 of 25

17. If things are "crook in Muswellbrook" what's the situation? Hint

Not bad

Not good

Not easy

Non existent

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Question 18 of 25

18. In Australia, Queensland and New South Wales particularly, what are "Mexicans"? Hint

People from south of the border

People from any overseas country

People from New Zealand

People without a job

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Question 19 of 25

19. If you're as "rough as bags" what are you like? Hint

Ribald, but cute

Cute and/or cuddly

Big and/or beautiful

Rude or ugly

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Question 20 of 25

20. What, in rhyming slang, are your "Warwicks"? Hint

Your next door neighbours

Your legs

Your arms

Your kneecaps

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Question 21 of 25

21. If you're "as crook as Rookwood" what is your physical state? Hint

Very ill

Very ugly

Very old

Very stiff

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Question 22 of 25

22. If someone asked you to "take a butchers at this", what would they want you to do? Hint

Take to something with a butchers knife

Cook something

Slice something up

Take a look at something

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Question 23 of 25

23. If something has gone "walkabout" what has happened to it? Hint

It has disappeared

It has been hijacked

It has been sold

It has been given away

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Question 24 of 25

24. "Don't come the raw prawn with me" means what? Hint

Don't come near me with those prawns

Don't try to give me seafood

Don't try to deceive me

Don't try to feed me raw prawns

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Question 25 of 25

25. What are you doing if you use the "bush telegraph"? Hint

Communicating using sign language

Communicating on the telephone

Communicating by word of mouth

Communicating over the radio

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. If you're "flat out as a lizard drinking" you are what?

Answer: Really busy

You're really busy, working at full capacity, going at top speed if you're flat out as a lizard drinking!

2. If you had "a few roo's loose in the top paddock", what would you be?

Answer: Mentally incompetent

Also "a few bricks short of a load", "not the full quid" and "a sandwich short of a picnic"!

3. What is "aerial ping-pong"?

Answer: Australian Rules Football

Aussie Rules, a very popular form of football played in Australia, is colloquially called aerial ping-pong.

4. If you're "cactus", you're what?

Answer: Dead

You're dead, you're "pushing up daisies", you're "as dead as a doornail" or even "carked it"!

5. If you've got a "bad case of the trots" what is wrong with you?

Answer: You've got diarrhoea

Diarrhoea (or, in some parts of the world, diarrhea) usually makes you run to the toilet, hence, the trots!

6. If you're "out the back of Bourke", where are you?

Answer: A long way from a populated area

Bourke is an inland country town in New South Wales, so, colloqially speaking, if you were out the back of Bourke, you would be in a remote, sparsely populated area of the countryside.

7. If you're as useful as "hip pockets on a singlet" how useful are you?

Answer: Not very

Hip pockets on a singlet would not be very useful, nor would "an ashtray on a motorbike"!

8. You're "like a f*rt in a bottle", means what?

Answer: You can't keep still

Like having "ants in your pants", you can't keep still, especially used to describe over-active children!

9. What's a "cackleberry"?

Answer: Another name for an egg

Hen's, chickens, "cackle" and berries can be ovoid in shape, hence, a cackleberry!

10. If you "come a gutser", what's happened to you?

Answer: You've had an accident

Children often come a gutser off their bikes, skateboards, scooters, big "kids" often do the same off motorbikes, horses etc!

11. What are, colloquially, "after darks"?

Answer: Sharks

Sharks often cruise the beaches at night, hence the rhyming slang, after darks!

12. What would you describe as a "dog's breakfast"?

Answer: A real mess

Yet again, self explanatory really, well, it is if you've ever had a dog, especially a puppy!

13. What happens if you "cark it"?

Answer: You die

You're dead, you're "pushing up daisies", you're "as dead as a doornail" or even "cactus"!

14. If you "haven't got a brass razoo" what's your situation?

Answer: You're poor

You'd be as "poor as a churchmouse", "skint", without any money. A "razoo" is a fictitious coin made of brass, origin unknown.

15. If "you're not within cooee", where are you?

Answer: Not even close

You're not even close, you're far away, like the Kiwi (New Zealand) Test Team (Rugby League): they were not within cooee of beating Australia in the October 2002 Test, well, at least not in the second half!

16. "Rissole" is a colloquial term for an RSL Club. What do the letters RSL stand for?

Answer: Returned Services League

The Returned (&) Services League support service men and women from all the defence forces, past and present and they do a great job as well as being a great social club!

17. If things are "crook in Muswellbrook" what's the situation?

Answer: Not good

Rhyming slang, if things are crook in Muswellbrook (New South Wales) or Tallarook (Victoria), the situation is not good!

18. In Australia, Queensland and New South Wales particularly, what are "Mexicans"?

Answer: People from south of the border

In New South Wales it's a person from Victoria and in Queensland it's a person from Victoria or New South Wales, i.e., south of the border with another state!

19. If you're as "rough as bags" what are you like?

Answer: Rude or ugly

When describing a person as rough as bags you mean they are extremely rough in either manners or looks, either rude or ugly!

20. What, in rhyming slang, are your "Warwicks"?

Answer: Your arms

This is rhyming slang, Warwick Farm is a racecourse in Sydney. Farm rhymes with arm, so, "Warwicks" is the plural, arms! Not in very common usage.

21. If you're "as crook as Rookwood" what is your physical state?

Answer: Very ill

You'd be extremely ill, considering this phrase is a reference to Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney!

22. If someone asked you to "take a butchers at this", what would they want you to do?

Answer: Take a look at something

Butchers is rhyming slang, "butcher's hook", look! Also, "crook", or sick. Another term for take a look is to have a "Captain Cook" at something! Like a number of Aussie slang usages, it has its origins in Cockney rhyming slang.

23. If something has gone "walkabout" what has happened to it?

Answer: It has disappeared

For Aboriginal Australians, a walkabout is a spiritual journey and coming of age. The idea it is disappearing without notice is a misnomer from non-aboriginal employers, who usually refused permission for spiritual time off. Often the employee left anyway.

A walkabout has priority over everything else, to the Aboriginal, but to the employer it was interpreted as leaving without notice, for no reason. The phrase "going walkabout" has therefore come into common usage as referring to something that has disappeared, like the sock that never comes back from the washing, or the remote control for the television!

24. "Don't come the raw prawn with me" means what?

Answer: Don't try to deceive me

Don't try to deceive, delude, or lie to me.

25. What are you doing if you use the "bush telegraph"?

Answer: Communicating by word of mouth

The bush telegraph is way of communicating by spreading information and/or rumour by word of mouth. Also, "bush telegram" and "bush wireless".

Source: Author Engadine

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