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Quiz about Aussie Achievers
Quiz about Aussie Achievers

Aussie Achievers Trivia Quiz


Although many of these Aussies are true blue achievers, some were simply in the right (or wrong) place to achieve their "distinction". I've provided lots of clues to help you achieve well in this quiz!

A multiple-choice quiz by dramatica. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
dramatica
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
363,715
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
512
Last 3 plays: Guest 1 (10/10), Guest 1 (10/10), Bourman (8/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Bob Tarzan T-Marts would have been a nifty name for Australia's best known tyre retailer, but it isn't his name and while he did swing around some hairy bends in his youth he wasn't known as a tree-swinger. What do you think his name is? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Major Michael Mori defended this "hick" adventurer from Adelaide who ended up in Guantanamo Bay on charges of terrorism. He has since written a "goliath" of a book about his adventures, but is not allowed to profit from it. Who is he? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. With three mates, not alone, this entrepreneur set up an advertising agency called SPASM which revolutionised the way Australian retailers sold their products. Who is this "ocker" advertising guru who likes to be called "Singo"? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. This construction giant does not build windmills or tiptoe through the tulips. His local projects cover the Snowy Mountains Scheme, Canberra's new Parliament House, Melbourne's West Gate Bridge and Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Sydney's Entertainment Centre, the rebuilding of Hobart's Tasman Bridge and significant rebuilding of Darwin in 1974 after Cyclone Tracy. Who is he? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. This bad guy had his ears chopped off and turned into a good guy after being released from prison, becoming a popular talk show guest and writer. So, mark my words, leopards can change their spots. Before he died of liver cancer in 2013 he confessed to killing about "four or seven" people. Who is he?
Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. She is Australia's first real life princess, having met her Danish prince at a Sydney pub, the Slip Inn, while he was visiting Australia at the time of the 2000 Summer Olympics. She comes from Tasmania, not Scotland, and while she has a combined commerce and law degree, her given name may indicate that she was destined to pour her energies into her first-born son. What was her maiden name? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. He raised eyebrows by starting his third family with Wendi Deng, 30, at a ripe old age of 68. With Wendi clucking over him, he became "news" himself when he appeared in the "dock" to give "pertinent" evidence in relation to the 2011 telephone hacking exploits of his tabloid empire reporters. Who is this Australian media mogul? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. She wrote a biography of a popular Australian prime minister and then, much to the chagrin of his wife, Hazel, he fell in love with this alluring and talented lady. Eventually they married and became B. and B. Hawke of Northbridge, Sydney. No, they didn't open a bed and breakfast establishment to supplement his parliamentary pension. Who is she? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. She went to England, not Germany, to pursue her career as a feminist academic. She looked at the camera lens through her thighs for "Suck" magazine and her marriage with British carpenter, Paul du Feu, lasted three weeks. She criticised, of all things, the dress sense of Julia Gillard, Australia's first female Prime Minister. Who is she? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. He became Australia's First "Bloke" as the partner of Australia's first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in 2010. Who is this former hairdresser whose father could have been named Mathew, but probably wasn't? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Bob Tarzan T-Marts would have been a nifty name for Australia's best known tyre retailer, but it isn't his name and while he did swing around some hairy bends in his youth he wasn't known as a tree-swinger. What do you think his name is?

Answer: Bob Jane

Born Robert Frederick "Bob" Jane in 1929, this Brunswick (Victoria) entrepreneur started in the 1950s with a company distributing parts for Jaguar and Alfa Romeo which he called Bob Jane Autoland. He also entered competitive car racing and had some impressive wins in the Armstrong 500 (later known as the Bathurst 1000) before an ongoing back problem caused him to retire from competitive motor racing in 1981 and pour all of his energy into expanding his chain of tyre retailers, Bob Jane T-Marts.
2. Major Michael Mori defended this "hick" adventurer from Adelaide who ended up in Guantanamo Bay on charges of terrorism. He has since written a "goliath" of a book about his adventures, but is not allowed to profit from it. Who is he?

Answer: David Hicks

Born 1974 in Adelaide, South Australia, David Matthew Hicks was expelled from high school when he was fourteen and became a drifter, picking up work wherever he could all over Australia. Shortly before travelling to Albania in 1999 and joining the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) he converted to Islam and became known as Muhammed Dawood. On returning to Australia his application to join the Australian Army was rejected.

He then travelled to Pakistan to train with Lashkar-e-Taiba and in December 2001 was captured in Afghanistan by the Northern Alliance and eventually transported to Guantanamo Bay as an enemy combatant.
3. With three mates, not alone, this entrepreneur set up an advertising agency called SPASM which revolutionised the way Australian retailers sold their products. Who is this "ocker" advertising guru who likes to be called "Singo"?

Answer: John Singleton

Born 9 November 1941 in Enfield, New South Wales, "Singo" started SPASM in the late 1960s with Dunc McAllan, Rob Palmer and Mike Strauss and was hugely successful with his larrikin working-class man advertising style. SPASM was sold in 1973 to an American company (Doyle Dane Bernbach) and after a while working for DDB as Managing Director of Australian operations Singleton started up his very own "John Singleton Advertising" in 1985. Since then, he has amassed considerable interests in radio broadcasting and thoroughbred horse breeding and racing.
4. This construction giant does not build windmills or tiptoe through the tulips. His local projects cover the Snowy Mountains Scheme, Canberra's new Parliament House, Melbourne's West Gate Bridge and Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Sydney's Entertainment Centre, the rebuilding of Hobart's Tasman Bridge and significant rebuilding of Darwin in 1974 after Cyclone Tracy. Who is he?

Answer: Sir John Holland

Sir John Holland AC (1914-2009), civil engineer, founded the John Holland Construction Group (later known as John Holland (Holdings) Pty Ltd) in 1949 following active service in World War II. He remained active in the company (now owned by Leighton Holdings Limited) until his death.

Although named Clifton Vaughan Holland, he acquired the nickname "John" when he was young and was always known by that name thereafter. His first client was a Victorian farmer named Malcolm Fraser who would later become the Prime Minister of Australia. From building a shed for Mr Fraser, John Holland went on to build many masterpieces and was knighted in 1973 for services to engineering.

He was also awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 1988 for service to the community.
5. This bad guy had his ears chopped off and turned into a good guy after being released from prison, becoming a popular talk show guest and writer. So, mark my words, leopards can change their spots. Before he died of liver cancer in 2013 he confessed to killing about "four or seven" people. Who is he?

Answer: Mark Chopper Read

Mark Brandon Read (1954-2013), aka Mark Chopper Read, was born in Melbourne, Victoria and was convicted of armed robbery, assault and kidnapping. During his time in prison, his ears were cut off by a fellow inmate and he also contracted hepatitis C. He walked free in 1998 and made a living from writing and being a popular talk show guest.

In 2000 a film based on Chopper's life was made starring Eric Bana as Read. Shortly before dying of liver cancer, Read confessed to the "New York Times" that he had killed "probably about four or seven" people.
6. She is Australia's first real life princess, having met her Danish prince at a Sydney pub, the Slip Inn, while he was visiting Australia at the time of the 2000 Summer Olympics. She comes from Tasmania, not Scotland, and while she has a combined commerce and law degree, her given name may indicate that she was destined to pour her energies into her first-born son. What was her maiden name?

Answer: Mary Donaldson

Mary Elizabeth Donaldson was born in 1972 in Hobart and she obtained a combined degree in Commerce and Law (BCom, LLB) from the University of Tasmania in 1995. Mary and Frederik met at the Slip Inn, a Sydney pub, during the prince's visit at the time of the 2000 Summer Olympics.

At that time Mary was sales director for Belle Property, an estate agency specialising in luxury property. Their engagement was announced in 2003 and they were married in 2004. Her marriage to Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark conferred upon her the title Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat, RE.

They have four children, the first of whom, Prince Christian Valdemar Henri John, born 15 October 2005, is the heir apparent to the throne of Denmark.
7. He raised eyebrows by starting his third family with Wendi Deng, 30, at a ripe old age of 68. With Wendi clucking over him, he became "news" himself when he appeared in the "dock" to give "pertinent" evidence in relation to the 2011 telephone hacking exploits of his tabloid empire reporters. Who is this Australian media mogul?

Answer: Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch was born in 1931 in Melbourne, Australia, and chose to be known as Rupert (after his maternal grandfather). Educated at Oxford, he inherited the family business, News Limited, on the death of his father in 1952. Its main asset at that time was the "Adelaide News", but under Rupert's direction the family business grew by 2000 into a massive global media empire with a net worth of over $5 billion. Rupert became a naturalised US citizen in 1985 and it was there that he met and married Wendi Deng, his third wife, in 1990. Rupert was 23 years older than his first wife, Patricia, and 38 years older than Wendi. Following News Corporation's phone hacking scandals of 2011, as well as bribery and corruption investigations, Rupert resigned as director of News International in 2012 and filed for divorce in 2013.
8. She wrote a biography of a popular Australian prime minister and then, much to the chagrin of his wife, Hazel, he fell in love with this alluring and talented lady. Eventually they married and became B. and B. Hawke of Northbridge, Sydney. No, they didn't open a bed and breakfast establishment to supplement his parliamentary pension. Who is she?

Answer: Blanche d'Alpuget

Hazel Hawke had tolerated her husband's relationship with Blanche d'Alpuget whilst he was Prime Minister (it was one of many in his nine years as Prime Minister of Australia), but things changed after 1991. In that year, Paul Keating successfully challenged Bob's leadership and the great man stepped down as Prime Minister and sat on the backbenches before precipitating a by-election with his resignation from Parliament entirely on 20 February 1992. Hazel and Bob divorced in 1995 and he married Blanche shortly afterwards.
9. She went to England, not Germany, to pursue her career as a feminist academic. She looked at the camera lens through her thighs for "Suck" magazine and her marriage with British carpenter, Paul du Feu, lasted three weeks. She criticised, of all things, the dress sense of Julia Gillard, Australia's first female Prime Minister. Who is she?

Answer: Germaine Greer

Born in Melbourne in 1939, Germaine Greer was educated at a private convent school and gained a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. As an academic and journalist she gained global fame for writing the "The Female Eunuch" in 1970. In defining herself as a "liberator" of women, her brand of feminism has very little to do with equal pay and opportunity.

In 1999 she wrote "The Whole Woman", a sequel to her 1970 best-seller, and concluded that the feminist movement had put women into double jeopardy and caused them much suffering by achieving nothing more than fake equality. What's needed, according to Greer, is true liberation.

Hence her passion for polemics.
10. He became Australia's First "Bloke" as the partner of Australia's first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in 2010. Who is this former hairdresser whose father could have been named Mathew, but probably wasn't?

Answer: Tim Mathieson

Timothy Raymond Mathieson was born in 1957 in Shepparton, Victoria. He trained as a hairdresser and operated various salons before meeting Julia Gillard in 2004 at a Melbourne salon called Heading Out. At that time, Tim was a divorcé with three adult children.

He first gained public scrutiny in 2006 when Julia became Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party, and then global scrutiny in 2010 when she became Australia's first female Prime Minister (and he became Australia's First "Bloke").
Source: Author dramatica

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