Wednesday, September 30, 2020

NRMjobs Quiz answers 01-Oct-2020

This week’s theme: ‘Ramsar'

(1) The Ramsar Convention is an international treaty to protect wetlands of global importance. What does ‘Ramsar’ stand for?

Answer: Ramsar is the name of the city in Iran where the treaty was first signed in 1971.

(2) With an area of more than two million hectares, what ephemeral lake system is Australia’s largest Ramsar site?

Answer: Coongie Lakes, in the Lake Eyre Basin.

(3) Jock’s Lagoon is the smallest Ramsar site in Australia, covering just 18 hectares. Where is it?

Answer: North East Tasmania.

(4) Australia has the third most Ramsar sites of any country in the world - 65 in all. Which country has the most? Which has the second most? (one point each).

Answer: United Kingdom (170 sites) and Mexico (142 sites).

(5) In 1974, Australia was the first country in the world to designate a ‘Wetland of International Importance’ under the Ramsar Convention. What was the wetland?

Answer: Coburg Peninsula, Northern Territory.


Wednesday, September 23, 2020

NRMjobs Quiz answers 24-Sep-2020

This week’s theme: ‘Colours’

(1) A major tourist drawcard of the Murray-Sunset National Park, near Mildura, are the famed … Lakes.

Answer: Pink.

(2) The small freshwater fish Mogurnda adspersa is known commonly as the Southern …-… gudgeon.

Answer: Purple-spotted.

(3) A disease discovered in SA in the 1970s which kills eucalypyts and other native plants is known as Mundulla …?

Answer: Yellows.

(4) The fruiting body of the exotic Amanita muscaria fungus is … with … spots.

Answer: Red with white spots.

(5) What colour is the Very Hungry Caterpillar?

Answer: Green (with an orange head).

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

NRMjobs Quiz answers 17-Sep-2020

This week’s theme: ‘Marsupitoons’

(1) What is the name of the bettong who appears as an occasional character in The Guardian’s ‘First Dog on the Moon’ cartoon? (bonus: what is the name of the bandicoot character?).

Answer: Fiona the Unemployed Bettong / aka Fiona the Precariously Employed Bettong (bonus: The ABC Interpretive Dance Bandicoot)

(2) What frenetic marsupial made his official debut in a short 1954 Warner Brothers cartoon, which also featured Bugs Bunny?

Answer: Taz, the Tasmanian devil.

(3) What best-selling video game franchise begins on a beach the fictitious Wumpa Islands, an archipelago south east of Australia? (bonus: what is the name of the beach?)

Answer: Crash Bandicoot (bonus: N. Sanity Beach).

(4) In the Magic Pudding, what is the name of Bunyip Bluegum’s be-whiskered uncle?

Answer: Uncle Wattleberry.

(5) What 1990s US animated TV series starred an immigrant wallaby as the main character, whose sidekicks were Heifer, Filbert and Spunky?

Answer: Rocko’s Modern Life.

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

NRMjobs Quiz answers 9-Sep-2020

This week’s theme: ‘Extinct’


(1) What small, central Australian mammal – last collected in 1933 and now presumed extinct –built large nests up to three metres long?

 

Answer: Lesser Stick-nest Rat (Leporillus apicalis).

 

(2) In 2019 a native Queensland mouse, the Bramble Cay melomys (Melomys rubicola) was formally declared to be extinct. Why did this extinction make world headlines?

 

Answer: It was believed to be the first mammal extinction caused by anthropogenic climate change.

 

(3) By 1855, three island sub-species of emus had been extinguished in southern Australia. What islands did they inhabit? (one point each).

 

Answer: King Island, Kangaroo Island & Tasmania.

 

(4) What dainty, kitten-sized, spindly-legged marsupial which formerly inhabited inland deserts in central and west Australia, was last reported in the 1950s, and is now known only from 29 museum specimens?

 

Answer: Pig-footed bandicoot (Chaeropus sp.)

 

(5) According to the EPBC Act List of Threatened Flora, how many plants have become extinct in Australia since 1788? (a) 7 (b) 17 (c) 27 (d) 37 (e) 47

 

Answer: (d) 37

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

NRMjobs Quiz answers 3-Sep-2020

This week’s theme: ‘Native conifers’


(1) What extraordinarily long-lived Australian conifer is the only member of the Lagarostrobos genus?

 

Answer: Huon pine (Lagarostrobos franklinii).

 

(2) What critically endangered conifer species occurs within 150km of Sydney, and was unknown to science until 1994?

 

Answer: Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis).

 

(3) Callitris (‘Cyprus pine’) is a southern hemisphere genus, with 13 of the 16 recognised species native to Australia. What country are the other three species native to?

 

Answer: France (New Caledonia).

 

(4) Growing to 45 metres, and occurring naturally only in Queensland, what Araucaria species is famous for its enormous cones and large, edible seeds.

 

Answer: Araucaria bidwillii (Bunya pine).

 

(5) The genus Athrotaxis – which includes Pencil Pines and King Billy Pines – is endemic to what Australian State or Territory?

 

Answer: Tasmania.