NRMjobs Quiz answers 26-Nov-2020

This week’s theme: ‘Tracks’

(1) Who is the author of the popular book Tracks, Scats and Other Traces - A Field Guide to Australian Mammals?

Answer: Barbara Triggs.

(2) The last Federal Budget (5 October, 2020) confirmed funding to bitumenise an iconic, 472-kilometre outback road. What is the name of the road?

Answer: The Strzelecki Track.

(3) Complete the line: “There’s a track winding back to an old fashioned shack along the road to …”

Answer: Gundagai.

(4) The fossilised footprints of what extinct creature can be found on a lakebed near Camperdown in South West Victoria?

Answer: Diprotodon.

(5) The Trans-Australian Railway from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta includes the longest straight section of train track in the world. The total length without a curve is (a) 258km (b) 368km (c) 478km (d) 588km (e) 698km?

Answer: (c) 478km.

NRMjobs Quiz answers 19-Nov-2020

This week’s theme: ‘Mollusca’

(1) Which of the following is not a mollusc?: (a) Garden snail (b) Oyster (c) Cuttlefish (d) Octopus (e) Earthworm.

Answer: (e) Earthworm.

(2) What hard-shelled, edible mollusc – common in coastal south eastern Australia – shares a common name with a purple-flowering, invasive weed of south eastern Australia?

Answer: Periwinkle.

(3) What invasive marine bivalve mollusc was discovered infesting several marinas in Darwin Harbour in 1999, and was successfully eradicated?

Answer: Black striped mussel (Mytilopsis sallei).

(4) What inhabitant of the Great Barrier Reef (and elsewhere) is the world’s largest living bivalve mollusc, growing to more than 200kg.

Answer: Giant clam (Tridacna species).

(5) Australia’s largest native land slug, Triboniophorus graeffi, is found along the coast in NSW and Queensland. It takes its common name from a distinctive marking. What is it commonly called?

Answer: Red triangle slug.

NRMjobs Quiz answers 12-Nov-2020

This week’s theme: ‘Camels’

(1) How many humps does an Australian feral camel have?

Answer: One.

(2) Australia’s first camel, named Harry, arrived in Port Adelaide in 1840. What event in 1846 made Harry infamous?

Answer: The camel shot and fatally wounded pastoralist and explorer John Horrocks.

(3) Believed to have been introduced in the packing of camel saddles, what succulent, multi-stemmed, weed - with heart-shaped leaves and conspicuous red fruit - grows prolifically in arid areas of Australia?

Answer: Rosy dock / wild hops (Acetosa vesicaria / Rumex vesicarius).

(4) The first mosque in Australia was constructed by Muslim cameleers, possibly as early as 1861. Where was it located?

Answer: Marree, South Australia.

(5) True or false?: Saudi Arabia imports live camels from Australia.

Answer: True.

NRMjobs Quiz answers 5-Nov-2020

This week’s theme: ‘Red gum’

(1) Eucalyptus camaldulensis was first formally described as a species in 1832, and was named after the garden in which the type specimen grew. Where was the garden?

Answer: Naples, Italy (L'Hortus Camaldulensis di Napoli).

(2) Australia’s largest remnant stand of river red gum is the 65,000ha Barma-Millewa Forest on the Victorian-NSW border. Approximately how long ago did this forest form? (a) 25,000 years (b) 250,000 years (c) 2.5 million years (d) 25 million years.

Answer: (a) 25,000 years.

(3) ‘I Was Only 19’, released in 1983, was a chart-topping single for the Australian folk band Redgum. What was the band’s second highest charting single?

Answer: ‘I’ve Been to Bali Too’ (1984).

(4) Eucalyptus camaldulensis has several sub-species, and occurs naturally in all States and Territories except one. Which one?

Answer: Tasmania.

(5) What famous, heritage-listed red gum in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens was twice ringbarked by vandals, in 2010 and again in 2013, and has subsequently died?

Answer: The Separation Tree (which marked the site where Victorians gathered in 1850 to celebrate the separation of their colony from NSW).