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.
1 comment:
Shame about the Strzelecki track
P.S. Loving the quizzes
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