NRMjobs Quiz answers 27-May-2021

This week’s theme: ‘Seconds’

(1) What is the second highest mountain in Australia?

Answer: Mount Townsend (NSW)

(2) What is Australia’s second largest State or Territory?

Answer: Queensland.

(3) What, after Tasmania, is Australia’s second largest island? (bonus: what is the 3rd largest?).

Answer: Melville Island, NT (bonus: Kangaroo Island, SA).

(4) What is the second full moon in a month called?

Answer: Blue moon.

(5) What is Australia’s second oldest national park?

Answer: Belair National Park, SA.

NRMjobs Quiz answers 20-May-2021

This week’s theme: ‘Body parts’

(1) What is a chela?

Answer: A pincer or nipper (such as on a crab or crayfish).

(2) What is the bag-shaped body (containing hearts and other organs) of an octopus called? (bonus: how many hearts does an octopus have?).

Answer: Mantle (bonus: three).

(3) What is a clitellum?

Answer: The saddle-like ring (usually light coloured) on the body of worms and leeches.

(4) On what kind of animal will you find coverts?

Answer: A bird.

(5) What is a pizzle? (bonus: what used to be made out of pizzles).

Answer: Penis, especially of a bull (bonus: whips).

NRMjobs Quiz answers 13-May-2021

This week’s theme: ‘Hills’

(1) What is the highest mountain in Victoria?

Answer: Mount Bogong.

(2) Which multi-national corporation originally took its name from the NSW city of Broken Hill?

Answer: BHP.

(3) All of Western Australia’s 20 highest peaks are in what mountain range? (bonus: What is the highest peak in WA?)

Answer: Hammersley Range (bonus: Mount Meharry).

(4) What iconic Australian product was first manufactured by Lance Hill in an Adelaide backyard in 1945?

Answer: Hills Hoist.

(5) Blue Hills ran from February 1949 until September 1976. What was it?

Answer: ABC Radio serial.

NRMjobs Quiz answers 6-May-2021

This week’s theme: ‘Glow’

(1) What word means the biochemical emission of light by living organisms?

Answer: Bioluminescence.

(2) In October 2020 scientists made the surprise discovery that platypuses glow green under ultraviolet light. Where was the discovery made?

Answer: United States (from specimens in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois and the University of Nebraska State Museum).

(3) The insect genus Arachnocampa, endemic to Australia and New Zealand, consists of nine species of fungus gnats. What are their larvae commonly known as?

Answer: Glow worms.

(4) The Southern Lights (Aurora Australis) are visible from which four countries? (one point each).

Answer: Australia, New Zealand, Chile and Argentina.

(5) Omphalotus nidiformis, a white, gilled mushroom species found in southern Australia, is famous for glowing in the night. What is its common name?

Answer: Ghost fungus.