Thursday, May 13, 2021

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.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Lance Hill copied the hoist from a design by an earlier Australian inventor whose patent ran out and was not renewed letting Lance to use the key elements of the design. Lance had a brilliant marketing campaign that enabled him to gain his place in Australian history