Australian History Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which 1996 mass shooting at a Tasmanian historic site led John Howard's new government to bring in sweeping national gun laws within weeks?

Question 2

Which prime minister, founder and leader of the Liberal Party, held office from 1949 to 1966, longer than anyone else in Australian history?

Question 3

What did the six former colonies become on Federation in 1901?

Question 4

How many ships made up the First Fleet that sailed from Portsmouth in 1787?

Question 5

Which five-time New South Wales premier, called the father of federation, urged the colonies to unite in his 1889 Tenterfield Oration?

Question 6

When did the last convict ship arrive, ending transportation to Western Australia and to Australia as a whole?

Question 7

Which 1966 action in a rubber plantation, in which about 108 Australians held off a much larger force, became the best-known Australian battle of the Vietnam War?

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About Australian History

How well do you know the story of Australia? This quiz runs from the deep Aboriginal past and the Dutch and British explorers, through the First Fleet of 1788, the convict era, the exploration and violence of the frontier, the gold rushes and the Eureka Stockade, to Federation in 1901, the White Australia policy, Gallipoli and the world wars, the postwar migration boom, the 1967 referendum, the Whitlam years and the Dismissal, Mabo, and the Apology to the Stolen Generations. One hundred and ten questions in five packs of twenty-two.

Every question is written the way people ask: who led the First Fleet, when did the gold rushes begin, where did Australian troops land in 1915, which High Court case overturned terra nullius, why did Tasman not land. The answer is one of four choices of the same kind, a person, a place, a year, an event or an outcome, and the question never contains it. A short note after each answer gives the date, the people, the causes and the consequences.

The first pack covers the First Nations, the explorers and the First Fleet, to the Rum Rebellion of 1808. The second runs from Governor Macquarie through the convict system, inland exploration, the new colonies and the frontier wars. The third covers gold, Eureka, self-government, the bushrangers and the road to Federation. The fourth covers Federation, the flag and the capital, Gallipoli and the Western Front, the Depression and the Second World War. The fifth covers postwar Australia from the migration boom to the present.

About a fifth of the questions carry a photograph linked to the subject of the question but not showing the answer, a portrait, a monument or a historic scene. Every fact has been checked, and the wording is kept plain and even-handed.