20 Answers
To Ease Your Thinking.
For 1 Point Each:
A1. The Murrumbidgee River. (1 point.)
A2. Yes. New Zealand is about as far South as the Ring of Fire goes in the West, Chile in the East. (1
point.)
A3. Cu. From the Latin: Cuprum. Its atomic number is 29. (1 point.)
A4. The Eyre Highway or Highway 1. (1 point.)
A5. Prince’s Bridge. Originally a wooden toll bridge in 1840. A stone bridge opened in 1851 then known
as Lennox’s Bridge. In 1886/8 the new Princes Bridge replaced it, then reinforced in 1924. (1 point.)
A6. Purnululu National Park. (1 point.)
A7. 20 cents. (1 point.)
A8. Antarctica. 14,000,000 square kilometres. The Sahara Desert is the second largest, 9,000,000 square
kilometres. (1 point.)
A9. 10 vehicles, Subject to the Trip Leader’s discretion. Bylaw 2, Activity Limits; and, Four Wheel
Driving-Adventure Activity Standard 3.10 Group Size. Larger groups should be split with their own
leader. (1 point.)
For 2 Points Each:
A10. 1984. (2 points, 1 point for the decade and 1 point for the year.)
A11. Melbourne. (2 points.)
A12. Valma. Nee Fuller. (2 points.)
A13. Zooplankton is an animal. Phytoplankton is a plant. Phytoplankton is the chief food source for
Zooplankton! (2 points.)
A14. Fungi. Including fungal diseases of plants. (2 points.)
For 3 Points Each:
A15. Enhanced Four-wheel-drive Suspension. (3 points, 1 point for each correct word.)
A16. Taylor, Jones and Mollenhauer. The initials of the three company founders from 1973. (3 points, 1
point for each correct word.)
A17. Having no definite or clear shape or form. (Webster). Amorphous solar blankets are flexible. (3
points.)
A18. Rainfall. An ombrometer is a rain gauge. (3 points.)
A19. 1 st of November 1945. (3 points, 1 point for the day of the month, 1 point for the month and 1 point
for the year.)
For 6 Points:
A20. Cameron Corner, SA-NSW-QLD; Haddon Corner, SA-QLD; Poeppel Corner, QLD-NT-SA; Surveyor
General’s Corner, WA-SA-NT and officially named in 2008, MacCabe corner, VIC-NSW-SA. (6 points, 1
point for each corner and 1 bonus point for all 5 correct.)
How did you go? Are you a genius? Does your hat still fit or fall down over your eyes?
With thanks to Brian Hay #1497