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    AusQuiz

    Aug 30, 2021 3 minutes

    Questions

    1 The Burnett salmon and barramunda are common names for what creature?

    2 In which state or territory is there a Mt Despair, a Mt Abrupt and a Mt Difficult?

    3 A Tjurunga, also spelt Churinga and Tjuringa, is an object of religious significance for which Central Australian Aboriginal people?

    4 Which adventurer re-enacted the survival journeys of Douglas Mawson and Ernest Shackleton, two of the harshest and most extreme Antarctic adventures?

    5 What is the official flower of Western Australia?

    6 Near which major city

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