The Great Aussie Quiz: How these places made history

1. Police finally captured notorious bushranger Ned Kelly in June 1880 after a siege at an inn in which Victorian town?

2. The country watched in suspense for almost a fortnight when two miners were trapped (and one was killed) at a mining disaster in which Tasmanian village in April 2006?

3. In August 1872, the Overland Telegraph – considered one of our greatest engineering feats – was finally completed. It linked Darwin with which South Australian locale?

4. Australia’s first large-scale uranium mine began operations in which Northern Territory location in 1954?

5. The Big Pineapple – one of the country’s most endearing “big things” – opened in 1971 in which Queensland town?

6. After the phenomenal success of the Field of Light installation at Uluru, British artist Bruce Munro created a second work, Field of Light: Avenue of Honour, in memory of the thousands of Australian Diggers who left this Western Australian port to serve in the World War I battlefields. Can you name the port?

7. In August 1944, 1,100 Japanese POWs attempted to escape from a prisoner-of-war compound in which NSW country town?

8. Evonne Goolagong Cawley is one of Australia’s greatest ever tennis players, winning the Wimbledon singles title in 1971 and 1980, and accumulating 14 Grand Slam titles over her career. In which NSW country town was she born?

9. Between 1956 and 1963, British nuclear tests were carried out at which remote South Australian location?

10. In 1854, miners in the Victorian goldfields, disgruntled with how the government was administering the fields, set up a stockade at the Eureka diggings, swearing allegiance to the Southern Cross flag. In which Victorian town did this famous Eureka Stockade take place?