G.K. Questions - 3

G.K. Questions

QUESTIONS:-

1. What is the common name of Ornithorhynchus anatinus?

2. Who won the British Open women’s squash title a record 16 times?

3. Which Eureka Stockade leader went on to serve as Speaker of the Victorian Parliament?

4. What was the name of the character played by Mel Gibson in Gallipoli?

5. Which former pearling port is the most westerly town in Western Australia?

6. Who became the first Australian of the Year, in 1960?

7. Which opera singer also won the New South Wales golf championship three times?

8. Which Queensland city was known as Elston until 1933?

9. What was the first album to sell more than one million copies in Australia?

10. Who was the first Australian-born governor-general?

ANSWERS:-

1. Platypus

2. Heather McKay

3. Peter Lalor

4.Frank Dunne

5.Denham

6.Sir Macfarlane Burnet

7. Joan Hammond

8. Surfers Paradise

9.‘Whispering’ Jack by John Farnham

10.Isaac Isaacs