Welcome to the ultimate Australian Trivia Game, where fun meets learning in an engaging experience that’s perfect for everyone! This multi-choice trivia game is designed to bring people together as they learn all about Aussie culture.
From iconic traditions to unique local knowledge, the game is filled with questions that will challenge you and your friends' minds while offering plenty of surprises along the way. Whether you’re a trivia enthusiast, a curious learner, or simply looking for an entertaining way to connect with friends and family, this game has something for everyone.
We have designed this Aussie trivia game to strike a balance to be perfect for all people and all ages. This makes it a great choice for parties, family gatherings, or even a quiet evening at home.
How To Play
1 - Someone is the designated host, where they scroll down and ask a question one at a time allowing contestants time to think. As host, you will introduce each category as you get to it. “Let’s get started! The first category is Geography”. Each category contains 6 questions, all multiple choice.
2 - Total of 10 categories with 6 each totaling 60 questions. We advise you to go down one category at a time and at the end of a category, tally up the answers. This makes it easier to keep track as you go.
3 - There are 3 different ways to play:
i) - Have all contestants have a piece of paper and pencil/pen and write their answers. Once you have read all the questions out, go back to the top and read out the answers as they tally up their own scores.
ii) - You as host can keep track of all contestants' scores, giving the answer after each question and updating scores as you go.
iii) - Don’t worry about it! Just read them out and learn as you go, keep it casual and see where the conversations go after each question. Categories 1. Geography
2. History
3. Wildlife
3. Natural Landmarks
5. Sport
5. Pop Culture
6. Indigenous
7. Famous Australians
8. Aussie Slang
9. Iconic Places
10. Aussie Customs
Are you ready? - Here are the questions (and answers) so don’t let anyone peek!
1. Geography
Q1. Which river forms part of the border between New South Wales and Victoria?
a) Darling River
b) Murray River
c) Murrumbidgee River
Answer: b) Murray River
Q2. What is the largest island in the Bass Strait?
a) King Island
b) Flinders Island
c) Norfolk Island
Answer: b) Flinders Island
Q3. How long does The Great Dividing Range stretch?
a) 2,600 km
b) 3,200 km
c) 3,500 km
Answer: c) 3,500 km
Q4. Which Australian city is furthest north?
a) Darwin
b) Cairns
c) Townsville
Answer: a) Darwin
Q5. Australia’s only currently active volcano is located on which Australian territory?
a) Tiwi Islands
b) Heard Island and McDonald Islands
c) Christmas Island
Answer: b) Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Q6. Which Australian state contains the country’s highest mountain?
a) Victoria
b) New South Wales
c) Tasmania
Answer: b) New South Wales (Mount Kosciuszko)
2. History
Q1. Who was the first European to land on Australia?
a) James Cook
b) Willem Janszoon
c) Matthew Flinders
Answer: b) Willem Janszoon, Dutch navigator (1606)
Q2. Which was Australia’s strongest recorded cyclone?
a) Cyclone Mahina (1899)
b) Cyclone Tracy (1974)
c) Cyclone Monica (2006)
Answer: a) Cyclone Mahina (1899)
Q3. In what year did Australia become a Federation?
a) 1901
b) 1911
c) 1891
Answer: a) 1901
Q4. Which Australian Prime Minister disappeared while swimming in 1967?
a) Harold Holt
b) Robert Menzies
c) Gough Whitlam
Answer: a) Harold Holt
Q5. The Eureka Stockade, a famous miners’ rebellion, took place in which city?
a) Ballarat
b) Bendigo
c) Kalgoorlie
Answer: a) Ballarat
Q6. In which year did John McDouall Stuart complete the first successful crossing from south to north across the Australian continent?
a) 1858
b) 1862
c) 1867
Answer: b) 1862
3. Wildlife
Q1. Which rare egg-laying mammal appears on the Australian 5 cent coin?
a) Platypus
b) Echidna
c) Bilby
Answer: b) Echidna
Q2. On average, how many fatal shark attacks occur in Australia each year?
a) About 1
b) About 5
c) About 10
Answer: a) About 1
Q3. The numbat, an endangered marsupial, is native to which Australian state?
a) Western Australia
b) South Australia
c) Victoria
Answer: a) Western Australia
Q4. Which spider has killed more people in Australia?
a) Sydney funnel-web spider
b) Redback spider
c) White-tailed spider
Answer: b) Redback spider
(Contentious answer due to record keeping: sources state approx 14 deaths for redback vs 13 for funnel-web)
Q5. Which Australian state has the highest population of saltwater crocodiles?
a) Queensland
b) Western Australia
c) Northern Territory
Answer: c) Northern Territory
Q6. How many deadly snakes are there in Australia (species with venom considered life-threatening to humans)?
a) About 10
b) About 15
c) Over 20
Answer: c) Over 20
3. Natural Landmarks
Q1. What is Australia’s largest non-desert national park by area?
a) Kakadu National Park
b) Kosciuszko National Park
c) Alpine National Park
Answer: a) Kakadu National Park
Q2. Which Australian island is the world’s largest sand island and a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
a) Kangaroo Island
b) Fraser Island
c) Rottnest Island
Answer: b) Fraser Island
Q3. Which inhabited Australian island is the furthest from the mainland?
a) Norfolk Island
b) Cocos Islands
c) Christmas Island
Answer: b) Cocos Islands (approximately 2,150 km from the mainland)
Q4. What is Australia’s largest “monocline” rock formation and the largest in the world?
a) Uluru, Ayers Rock, Northern Territory
b) Kata Tjuta, Mount Olga, Northern Territory
c) Burringurrah, Mount Augustus, Western Australia
Answer: c) Burringurrah, Mount Augustus, Western Australia (Uluru is a monolith)
Q5. Which Queensland site contains the world’s oldest continuously surviving tropical rainforest?
a) Daintree Rainforest
b) Lamington National Park
c) Gondwana Rainforests
Answer: a) Daintree Rainforest
Q6. What remote Tasmanian island is famous for its rugged scenery, wildlife, and being Australia’s southernmost national park?
a) Maria Island
b) Bruny Island
c) Macquarie Island
Answer: c) Macquarie Island
5. Sport
Q1. Which Australian city hosted the first Commonwealth Games held in Australia?
a) Sydney
b) Melbourne
c) Brisbane
Answer: a) Sydney (1938, then the British Empire Games)
Q2. Which Australian tennis player became the first to achieve a calendar Grand Slam (winning all four majors in a single year)?
a) Margaret Court
b) Lleyton Hewitt
c) Rod Laver
Answer: c) Rod Laver
Q3. Which Australian athlete has won the most Olympic gold medals?
a) Ian Thorpe
b) Emma McKeon
c) Dawn Fraser
Answer: b) Emma McKeon
Q4. What is the highest attendance of an AFL/VFL Grand Final?
a) Richmond v Carlton, MCG, 1969
b) Collingwood v Carlton, MCG, 1970
c) St Kilda v Hawthorn, MCG, 1971
Answer: b) Collingwood v Carlton, MCG, 1970 (Attendance: 121,696)
Q5. What is the nickname for the Australian men’s field hockey team?
a) The Wallabies
b) The Boomers
c) The Kookaburras
Answer: a) The Kookaburras
Q6. Cathy Freeman won Olympic gold in which event at Sydney 2000?
a) 200 metres
b) 400 metres
c) 800 metres
Answer: b) 400 metres
5. Pop Culture
Q1. Which Australian movie is famous for the line, “That’s going straight to the pool room!”?
a) The Castle
b) Muriel’s Wedding
c) Crocodile Dundee
Answer: a) The Castle
Q2. Which Australian band released the hit song “Down Under ” in the 1980s?
a) Hoodoo Gurus
b) Men at Work
c) Midnight Oil
Answer: b) Men at Work
Q3. In which year did Australian soap opera “Neighbours” first air on TV?
a) 1985
b) 1987
c) 1990
Answer: a) 1985
Q4. Which Australian actor played Wolverine in the X-Men film series?
a) Sam Worthington
b) Hugh Jackman
c) Russell Crowe
Answer: b) Hugh Jackman
Q5. Which Australian musician was the lead singer of INXS?
a) Nick Cave
b) Peter Garrett
c) Michael Hutchence
Answer: a) Michael Hutchence
Q6. Which trilogy series filmed entirely in Australia is actor Mel Gibson known for?
a) The Lord of the Rings
b) Mad Max
c) Lethal Weapon
Answer: b) Mad Max
6. Indigenous
Q1. Which Australian animal is considered a totem for many First Nations groups and is featured in countless Dreaming stories?
a) Kangaroo
b) Platypus
c) Snake
Answer: a) Kangaroo
Q2. What is the meaning of “The Dreaming” (or “Dreamtime”) in Aboriginal cultures?
a) A period of night-time rest
b) The period of creation
c) The end of the wet season
Answer: b) The period of creation
Q3. How old are the oldest known Aboriginal rock art sites, making them some of the oldest continuous artworks in the world?
a) Around 10,000 years
b) Around 20,000 years
b) Over 40,000 years
Answer: b) Around 20,000 years
Q4. What is the estimated number of Aboriginal people who lived in Australia before European colonisation?
a) Between 50,000 and 100,000
b) Between 100,000 and 500,000
c) Between 500,000 and 1 million
Answer: b) Between 500,000 and 1 million
Q5. Approximately how many Aboriginal languages were spoken across Australia before European settlement?
a) Around 25
b) Around 250
c) Over 400
Answer: b) Around 250
Q6. What type of animal is the well-known Aboriginal snack called the “witchetty grub”?
a) Moth larva
b) White tree caterpillar
c) Large earthworm
Answer: a) Moth larva
7. Famous Australians
Q1. Who was the first Australian Prime Minister?
a) Alfred Deakin
b) Edmund Barton
c) Billy Hughes
Answer: b) Edmund Barton
Q2. What is Australian scientist Howard Florey best known for?
a) Developing penicillin as an antibiotic
b) Inventing Wi-Fi
c) Discovering insulin
Answer: a) Developing penicillin as an antibiotic
Q3. Which Australian actor played Crocodile Dundee in the iconic film series?
a) Paul Hogan
b) Hugo Weaving
c) Geoffrey Rush
Answer: a) Paul Hogan
Q4. Which Australian broadcasting family founded the influential “Australian Women’s Weekly” magazine?
a) The Murdochs
b) The Packers
c) The Fairfaxes
Answer: b) The Packers
Q5. Who was the first Australian to travel to space?
a) Andy Thomas
b) Paul Scully-Power
c) Jessica Meir
Answer: b) Paul Scully-Power
Q6. Who was the first Aboriginal Australian elected to the Australian Parliament?
a) Ken Wyatt
b) Aden Ridgeway
c) Neville Bonner
Answer: c) Neville Bonner
8. Aussie Slang
Q1. In Australian slang, what does it mean if someone is “cactus”?
a) They are lost
b) They are broken/finished
c) They are angry
Answer: b) Broken/finished
Q2. What is a “dag” in Aussie slang?
a) An unfashionable but funny person
b) A city slicker
c) A workaholic
Answer: a) An unfashionable but funny person
Q3. In rural Australia, what is a “jackaroo”?
a) A young male farmhand
b) A sheepdog
c) A rodeo clown
Answer: a) A young male farmhand
Q4. What does “stoked” mean in Australian English?
a) Frightened
b) Tired
c) Excited
Answer: c) Excited
Q5. What is a “drongo”?
a) A show-off
b) A fool
c) A crook
Answer: b) A fool
Q6. “Tinny” is slang for which of the following?
a) A small boat
b) A can of beer
c) Both
Answer: c) Both
9. Iconic Places
Q1. The town of Coober Pedy is famous for what?
a) Dinosaur fossils
b) Opal mining and underground homes
c) Australia’s largest lake
Answer: b) Opal mining and underground homes
Q2. Which Australian city is known as the “City of Churches”?
a) Melbourne
b) Hobart
c) Adelaide
Answer: c) Adelaide
Q3. How long is the famous Overland Telegraph Line that connects Darwin to Adelaide?
a) 2,955 km
b) 3,178 km
c) 3,238 km
Answer: b) 3,178 km
Q4. Which town is famous for its “Big Banana” roadside attraction?
a) Bundaberg
b) Coffs Harbour
c) Ballina
Answer: b) Coffs Harbour
Q5. Which Australian island is famous for its colony of fairy (little) penguins?
a) Phillip Island
b) Kangaroo Island
c) Bruny Island
Answer: a) Phillip Island
Q6. The Twelve Apostles rock formations are found along which scenic road?
a) Stuart Highway
b) Eyre Highway
c) Great Ocean Road
Answer: c) Great Ocean Road
10. Aussie Customs
Q1. The “Democracy Sausage” is most closely associated with what event?
a) Federal elections
b) Australia Day
c) Christmas
Answer: a) Federal elections
Q2. What is a “swag” in traditional Australian culture?
a) An outback bedroll
b) A type of hat
c) A campfire meal
Answer: a) An outback bedroll
Q3. Which annual event is sometimes called “The Race That Stops a Nation”?
a) Bathurst 1000
b) Melbourne Cup
c) Sydney to Hobart
Answer: b) Melbourne Cup
Q4. Which Australian city is famous for its “Moomba” festival?
a) Melbourne
b) Adelaide
c) Perth
Answer: a) Melbourne
Q5. Which meat is most commonly used in a traditional Australian “pie floater”?
a) Lamb
b) Beef
c) Kangaroo
Answer: b) Beef
Q6. What is the significance of 11:00 am on the 11th of November in Australia?
a) The start of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
b) The official opening of the Melbourne Cup carnival
c) The moment to observe a minute of silence for Remembrance Day
Answer: c) The moment to observe a minute of silence for Remembrance Day
Tally up the scores!
Pro Tips
30/60 = You ain't from round ere' are ya 40/60 = You kinda know what's up 50/60 = True blue Aussie at heart
Anyone under 20/60 does a 'shoey' 🤣