🧠 Oceania quiz questions with answers

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1. Which of these animals is the heaviest?

   1. Common wombat
   2. Koala
   3. Dingo
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   Answer: A. Common wombat
   Common wombat (26 kg) · Koala (9 kg) · Dingo (15 kg)

   💡 Wombats are famous for their cube-shaped droppings.

2. What is the capital of Australia?

   1. Melbourne
   2. Canberra
   3. Sydney
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   Answer: B. Canberra

3. Which of these countries has the most people?

   1. Papua New Guinea
   2. Fiji
   3. New Zealand
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   Answer: A. Papua New Guinea
   Papua New Guinea (10.6 million) · Fiji (0.9 million) · New Zealand (5.2 million)

4. Which of these is the highest above sea level?

   1. Milford Sound (Mitre Peak)
   2. Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
   3. Uluru
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   Answer: B. Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
   Milford Sound (Mitre Peak) (1,692 m) · Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park (3,724 m) · Uluru (863 m)

   💡 Aoraki/Mount Cook, 3,724 m tall, is New Zealand's highest mountain.

5. Which of these animals eats only plants?

   1. Platypus
   2. Tasmanian devil
   3. Red kangaroo
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   Answer: C. Red kangaroo

   💡 The kangaroo appears on Australia's coat of arms alongside the emu.

6. Which of these is a legend that has never been proven to exist?

   1. Yowie
   2. North Island brown kiwi
   3. Saltwater crocodile
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   Answer: A. Yowie

   💡 In the mid-1970s a reward of 200,000 Australian dollars was offered for a captured yowie, and no one has ever claimed it.

7. Which of these covers the largest area?

   1. Tongariro National Park
   2. Great Barrier Reef
   3. Kakadu National Park
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   Answer: B. Great Barrier Reef
   Tongariro National Park (796 km²) · Great Barrier Reef (344,000 km²) · Kakadu National Park (19,800 km²)

   💡 It is made up of about 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands.

8. Sydney Opera House: which country is it in?

   1. Solomon Islands
   2. Australia
   3. Vanuatu
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   Answer: B. Australia

   💡 Danish architect Jørn Utzon won the design competition in 1957.

9. Which of these is a legend that has never been proven to exist?

   1. Bunyip
   2. Black swan
   3. Quokka
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   Answer: A. Bunyip

   💡 In Aboriginal Australian stories, the bunyip lurks in swamps, creeks and waterholes called billabongs.

10. Which of these animals is native to Asia?

    1. Southern cassowary
    2. Laughing kookaburra
    3. Sarus crane
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    Answer: C. Sarus crane

    💡 Standing up to about 1.8 m tall, it is the tallest bird that can fly.

11. Which of these structures is the tallest?

    1. Nan Madol
    2. Sydney Harbour Bridge
    3. Parliament House, Canberra
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    Answer: B. Sydney Harbour Bridge
    Nan Madol (7.5 m) · Sydney Harbour Bridge (134 m) · Parliament House, Canberra (81 m)

    💡 Its steel arch spans 503 m.

12. Which of these buildings has the most floors?

    1. Chifley Tower
    2. Q1 Tower (Surfers Paradise)
    3. Australia 108
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    Answer: C. Australia 108
    Chifley Tower (53) · Q1 Tower (Surfers Paradise) (78) · Australia 108 (100)

13. Which of these animals is the heaviest?

    1. Common kingfisher
    2. Hawaiian monk seal
    3. Emu
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    Answer: B. Hawaiian monk seal
    Common kingfisher (40 g) · Hawaiian monk seal (200 kg) · Emu (35 kg)

    💡 It is Hawaii's official state mammal and one of the rarest seals in the world.

14. Which of these was completed most recently?

    1. Royal Palace of Tonga
    2. Adelaide Oval
    3. Flinders Street Station
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    Answer: C. Flinders Street Station
    Royal Palace of Tonga (1867) · Adelaide Oval (1873) · Flinders Street Station (1909)

    💡 'Meet me under the clocks' is a famous Melbourne saying about its entrance.

15. Which of these animals is the heaviest?

    1. Nene
    2. Australasian gannet
    3. Yellow-eyed penguin
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    Answer: C. Yellow-eyed penguin
    Nene (2 kg) · Australasian gannet (2.3 kg) · Yellow-eyed penguin (5.5 kg)

    💡 One of the rarest penguins, it appears on New Zealand's five-dollar note.

16. Which of these is a mammal?

    1. Central bearded dragon
    2. New Zealand sea lion
    3. Rainbow lorikeet
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    Answer: B. New Zealand sea lion

    💡 It is one of the rarest sea lions in the world, and females sometimes wander into forests far from the sea.

17. Which of these structures is the tallest?

    1. Shrine of Remembrance
    2. ChristChurch Cathedral
    3. Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre
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    Answer: B. ChristChurch Cathedral
    Shrine of Remembrance (30 m) · ChristChurch Cathedral (63 m) · Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre (28 m)

    💡 Its spire collapsed in the February 2011 earthquake.

18. Which of these buildings has the most floors?

    1. RAA Place (Westpac House)
    2. Telstra House (30 Pirie Street)
    3. Australia Square Tower
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    Answer: C. Australia Square Tower
    RAA Place (Westpac House) (31) · Telstra House (30 Pirie Street) (23) · Australia Square Tower (50)

19. Which of these structures is the tallest?

    1. Rialto Towers
    2. Sky Tower
    3. Aurora Place
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    Answer: B. Sky Tower
    Rialto Towers (251 m) · Sky Tower (328 m) · Aurora Place (218 m)

    💡 Its SkyJump lets people leap from 192 m up the tower.

20. Which of these is a mammal?

    1. Frill-necked lizard
    2. Hector's dolphin
    3. Weedy seadragon
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    Answer: B. Hector's dolphin

    💡 One of the smallest dolphins, it lives only in New Zealand and has a rounded fin like a mouse ear.

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