Quiz
Let's get quizzical
Be a star at your next trivia night! Answers to these questions can be found on a Canberra Tracks sign.
- What is Byalagee known as today?
- Who said:
- "And then, when these birds nested, the food of the tribe was doubled and right at their door."?
- "We told them not to build that lake there. They buried a big part of our ancestry with that water..."?
- Who in 1831 wrote a description of a corroboree that took place at Tuggeranong Homestead?
- How did Onyong meet his death?
- Which bushranger lived in the Tharwa area around the same time as Onyong?
- Where have archaeologists excavated to date Aboriginal presence there to 21,000 years ago?
- Besides Duntoon Dairy, name seven buildings built by the Campbell family.
- The Blundells were tennant farmers. How did 16 year old Florrie die and where is she buried?
- What did Ada lose on her way to school at St John's?
- Who wrote in 1844: "The Limestone Natives are a fine, stout, athletic race, men and women well proportioned and finely limbed"?
- How many convicts were assigned to Murray at Yarralumla?
- William Wright was the first of about 30 people to be buried at Lanyon. How did he die?
- Canberra Land Axis, View from the summit of Mount Ainslie was painted by Marion Mahony Griffin using materials provided to each competitor in the 1911-12 design competition. What makes this painting so remarkable?
- Cannons are towed to the summit for ceremonial gun salutes. The photo on the sign shows what being fired?
- What rock was quarried at Black Mountain?
- The Griffin Plan is made up of what three axes?
- When did the Griffins move to Australia to take up the position of Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction?
- Two photos (1910 and 2006) are compared on Mt Ainslie. What five sites are 'the same'?
- The Australian American Memorial, built in 1954, was paid for by whom?
- How did the children of the 1920s know it was 5 o'clock and time to go home?
- In the 1920s and 30s what was the only building lit up all night?
- A garden fete at Duntroon in 1887 marked what event?
- How many kilometres of hedging was there in the 1950s and who pruned them?
- Which organisation, set up in 1957, set out to continue the construction of Canberra?
- The rebuilding of the mortuary station from Rookwood into All Saints Anglican Church Ainslie needed how many semi-trailer loads to move the masonry?
- Name the four sections within Riverside Cemetery?
- When did Woden Cemetery open?
- Which pioneer family has 29 members buried at St John's Reid?
- Which two other languages appear on two tombstones at Riverside?
- Riverside Cemetery flooded in November 2012. In which other years were the four other floods?
- Street signs in Queanbeyan and Canberra remember some of those buried at Riverside. How many street signs appear of the panels?
- Who is commemorated on the obelisk within the drystone wall at De Salis Cemetery?
- The first burial at Evatt unmarked cemetery was of whom?
- Besides the endangered Tarengo Leek Orchid name the rare creature found at Hall Cemetery.
- How long is the chain measurement used by surveyors last century?
- What was the average number of artefacts found per square metre in West Macgregor?
- Who are the two artists whose work is depicted on the sign in the park on Macfarlane Burnet Avenue?
- What new rule did Woden property have when playing cricket?
- What caused Margaret McPherson enormous grief at Ginninderra Creek?
- Who was the last resident of Palmerville?
- How many pise structures are there recorded in the ACT?
- To avoid confusion Red Hill in Gungahlin is now called what?
- Who was convicted for sedition for their involvement in the Broken Hill Miners' strike?
- What was the outcome of a brawl at Crinigan's Hut in 1858?
- How many members of the Gillespie family are mentioned on the Elm Grove sign?
- The last time the Royal Canberra Show was held at Hall Showground was ...?
- Who built Parkwood Chapel in 1880?
- What happened to Ernie Gribble?
- Who operated the General Store in hall for 40 years?
- Matthew O'Brien was a champion sportsman who also played what intrument at local dances?
- What did the local children do with the inedible osage orange?
- Who was successful as a farmer on a soldier settlement block taken from the former Charnwood estate?
- Where was Rosebud Cottage first built?
- The invitation to a Pioneers' Night in 1951 contained what RSVP phone number?
- At the Gribble's race meeting, what three events entertained the punters between races?
- What was planned to cross General Legge's property?
- What is a gossan?
- Which government funded the more autonomous model of student accommodation referred to as 'egg cartons'?
- The straight-line border went between the summits of which two peaks?
- The title of the tall panel about Aboriginal heritage at Forde is ...