Five questions about Australia – Quick Quiz

By Kay McMahon, 29 August 2011

Here are five trivia questions to see how much you know about Australia.

1. The first European landfall of Australia is attributed to whom?
2. In what year did James Cook map the east coast of Australia, name it New South Wales, and claim it for Great Britain?
3. What major economic phenomenon beginning in 1851 in Victoria eventually led to the White Australia policy?
4. What is Australia’s official national language?
5. According to the 2006 census, what was the second most followed religion in Australia?

Check your answers here!