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Exploring Adelaide: A Quiz on Australia's City of Churches

Test your knowledge about Adelaide, its timezone, climate, and cultural significance through this engaging quiz.

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1 What timezone is Adelaide in?

2 What state is Adelaide associated with?

3 What timezone is Adelaide in during daylight savings?

4 Who played in the movie Adelaide?

5 Adelaide has a hot-summer ________ (Köppen climate classification Csa), where most of the rain falls in the winter months.

6 Among their unique customs were burn-offs (controlled ________) in the Adelaide Hills which the early Europeans spotted before the Kaurna people were pushed out by settlement.

7 Adelaide hosts the Tour Down Under bicycle race, the largest cycling event outside Europe and the first event outside Europe with ________ status.

8 What role did Philippe Leroy play in the movie Adelaide?

9 What role did Francesco Bonelli play in the movie Adelaide?

10 What role did Agnese Nano play in the movie Adelaide?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Adelaide O-Bahn is a guided busway in Australia that runs from Adelaide CBD to the Tea Tree Plaza shopping centre in Tea Tree Gully.
  • the Beaumont Children disappeared without a trace from a beach near Adelaide, Australia in 1966.
  • the original capacity of Adelaide's Union Hall was chosen to be 499 because building regulations required a fire officer be present when halls with 500 or more seats were in use.
  • construction of St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide did not finish until 1996, 130 years after it began.
  • Beaumont House (pictured) was constructed for Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide and founder of St Peter's Cathedral.
  • Surveyor General William Light (pictured) initially planned to build the city of Adelaide on the banks of the Sturt River before establishing it near the River Torrens instead.
  • Ansett Airlines Flight 232 from Adelaide to Alice Springs in 1972 was the first aircraft hijacking to take place in Australia.
  • Adelaide was the first city in Australia to introduce horse trams and the last to discard them for more modern public transport.
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