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Quiz on Indigenous Australians: History and Culture

This quiz explores various aspects of the history, population, and cultural significance of Indigenous Australians, testing knowledge through multiple-choice questions.

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1 Which of the following are related to Indigenous Australians?

2 What is the population of Indigenous Australians?

3 Others, such as Pemulwuy, ________, and Windradyne, became famous for armed resistance to the European settlers.

4 Anangu in northern South Australia, and neighbouring parts of Western Australia and ________

5 [29] In 1982, ________ became Captain of the Australian National Rugby Union Team, the Wallabies.

6 They are believed to be the last uncontacted tribe in ________.

7 Koori (or Koorie) in ________ and Victoria (Victorian Aborigines)

8 What region does Indigenous Australians belong to?

9 What is the metropolitican population of Indigenous Australians?

10 In 1971, Neville Bonner joined the ________ as a Senator for Queensland for the Liberal Party, becoming the first Indigenous Australian in the Federal Parliament.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • it took 59 years and a legal battle through the High Court of Australia for the Warumungu, a group of Indigenous Australians, to regain their land claim.
  • at least 20,000 Indigenous Australians and between 2,000 and 2,500 Europeans are estimated to have been killed in the Australian frontier wars.
  • Women of the Sun was the first Australian television series to portray the lives of Aboriginal women in 19th-century Australia.
  • the Aborigines regarded the corms of the Bulbine Lily (pictured) as the sweetest of the Australian lily-like plants to eat.
  • the 1963 Federal Election in Australia was the first election where all Indigenous Australians could vote.
  • the Tingari cycle in Australian Aboriginal mythology embodies a vast network of Aboriginal Dreaming songlines that traverse the Western Desert region of Australia, and is frequently the subject of Aboriginal Art.
  • the Kunjin virus, which can be transmitted by mosquitoes and may cause encephalitis in humans, is named for an Indigenous Australian clan living near where the virus was first isolated.
  • One Night the Moon, a 2001 Australian film depicting the search for a missing child, was inspired by indigenous police tracker Alex Riley's work in the 1930s.
  • Smoky Bay in South Australia was named so after the discoverer noticed large plumes of smoke from fires lit by the area's aboriginal people.
  • Indigenous Australian actor Brandon Walters had never heard of Nicole Kidman or Hugh Jackman when he signed on to co-star with them in Australia.
  • Indigenous Australian activist Robert Bropho won a case in the High Court of Australia challenging the redevelopment of Perth's Swan Brewery.
  • Indigenous Australian artist and illustrator Bronwyn Bancroft was the first Australian fashion designer invited to show her work in Paris.
  • Blanche Cave, in Australia's Naracoorte Caves National Park, used to exhibit an indigenous man's mummified remains, which were stolen in 1861 and never returned.
  • Robin Miller was a female Australian pilot and nurse who borrowed money to buy a Cessna 182 and then began flying to remote outback areas in Western Australia to vaccinate Indigenous Australian children against polio and thus became known as the "Sugarbird Lady".
  • James Wandin, the first Australian Rules footballer of aboriginal descent to play with St Kilda Football Club, was also the tribal leader of the Wurundjeri people.
  • Australian basketball player Patrick Mills is only the third Indigenous Australian male to ever play for his country's national team.
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