Exploring Melbourne: A Trivia Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the National Gallery of Victoria only purchased Australian artist Frederick McCubbin's triptych The pioneer after he reworked the painting to add a view of the city of Melbourne in the background.

the original specimen of the mauve splitting waxcap, a fungus from eastern Australia, found its way from Melbourne to Budapest but disappeared during the First World War.

the 2010 ANZAC Test, a rugby league match between Australia and New Zealand, was the first event to be held at Melbourne's AAMI Park.

the Jolimont Workshops, part of Jolimont Yard, were built for Melbourne's new fleet of suburban trains in 1917.

the locality of Boinka, Victoria, (pictured) which has an area population of 28 people, celebrates Melbourne Cup Day each year despite being located 496 kilometres from Melbourne.

the first shot fired by British Empire forces in World War I was targeted at the German ship Pfalz which was departing Melbourne, Australia as Britain declared war on Germany.

new evidence has revealed that Australian artist Tom Roberts painted much of his masterpiece Shearing the Rams on location en plein air, not in his Melbourne studio.

Jimmy Melbourne, who co-incidentally was murdered in Melbourne, was the first Indigenous Australian to play Australian rules football at a senior level.

Melbourne rock band The Strangers appeared on weekly television for nine years straight.

Captain (later Air Vice Marshal) Henry Wrigley (pictured) piloted the first trans-Australia flight, from Melbourne to Darwin, in 1919.

theater producer William May was inspired to create Walking with Dinosaurs – The Live Experience (pictured) after watching cranes constructing the Southern Cross railway station in Melbourne.

Frank Loughran played for the Socceroos at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, scoring a goal in the first game his adopted country of Australia ever played in Olympic soccer.

Harold Clapp's "fiendish efficiency" in improving Victorian Railways' train reliability was credited with losing Melbourne commuters "another excuse for being late for work in the mornings".

42 Australians became crewmembers of Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah (pictured) when the vessel was docked outside Melbourne.

Exploring Melbourne: A Trivia Quiz

1 The ________ are Melbournes only team in the National Basketball League although there is talk of a second Melbourne team for the 2011/2012 season.

2 Where is Melbourne?

3 What county did/does Melbourne play for?

4 What state is Melbourne associated with?

5 The ________ has six sister cities.

6 The Melbourne City Council governs the ________, which takes in the CBD and a few adjoining inner suburbs.

7 The largest of which is Christian (64%) with a large ________ population (28.3%).

8 According to the ________, Melbourne sustained the highest population increase and economic growth rate of any Australian capital city in the three years ended June 2004.

9 What timezone is Melbourne in?

10 The first Australian rules football matches were played in Melbourne in 1859 and the ________ is headquartered at Docklands Stadium.

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