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Exploring New South Wales: A Quiz on Australia's Premier State

Test your knowledge about New South Wales, its history, geography, and culture with this engaging quiz.

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1 What is the capital of New South Wales?

2 He was replaced by ________, who remained Premier after being re-elected in the March 2007 state election, until he was replaced by Nathan Rees in September 2008.

3 What is the full name of New South Wales?

4 What is the highest point in New South Wales?

5 Originally named The National Park until 1955, this park was the second National Park to be established in the world after ________ in the U.S.

6 What is the motto of New South Wales?

7 What are people from New South Wales known as?

8 What timezone is New South Wales in?

9 What is New South Wales's nickname?

10 What was the size of the New South Wales?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland both set rainfall records in 1950.
  • the Court of Civil Jurisdiction was the first civil court established in New South Wales, Australia.
  • the New South Wales Court of Arbitration is claimed to be the first court devoted to resolving labour disputes in the world.
  • in New South Wales, a Sentencing Council which is the first of its type in Australia, conducts research to improve the consistency of sentencing of criminals.
  • the Tuggerah Lakes (pictured), located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, cover a total area of 77 square kilometres yet have an average depth of less than two metres.
  • in 1851, Jackey Jackey, a young Aboriginal Australian, was awarded a specially engraved silver breastplate for heroic deeds by the then-Governor of New South Wales.
  • the Governors Court in New South Wales had a rule barring ex-convict lawyers from appearing before it, but all of the lawyers in the penal colony were ex-convicts.
  • the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company carrying passengers and freight from Sydney to the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, between 1850 and 1955, was known as the 'Pig and Whistle line' because it was said that the fleet ships would wait an hour for a pig but not a minute for a passenger.
  • the view atop Mount Kaputar in Mount Kaputar National Park, Australia, encompasses about 1/10th of New South Wales.
  • unlike their peers in other Australian states, physiotherapists in New South Wales are subject to discipline by a special Physiotherapists Tribunal.
  • the rarely seen Rufous Scrub-bird occurs on Mount Banda Banda in New South Wales, Australia.
  • the butterfly Argynnis hyperbius has been threatened in New South Wales by the draining of swamps containing its natural foodplant Viola betonicifolia.
  • the Nurses and Midwives Tribunal of New South Wales can order the suspension or removal of a nurse or midwife from practice.
  • the USS Cobbler (SS-344) was a Balao-class submarine, in the United States Navy named after a cobbler, the killifish of New South Wales.
  • Silma Ihram decided to found Al-Noori Muslim Primary School in Greenacre, New South Wales after Presbyterian Ladies' College would not allow her daughters to wear hijabs in school.
  • Philip Whistler Street was a Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia -- as were his son Kenneth and his grandson Laurence.
  • Currambena School student David Heilpern went on to become one of New South Wales' youngest magistrates and Southern Cross University's Alumnus of the Decade.
  • bear's ears grow on the ground in New South Wales.
  • Bess Thomas, a former Australian librarian, became the first female to be given the position of "Chief Librarian" in New South Wales.
  • Ukrainian naturalist, lecturer, artist and author John Lhotsky was credited as the first discoverer of gold in New South Wales.
  • chief justice Frederick Richard Jordan once decided that the government of New South Wales had "no business" refusing a water irrigation licence just because the applicant was Italian.
  • New South Wales Chief Justice Sir Leslie Herron was Australian Father of the year.
  • Frederick Garling was the second solicitor admitted to practice in the Australian state of New South Wales.
  • Frederick Matthew Darley was offered the position of Chief Justice of New South Wales, Australia, twice, and that he refused it the first time as he would earn less money than if he continued to practise as a barrister.
  • Mark Gosling served for almost two years as Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, despite having only a primary education.
  • Merv Wood, a single sculls gold medallist and the only person to twice be Australian flagbearer at the Summer Olympics, later became the Police Commisioner of New South Wales.
  • Julian Salomons was the only chief justice in New South Wales to resign before he was sworn into office.
  • John Wylde (1781-1859) at one time filled the post of Deputy Judge Advocate of New South Wales, where he effectively had to simultaneously perform the roles of committing magistrate, public prosecutor and judge.
  • cheese trees grow in New South Wales and Queensland.
  • Australian cricketer Alyssa Healy (pictured) was the first girl to play among boys in the private schools' cricket competition in New South Wales.
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