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Question 1: Capital of which Australian state?

(A) Victoria

(B) Queensland

(C) New South Wales

(D) Tasmania

Question 2: Situated at the northern end of which bay?

(A) Port of Darwin

(B) Port of Brisbane

(C) Port of Hedland

(D) Port Phillip Bay

Question 3: Standing at the mouth of which river?

(A) The Murray River

(B) The Yarra River

(C) The Murrumbidgee River

(D) The Lachlan River

Question 4: Who was the pioneer entrepreneur who purchased 500,000 acres of land at the head of Port Phillip Bay from aboriginal elders in 1835?

(A) John Fawkner

(B) Nathan van Derm

(C) John Batman

(D) Brant

Question 5: However Batman was not the founder of Melbourne.That honour went to a settler named ___what?

(A) John Fawkner

(B) Brant

(C) John Batman

(D) Nathan van Derm

Question 6: Melbourne was chartered as a city in which year?

(A) 1840

(B) 1843

(C) 1845

(D) 1847

Question 7: Melbourne was served as the capital of the commonwealth of Australia until ___ what year?

(A) 1925

(B) 1927

(C) 1923

(D) 1921

Question 8: Can you name the most important goldfields, just outside Melbourne?

(A) Cadia Valley and Boddington

(B) Fosterville and Tropicana

(C) Ballarat and Bendigo

(D) Kalgoorlie and Ballarat

Question 9: Near the city centre there is a development which houses three theatres, a concert hall, an art gallery What is it called?

(A) The Victoria Arts Centre

(B) Ararat Gallery TAMA

(C) Ian Potter Centre

(D) Islamic Museum of Australia

Question 10: What is the name of the Art Gallery which features a dramatic stained glass ceiling by the Melbourne artist Leonard French?

(A) Islamic Museum of Australia

(B) Ian Potter Centre

(C) The National Gallery of Victoria

(D) The Victoria Arts Centre

Question 11: The Melbourne Concert Hall is home to which orchestra?

(A) Royal Concertgebouw

(B) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

(C) Vienna Philharmonic

(D) London Symphony Orchestra

Question 12: At which racecourse is the Melbourne Cup run every November?

(A) Philharmonic

(B) Concertgebouw

(C) Islamic

(D) Flemington

Question 13: Where do Melbourne’s skiers head for at every chance?

(A) Mount Buller

(B) Michael Hussey

(C) Venkatesh Iyer

(D) Cameron White

Question 14: One of the four ‘grand slam’ world tennis championships are held in Melbourne annually Where exactly?

(A) Edinburgh Gardens

(B) Freddy Rhoads

(C) Flinders Park

(D) David Mitchener

Question 15: The University of Melbourne was founded in 1853. However the city boasts two other, more recently founded, centres of higher education. Can you name them? 

(A) The Monash and La Trobe Universities

(B) Victoria University and The Monash

(C) Deakin University and La Trobe Universities

(D) Swinburne Online and La Trobe University