figgles

Being way down here out of everyonescan lead to inferiority complexes. I am curious if the knowledgable people who frequent these pages could have a go at answering the following questions about your friends way down under.
1. Do you know the capital of Australia
2.The current prime ministers name?
3.We recently signed a free trade agreement with who?
4.Can you name 3 or more singers/groups who have international hits?
5.Can you name an Australian actor or director?6.Is Australia closer geographically to new zealand or to china?
7. True or false ' The population of Australia recently passed 40 million for the first time'
8.Can you name the Australian astronaut who is returning to space shortly.
9.Which is closer to Melbourne, Perth or Sydney?
10. Australia is currently playing Sri Lanka in which sport?

rockzilla

I'll give it a shot

1 - Canberra
2 - ???
3 - I'm gonna guess New Zealand
4 - Jet, INXS, Silverchair
5 - Does Mel Gibson count? If not, I say Yahoo Serious.
6 - New Zealand
7 - True - If the population isn't there yet, it must be awfully close
8 - ???
9 - Sydney, Perth's all the way on the other side of the country.
10 - Cricket?

tuffrr

Not bad - pretty close on most of those answers. I won't give anything away though yet.
Theres an amusing show on over here called CNNNN which often takes the piss of Americans. They did a skit once where they took an atlas an replaced the names of Australia and New Zealand with stuff like North and South Korea etc. It was amazing how many americans didn't think twice.

Oh and by the way - we don't ride kangaroos to school!!!!!!!

Dil

You dont Tuffrrr??? I do :P

namakenezumi

Hmm... personally I would raise the question of Mel Gibson's actual place of birth and query whether Yahoo Serious should be disqualified on the grounds of taste... now if only we could establish that Peter Jackson had visited here some time in the distant past then I'm sure we would be crowing from the rooftops that he is really deep-down an Australian...

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Spartak

I'll give this a shot

1. Do you know the capital of Australia
Canberra
2.The current prime ministers name?
John Howard
3.We recently signed a free trade agreement with who?
If you can call it a free trade agreement.... you signed something with the USA allright
4.Can you name 3 or more singers/groups who have international hits?
INXS, Kylie, Acca Dacca
5.Can you name an Australian actor or director? Well.. Rusell Crowe is technically a Kiwi... so Naomi Watts will do.
6.Is Australia closer geographically to new zealand or to china?
NZ, imo.
7. True or false ' The population of Australia recently passed 40 million for the first time'
F
8.Can you name the Australian astronaut who is returning to space shortly.
Pass
9.Which is closer to Melbourne, Perth or Sydney?
Sydney
10. Australia is currently playing Sri Lanka in which sport?
Cricket, innit ?

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djtestudo

Without reading the rest of the thread...
1. Do you know the capital of Australia
Canberra
2.The current prime ministers name?
John Howard still?
3.We recently signed a free trade agreement with who?
No clue
4.Can you name 3 or more singers/groups who have international hits?
Ditto
5.Can you name an Australian actor or director?
Does Mel Gibson count?
6.Is Australia closer geographically to new zealand or to china?
New Zealand[/b]
7. True or false ' The population of Australia recently passed 40 million for the first time'
False
8.Can you name the Australian astronaut who is returning to space shortly.
No
9.Which is closer to Melbourne, Perth or Sydney?
Sydney
10. Australia is currently playing Sri Lanka in which sport?
Cricket

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Church

1. Do you know the capital of Australia
- Sydney

2.The current prime ministers name?
- John Howard

3.We recently signed a free trade agreement with who?
- USA

4.Can you name 3 or more singers/groups who have international hits?
- AC/DC, Air Supply, Olivia Newton John

5.Can you name an Australian actor or director?
- No

6.Is Australia closer geographically to new zealand or to china?
- China?

7. True or false ' The population of Australia recently passed 40 million for the first time'
- False

8.Can you name the Australian astronaut who is returning to space shortly.
- Andy Thomas?

9.Which is closer to Melbourne, Perth or Sydney?
- Perth

10. Australia is currently playing Sri Lanka in which sport?
- Cricket

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Now that that's over, I have a few questions for you.

1. How many crocodile teeth do you have on your hat, and if the answer is none, do you have one around your neck at least?

2. Can you hit a can with a stone with your eyes closed?

3. How many crocodiles have you killed?

4. Do you have kangaroo traps on your lawn?

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Sleepyjack

err, most have already been. Although, the population for Australia is about 20 million at the moment

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1. How many crocodile teeth do you have on your hat, and if the answer is none, do you have one around your neck at least?
None

2. Can you hit a can with a stone with your eyes closed?
Maybe?

3. How many crocodiles have you killed?
None

4. Do you have kangaroo traps on your lawn?
No

Now some quickies for Americans:
1. How many times have you been shot?

2. How many times have you been robbed?

3. How many times has your car been stolen?

4. How many cars have you stolen?

heh, in year 7 we had an American assistant teacher, and we were asking the same stupid questions

Church

You'll have you get an American to answer those for you, now won't ya, eh?

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n0nsensical

I just have to say, Australian Rules Football may be the greatest sport ever. Also, I've eaten vegemite.

Mephisto2

I'm afraid that Melbourne is SIGNIFICANTLY closer to Sydney than Perth.



Hey, I'm not even an Australian. I just live here...


Mr Mephisto

PS - Australian Rules Football is a bastardization of Gaelic football... don't even get me started!

jwoody

I'm answering before I've seen other's answers (and no googling either).


1. Do you know the capital of Australia?

Perth.

2.The current prime ministers name?

Bob Something.

3.We recently signed a free trade agreement with who?

Not a clue.

4.Can you name 3 or more singers/groups who have international hits?

Kylie Minogue, Men At Work, INXS, Danni Minogue, Peter Andre.

5.Can you name an Australian actor or director?

Russel Crowe, Nicole Kidman, Jason Donovan.

6.Is Australia closer geographically to new zealand or to china?

New Zealand.

7. True or false ' The population of Australia recently passed 40 million for the first time'

False.

8.Can you name the Australian astronaut who is returning to space shortly.

No.

9.Which is closer to Melbourne, Perth or Sydney?

Sydney (that was a guess)

10. Australia is currently playing Sri Lanka in which sport?

Cricket.

platypus

The Canucks do the same thing. They get a big kick out of
tripping up Americans with questions regarding the capital of
Saskatchewan or moose-milking holidays. Thing is, they could
ask about US history or geography and get as many wrong
answers. Hell, we've got fifty frickin states and capitals of our
own to remember.

When I was in school, aside from a little European history, the
geography and history of other countries was hardly touched.
Not sure how it is today, but I suspect it's no better.

We are left with only our news and current events sources,
most of which are concerned only with which movie stars are
boinking or the latest Hollywood mutual masturbation ceremony
(Oscars, etc.).

Most of what I've learned about other countries has come from
actually travelling there.

Oh, and...

Canberra
John Howard
USA
Screaming Jets,The Church,Hunters And Collectors
Peter Weir
New Zealand
Nope, 20 million
Andy Thomas - looked this up but, hey, now I know
Sydney
Cricket

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