Australian History

[Ramjet]

Didn't need Google for that simple one.
Just a little knowledge of Oz history.
Gotta do better than that.

Ok so

Where did Alice Spring from?
Need 3 things in your answer..

 

[headbut]

W.W. Mills discovered the dry riverbed and, following it down, found pool after pool of clear water. That night he wrote in his diary, 'numerous waterholes and springs, the principal of which is the Alice Spring ,after Alice Todd, wife of Charles Todd

Orinally called Stuart , which was a further 6 kms up river

 

[Ramjet]

Ok you almost got 2 of the 3.
1 who was Alice.. Wife of Charles who was the director of telegraphs in Adelaide
2 The original name of the town... Stuart.
But 3... what was originally called Alice springs? Not the actual springs.

 

[the duck]

Alice Springs was initially the name given to the telegraph repeater station which operated from 1872 to 1932

 

[headbut]

What Duck said

The Alice Springs Telegraph Office was opened on 22 August 1872 on the very day that Patterson connected the wires between Adelaide and Darwin at Frew's Ponds. In 1874 an area of 25 square miles was proclaimed around the station as a reserve and in 1888 the new town of Stuart surveyed within its boundaries.

 

[headbut]

I think we did well RR , just to understand the question "Where did Alice Spring from"

 

[Ramjet]

Good answers guys. So who wins? Punch up to decide?
HB got 2 of the 3 so maybe his turn?

 

[headbut]

No , let Duck ask one

 

[Ramjet]

No , let Duck ask one

Coward

 

[the duck]

Ok thanks how many grains of sand were there on the 90 mile beach in victoria beach in 1967



What was Melbourne's original name going to be there are 2 answers

 

[Ramjet]

Bugger this working for a living.
Gotta sleep at night.

 

[headbut]

Batmania , Beargrass

 

[headbut]

Bugger this working for a living.
Gotta sleep at night.

So youll be gone even earlier !

 

[the duck]

well done headbutt and there was one other glenelg
All yours

 

[headbut]

Duck , my wife picked that as a question yesteday, & I didnt go with it

 

[headbut]

OK gota find one

 

[headbut]

What is the connection between a new Sydney Casino & the 1st Fleet ?

 

[AU Fever]

All the patrons left with no money

Au

 

[headbut]

All the patrons left with no money

Au

LMFAO............No

 

[headbut]

New casino is not built yet