Australian History

[Nugget]

Box Jellyfish?

 

[AU Fever]

Funnel web spider

 

[Nugget]

Wouldn't that be classified as an inspect?

 

[AU Fever]

Nugget, technicall speaking insects have 6 legs, spiders have 8 and are classed as arachnids.

Au

 

[Nugget]

I see, thanks for the clarification AU.

 

[mando1463]

The Taipan or "fierce snake"

 

[Pr2cv]

Blue ring octopus

Geography cone shell (conus geographis)

 

[Ramjet]

John Howard? Small, lethal....

 

[the duck]

nugget is the closest, same family, a lot smaller
Its venom is 100 times more potent than a cobra, and 1000 times more potent than a tarantula and named after an aboriginal tribe

 

[Pr2cv]

Red back Spider

 

[headbut]

Irukandji

 

[the duck]

Correct the worlds most painful sting after it takes effect, it is smaller than a 2 dollar coin and completely see through with 4 tenticles

 

[Nugget]

Cool, give me a little bit and I'll try and come up with something.

 

[Nugget]

Just a bit of info on the European Honey Bee.

As with European wasps, the 1.5cm European honey bee, as unassuming as its seems, is highly dangerous to those who have allergies to their venom. Unlike wasps, however, bees leave their stinging barb inserted in their victim, along with a sack of venom. This detaches from the bee, killing it. Native Australian bees are much smaller and often don't sting unlike the introduced species. Allergies to the venom are responsible for more annual average deaths than sharks, spiders or snakes separately. Less than three per cent of Australians are allergic to bee or wasp venom.

Source: http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/view-image.htm?index=2&gid=12307

 

[todaystheday]

I hear that the Male Platypus sting is the most painful even more then the Irukandji. Don't know who would be willing to test that one.

Is what i'v heard correct, has any one else heard about the sting from a male Platypus?

 

[Nugget]

OK guys here it is. It'll most likely be an easy one for you history buffs but it's all I've got at this time :lol:

The Australian flag was designed as a result of how many competitions? AND how many winners was there AND what was the total combined prize pool?

 

[Ramjet]

2 competitions.Five almost identical entries were chosen as the winning design, and their designers shared the 200 (2009: $25,000) prize money. They were Ivor Evans, a fourteen-year-old schoolboy from Melbourne; Leslie John Hawkins, a teenager apprenticed to an optician from Sydney; Egbert John Nuttall, an architect from Melbourne; Annie Dorrington, an artist from Perth; and William Stevens, a ship's officer from Auckland, New Zealand. The five winners received 40 each

 

[Nugget]

Spot on Rod. I knew it wouldn't take long for one of you guys to answer.

Your go.

 

[Ramjet]

Thanks Nugget.
Which international sport was invented here in the beautiful Hunter Valley?
Dates n location if ya clever enough

 

[mando1463]

Wine drinking