Australian History

[DrDuck]

Good get, Mando. People here are very well informed about Australian history. I'll have to make the clue harder next time.

Over to you.

 

[mando1463]

What crop is Tasmania the leading producer of

 

[Ramjet]

Hemp

 

[DrDuck]

I think it is opium poppies.

 

[Ramjet]

Apparently we think the Taswegians are all drug lords :lol:

 

[mando1463]

Tasmania - The island state is one of the world's major suppliers of licit opiate products. The government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate; major consumer of cocaine and amphetamines.

All your doc

 

[DrDuck]

Which Australian mammal is truly "true blue"?

 

[Sarn]

Monotremes are uniquely Australian, so using the colloquial idea of 'true blue' I am guessing it's a monotreme. Of the monotremes known to currently exist the platypus tends to have a bluish beak as well. So my guess is the platypus.

Although this is a history thread, so it's prolly something well and truly extinct.

 

[DrDuck]

That's a very good bit of reasoning, Sarn. The animal is not a monotreme, though. It is not extinct, either. The colour is not strictly blue, but is very rare on a mammal.

 

[Ramjet]

Blue Heeler?

 

[Wintersnake]

Blue whale.

 

[DrDuck]

Neither of those ones. It is a terrestrial mammal and an Australian Native.

 

[Ramjet]

Purple wallaby a true-blue species.

Purple-neck Rock Wallaby
The colour purple: the key to species status for the Purple-neck Rock Wallaby.

The Purple-neck Rock Wallaby has finally been given species status, after 77 years of having its distinctive pigment doubted by sceptical scientists.

 

[DrDuck]

Good one, RJ, I thought you would get it!

Over to you.

 

[Ramjet]

Thanks Doc . good question.

Invented by an Australian, rejected at first. Contributed to saving many lives.
What am I?

 

[Wintersnake]

Artificial Heart valve.

Think it was invented by that chinese surgeon that was murdered in his driveway in Sydney.

 

[the duck]

Black box recorder

 

[Ramjet]

The Duck has it.
The orange black box

 

[the duck]

There are a series of lakes in victorias western districts, what where they before they were lakes

 

[Pr2cv]

Extinct volcanoes