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Your Score: 60%
You got 21 correct out of 35!

I'll take my lumps and report to the cave, but I have to agree with Mackka that some of those answers are suss. :lol:

Since when has Oz been surrounded by the Indian Ocean??

Exhibit A
1610702925_sussanswer.jpg


Exhibit B- Actual range of the Indian Ocean
1610703061_indianocean.jpg


Exhibit C

verb past tense: surrounded; past participle: surrounded

be all round (someone or something).
 
Deepseeker said:
Your Score: 60%
You got 21 correct out of 35!

I'll take my lumps and report to the cave, but I have to agree with Mackka that some of those answers are suss. :lol:

Since when has Oz been surrounded by the Indian Ocean??

Exhibit A
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/13321/1610702925_sussanswer.jpg

Exhibit B- Actual range of the Indian Ocean
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/13321/1610703061_indianocean.jpg

Exhibit C

verb past tense: surrounded; past participle: surrounded

be all round (someone or something).

Yes what they said is right is wrong to that question
 
I don't wish to sound like Barry Jones on Pick a Box :playful: But I think Goldierocks would back me up on this one too.

Uluru/Ayers rock is the largest Monolith in Australia, and the world. Mount Augustus and Uluru/Ayers rock are both "Inselbergs", Mount Augustus being much bigger than Ayers rock. However, only Ayers rock is a Monolith, Augustus is a Monocline.

And the question was.....

1610709606_monolith.jpg


Tourism puffery isn't science O:)
 
Also the question about the mine in SA is wrong
Which kind of mine is the largest of its kind in South Australia?
Whilst the opals are mined by thousands of small miners but as a single mine Roxby is the largest mine which is gold, copper and Uranium in SA don't show a large open cut for an example.
 
Your Score: 88%
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You're a True Expert!

You got 35 correct out of 40! You scored better than 81% of quiz takers.

I like snakes, but I must confess that once I get out of Victoria and the eastern states they start to become a mystery to me. Think I'd have to read up and wear double gaiters before I crossed the border :argh:
 
Your Score: 63%

Almost an expert, but not quite!
You got 25 correct out of 40! You scored better than 25% of quiz takers.

How embarrassment is that, I might have to blow the opening of the cave shut.
 

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