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[其他] 考考你的记忆和对澳洲的了解程度,Take a trip down memory lane - Sun Herald (79,Sun 20 Jan 2013) [复制链接]

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Sun Herald
Take a trip down memory lane

Author: Compiled by John Langdon and Maria Paget.
Publication: Sun Herald (79,Sun 20 Jan 2013)
Edition: First
Section: Extra
Keywords: women (1),wages (1)

1 What was a hippodrome?

2 What is the women's organisation that started in Australia in 1922?

3 What calculating aid was invented by William Oughtred in 1662?

4 What was the devastation inflicted on Victoria on January 13, 1939?

5 What was tested and accepted in Australia by some states in October 1971?

6 In which city was the Titanic built?

7 Which word was removed from the Olympic Charter in 1971?

8 Which theatre is said, since 1888, to be home to the ghost of baritone Frederick Baker, known under the stage name Frederick Federici?

9 What is the first line on Mel Blanc's tombstone?

10 The American Telegraph Line of Coaches' first passenger service was on January 30, 1854, between Melbourne and which two towns?

11 When was the White Australia Policy introduced?

12 Who was murdered unexpectedly during an outdoor live television broadcast in November 1963?

13 Which cattle station was the scene of a walkoff by Aboriginal stockmen and women in 1966 protesting against working conditions and inadequate wages?

14 What was the first product to have a universal product code (barcode)?

15 Which Aborigine went to England with Governor Arthur Phillip and was introduced to King George III in 1793?

16 Which telescope started sending pictures to Earth in May 1990?

17 Richard Nixon became the first US president to visit which Communist country in 1972?

18 Who was the first actor to appear on the cover of Time magazine?

19 Which architect in 1815 made the first proposal for a bridge across Sydney Harbour?

20 Who did Princess Margaret call off her plans to marry in October 1955?

21 In which war was the Battle of Hamburger Hill?

22 Abel Janszoon Tasman explored the south Pacific on behalf of which company?

23 When Captain Matthew Webb arrived at Calais on August 25, 1875, what had he done?

24 How did the Greek philosopher Socrates die in 399BC?

25 Which Australian colony was the first to buy a warship?

26 Who was the first black actor to win a best actor Oscar?

27 After being feared dead for four years, who was found by New York Herald journalist Henry Stanley in 1871 on the shores of Lake Tanganyika?

28 Which singer was inducted into the US Army in 1958?

29 Who was the Irish dancer and actress who whipped the editor of the Ballarat Times in 1856 after a bad review?

30 Who did Ringo Starr replace in the Beatles?

31 Which Roman emperor gave his name to the month of July?

32 Which mansion was built for the Victorian pastoralist Thomas Chirnside in the 1870s?

33 Until 1931, what was the tallest building in the world?

34 In 1619, a Dutch ship brought what to British North America for the first time?

35 What is the contemporary art museum situated on the property bought by artists Sunday and John Reed in 1934?

36 George Bass and Matthew Flinders explored in two boats of the same name. What were they called?

37 In which year was Victoria the first state in the world to make wearing seatbelts compulsory?

38 The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) was fought between which two countries?

39 What was the massive audit of landholdings and livestock in England carried out by King William I and completed in 1086?

40 Which American city was named after a British prime minister?

41 Who was Victoria's first premier?

42 From which three countries did the Vikings come?

43 Between which two countries was the first international cricket match played in 1844?

44 Louise Brown, born in England in 1978, was the world's first what?

45 In which year were the first Pulitzer Prizes awarded?

46 Queen Alia of Jordan was killed in a helicopter crash in which year?

47 Kim Campbell became the first woman prime minister of which country in 1993?

48 The suburb of South Melbourne was previously known as what?

49 Which UN Secretary-General was killed in an air crash in 1961?

50 In what year did Queen Elizabeth II celebrate her silver jubilee?

51 Who was the first US president to visit Australia?

52 The Australian Parliament convened in Canberra for the first time in which year?

53 The 1987 movie Cry Freedom was based on the real-life events of which anti-apartheid activist?

54 Who was the first Plantagenet king of England?

55 Which Muslim leader captured Jerusalem in 1187?

56 Who was governor of Victoria from 1974 until 1982?

57 Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic?

58 In which year was the Melbourne Cup first broadcast on radio?

59 The Entente Cordiale was an agreement signed between which two countries in 1904?

60 Victoria's first stamps were issued in what year?

61 Who did Fidel Castro overthrow to become dictator of Cuba in 1959?

62 A crash at which airport in 1958 resulted in the deaths of many Manchester United football players?

63 Who was the second US president, serving from 1797 to 1801?

64 In 1988, which famous English jockey was stripped of his OBE?

65 Who was the first woman graduate of the University of Melbourne in 1883?

66 By which name is Louis XIV of France often referred?

67 In which year was The Age newspaper first published?

68 The two Battles of Newbury, fought in consecutive years, occurred during which conflict?

69 The poet Adam Lindsay Gordon died in which suburb of Melbourne?

70 Who became the first president of the Russian Federation in 1991?

71 For which pharaoh was the Great Pyramid of Giza built?

72 The writer Mark Twain visited Australia in what year?

73 What were the first two names of the Australian bush poet, journalist and author A.B. "Banjo" Paterson?

74 Who was president of Egypt during the 1956 Suez Crisis?

75 The world sharemarket crash of 1987 occurred in which month?

76 Who won the Nobel peace prize in 1984?

77 Geelong was proclaimed a city in what year?

78 The London skyscraper nicknamed "the Gherkin" was opened in what year?

79 Who became emperor of Japan in 1926?

80 Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday incident occurred in what year?

Compiled by John Langdon

and Maria Paget.
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好多都不懂

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晓暄 发表于 2013-1-28 14:04
好多都不懂

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