Australian film and TV shows quiz

David Whitley,

This quiz tests your knowledge of the films and TV shows that Australia has given to the world, paying particular attention to the places featured within them. From Bluey to Dead Calm, consider this your test of Down Under culture.

Australian film and TV shows quiz

This quiz tests your knowledge of the films and TV shows that Australia has given to the world, paying particular attention to the places featured within them. From Bluey to Dead Calm, consider this your test of Down Under culture.

1 / 10

Which 2014 horror film was mainly filmed in suburban Adelaide?

2 / 10

Which Australian city is cartoon hit Bluey set in?

3 / 10

Dead Calm, a tense 1989 thriller shot around Queensland’s Whitsundays Islands, gave which Australian actress her first lead movie role?

4 / 10

Which internationally famous – but fictional – Australian street’s real life location is Pin Oak Court in Vermont South, Victoria?

5 / 10

In Silverton, outback New South Wales, there is a small museum devoted to a movie sequel filmed nearby. Which movie is it?

6 / 10

What name does Sydney’s Palm Beach go by in long-running soap Home and Away?

7 / 10

2000 film the Dish chronicles the efforts of the Parkes Observatory in New South Wales’ efforts to share footage of what with the world?

8 / 10

The Walkabout Creek Hotel in McKinlay, Queensland, became famous courtesy of which 1986 film?

9 / 10

Which controversial reality TV show is based at the Skye Suites in Sydney?

10 / 10

1996 Philip Noyce movie Rabbit-Proof Fence follows three Aboriginal girls as they walk back to their home along 2,400km of the titular fence. In which Australian state is the Rabbit-Proof Fence?

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The average score is 72%

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